Library Research Tips for Principles of School Nursing Practice

Welcome Professor Martha Harmon's class

The Librarian speaking to you today is Marcia Henry, Health Sciences Librarian.

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

The URL for this library lecture is:http://library.csun.edu/people/mhenry/tipshs475.html

Assignment

"Analyze two databased research or evidence based peer
reviewed journal articles related to school nursing and/or school health.
Publication date should be within the past 5 years unless it is a classic.

Current issues are:

• substance abuse in K-12 students,
• medication administration in schools,
• child abuse & reporting,
• student absenteeism related to health,
• infectious diseases, disaster preparedness in school"

The goals of the library sessions are:

• Learn How to do Library and Internet research: determine information need, choose best resources, develop a search strategy, understand keyword and subject searching, how to use boolean operators and truncation  symbols, how to cite sources, and more.
• Learn to use CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCO) - Indexes over 3,000 nursing and allied health journals, with cited references from 1,600 journals; provides full-text access to many journals and other sources, 1937- present. [CINAHL subject headings,Citing and cited references,Peer review articles,evidence based care sheets, journal information, offers instrument search]
• Learn about Health Reference Center ( Gale) -Indexes over 900 health and allied health journals with full text articles in 686 journals, 1980-
• Learn about Education databases such ERIC (CSA)-Abstracts 775 education journals, ED reports, 1966- present and Education Full Text (Wilson) - Articles from over 550 education journals; indexing 1983-, abstracts 1994-, select full text 1996-
• Learn about Cochrane Library (Wiley) - Several evidence based medical databases, with protocols, controlled trials, and full-text reviews.
• Learn about Find text links in databases and in Health Sciences Multisearch
• Learn how to use Information Sources: Health Sciences to identify useful databases, and work with Health Sciences Multisearch to search up to ten (10) databases simultaneously.
• Register for CSUN's Interlibrary Loan
• Learn how to use the Library Catalog and the CSUN List of Electronic Journals to find books and journals on your topic.