Health & Nursing

Gold/Galileo Annual Users Group Conference

August 1, 2008

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Health & Nursing Resources

• Health Source: Consumer Edition – Consumer Health information with full text

• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition – Full text and includes Lexi-Pal Drug Guide

• CINAHL with Full Text – Comprehensive source for Nursing & Allied Health literature (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health)

• MEDLINE with Full Text – Comprehensive source for access to the biomedical research & clinical literature

• Alt Health Watch – complementary & holistic approaches to health care & wellness – includes full text

Health Source ConsumerBasic Search

Result List Narrow Results/Limit Your Results from Result Screen

Results Modified Selected Exercise (from Narrow Results)

Full Text & Date Limit (from Limit your results)

Medical Dictionary

Check off Box – Search Retrieve Results

Results from Medical Dictionary “Look Up”

Click on Term – Definition

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Search on MRSA (infectious disease)

Limited Results By Year, Full Text

Drug Look Up – Prozac

Lexi-Pal Drug Guide Record

CINAHL with Full Text Basic Screen

Basic Search - MRSA (Note: Ehost is NOT case sensitive)

CINAHL with Full TextAdvanced Search

Suggest Subject Headings Search

CINAHL Headings List of Subject Headings Relevant to MRSA

Click on Term to See Tree Views and SubheadingsSelect item(s); Click Search Database

Items selected – “Explode Term”, Major Concept, Subheadings

Results To further Refine Results use Narrow Results or Search

Options

Available Search Options(Limiters)

Reults Limited to Full Text and Age Group Limiter of “All Child”

Search History Display Above the Results List

Search Using Limiters – Leave Find Box BlankEx. Search for FT Nursing Research Articles

Search on “Limiters Alone” Results – FT Nursing Research Articles

Search Cited References “Find how many times an author has been cited in CINAHL”

Articles by LS Aaronson cited in articles indexed by CINAHL

Specific Citation – Use Fields to Identify Paper by Aaronson with “fatigue” in Title

Search Cited References to Find Additional Citations on a Subject – Ex. Service Dogs

MEDLINE with Full Text Basic Search MRSA search, limit to Human, English, FT

Narrow Results by Subject: Major Heading “Methicillin Resistance”

Use of Narrow Results by Major HeadingProvides Fewer but More Relevant Results

Alt HealthWatch Basic Search Search Mode “Find all my search terms”

Results

Alt HealthWatch Search Options – Limit to Scholarly Publications, FT

Results FT, Scholarly Publications, Date Limit

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