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Welcome ASBNs - Health Science 310: Professor Martha Highfield

Librarian speaking to you today is Marcia Henry, Health Sciences Librarian. photo of marica henry, nursing librarian

You can email me at mhenry@csun.edu, or call me at 818.677.3012.

The URL for this webpage is http://library.csun.edu/mhenry/tipshs310.html

Assignment:

" You want to be sure that each person finds their own separate research article on the topic selected.

Make sure the articles focus very specifically on the concept you are studying. For example:

neonatal pain during circumcision OR

particular type of touch therapy in 'failure-to-thrive'infants  OR

pain assessment in the unconcious patient--(avoid the term vegetative state which is too general and not really diagnostic.   This type of focus will make your project (and life) easier.)

Meta-analysis (and it usually indicates this in the title) are VERY high quality research.  Experimental studies are next strongest--these are often called randomized controlled trials.  Correlation studies are next--these are where the researchers are describing what factors are related to the topic.  Descriptive studies are ok and they are a description of the way things are without any experimental treatment.  Meta-synthesis is good too.
Any of these are ok.

A literature reivew or a systematic review article will NOT work.  You want an article that is a report of a research study."

The goals of today's library session are:

 

PubMed Citation Display

pubmed citaiton display

Learn how to use Interlibrary Loan when CSUN does NOT own. Plan ahead -need to allow 2 weeks . Save citation information in Find text offers help with

findtext with ILL

Note the Type of Article limits:

Meta-Analysis

Randomized Controlled Trials

 

article type limits

 

 

Note MeSH Medical Subject headings

Medical Subject headings

 

 

 

 

 

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