Course
objectives:
1.
Describe continuum of knowledge-based information needs in
the nursing profession.
2.
Develop tailored objectives and plan
for teaching search skills to a selected nursing audience.
3.
Plan strategies for expert searches
in CINAHL, MEDLINE, and other databases to answer client questions.
·
Compare and contrast MEDLINE, CINAHL
and Mosby’s Index/EMCARE indexing practices.
·
Select relevant bibliographic and
Internet databases for nursing questions.
·
Describe coverage of nursing
terminology in database thesauri, including basic understanding of nursing
classification systems.
Schedule:
The
objective(s) listed with each topic are introduced that week, and expanded on
in the following weeks.
Topic One: Feb. 23 – March 1, 2010
Evidence
Based Nursing Practice (EBNP) and Librarians
Get to know Moodle and each other. Discuss nursing
information needs, search services, the reference interview and teaching nurses
in your setting. Begin sharing related
resources: articles, books, tutorials, slides and handouts.
Objectives:
1.
Describe continuum of knowledge-based information needs in
the nursing profession.
2.
Develop tailored objectives and plan
for teaching search skills to a selected nursing audience.
Topic Two: March 2
– 8, 2010
Analyzing
and searching nursing questions
Review databases and Internet
resources suggested in Essential Nursing References (
Objectives:
3. Plan
strategies for expert searches in CINAHL, MEDLINE, and other databases to
answer client questions.
·
Select relevant bibliographic and
Internet databases for nursing questions.
·
Compare and contrast MEDLINE, CINAHL
and Mosby’s Index/EMCARE indexing practices.
Topic Three: March 9 – 15, 2010
Magnets
in a Haystack: Filtering Subject Search Results
Discuss limits, subsets and other features of CINAHL,
MEDLINE, Mosby’s Index and Nursing@Ovid. Discuss role of nursing Point of Care (PoC) products in the
Objectives:
4.
Plan strategies for expert searches in CINAHL, MEDLINE, and
other databases to answer client questions.
·
Compare and contrast MEDLINE, CINAHL and Mosby’s
Index/EMCARE indexing practices.
·
Select relevant bibliographic and Internet databases for
nursing questions,
Topic Four: March 16- 22, 2010
Nursespeak: Nursing’s unique vocabularies
Learn about nursing models & theories and nursing classification
systems. Plan, execute and edit search
to support nursing best practice: guideline, policy/procedure, protocol or
standard.
Objective
added to 3:
·
Describe coverage of nursing terminology in database
thesauri, including basic understanding of nursing classification systems.
Topic Five: March 23 – 29,
2010
Discuss relative
merits of key resources for nursing questions (slide summary with discussion
forum). Choose one EBNP competency and
develop simple teaching plan. Complete
an "expert search" comparing results from additional databases you
select. This may be a collaborative
search with a nurse client.
Objectives: All
For
each topic, course resources include PowerPoint 97-2003 slides, Word forms, one
or two readings and discussion, and shared slides for teaching these
concepts. We've also included a lot of supplemental material for
you to read/download now or at any time during the course or for the next 90
days. Your access to the site will continue until then. Once a
Topic has been activated it will continue to be available to you for that entire
period so feel free to come back later and review resources or discussion, ask
us questions, etc.
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