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Getting Started

LionSearch can search for articles and more. It is a good place to start looking for information, however, pay attention to the TYPES of items you get back. There will be DVDs, movies, articles, peer-reviewed articles, magazine articles, books, e-books and more.

Nursing Databases

CINAHL (Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health)
One of two major databases for nursing and allied health journals

One of two major databases for nursing, providing references to over 1,800 nursing and allied health journal articles in addition to citations for book chapters, nursing dissertations, association publications, educational software, conference proceedings and selected full-text for state nursing journal articles, legal cases, patient education material, research instruments, standards of practice, critical paths, nurse practice acts, drugs, clinical innovations and government publications. References for alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and health sciences librarianship are also included. Coverage: 1982 - Present. Updates: Monthly.
ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Journals
Full text nursing journals

A full text database subset of CINAHL, including only 300 full-text journals that are licensed to ProQuest. Coverage is typically from 1996, with a few titles prior to that date.
Nursing Reference Center Plus
Point-of-care resource intended for staff nurses, nurse administrators, nursing students, nurse faculty, and hospital libraries

Nursing Reference Center (NRC) is a point-of-care resource intended for staff nurses, nurse administrators, nursing students, nurse faculty, and hospital librarians. It delivers the best available and most recent clinical evidence and knowledge on conditions and diseases via a nursing-specific graphical interface. NRC is accessible from a patient’s bedside, nursing station, kiosk, office, or home.
DynaMed Plus
Great for Evidence Based research

DynaMed is a clinical reference for use at the point-of-care. Clinically -organized summaries for more than 3,200 topics. Updated daily. Synthesis of the best available evidence.
Essential Evidence Plus
Essential Evidence Plus is an evidence-based,point-of-care clinical decision support system and more

Essential Evidence Plus is an evidence-based,point-of-care clinical decision support system that gives access to over 13,000 topics, guidelines, abstracts, and summaries. It also includes diagnostic test calculators, EBM guidelines, Derm Expert Image System, NGC Practice Guidelines, drug safety alerts, anatomy illustrations, ICD-9 Codes,and free CMEs.
Natural Medicines
Brand name product ingredients available giving a summary of safety, effectiveness, drug interactions, and adverse effects plus interaction and effectiveness checkers.

The Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database provides the most comprehensive listing of brand name product ingredients available giving a summary of safety, effectiveness, drug interactions, and adverse effects. Other clinical tools include a drug interaction checker and an effectiveness checker. Over 1,100 profiles of natural ingredients are included as well as Canadian licensed natural health products and herbal fixed combination products.
PsycINFO (via ProQuest)
Psychology coverage but includes aspects of nursing and pharmacology

PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Unrivaled in its depth of psychological coverage and respected worldwide for its high quality, the database is enriched with literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Nearly all records contain nonevaluative summaries, and all records from 1967 to the present are indexed using the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.
PubMed (Medline)
PubMed is a web interface that allows you to search MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine's premier database of citations and abstracts for biomedical research articles.

PubMed is a web interface that allows you to search MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine's premier database of citations and abstracts for biomedical research articles. The core subject is medicine, but subject coverage also includes bioethics, biology, chemistry, dentistry, environmental health, genetics, gerontology, health care planning and administration, history of medicine, hospital administration, microbiology, nutrition, nursing (International Nursing Index), physiology, pre-clinical sciences, public health, sports medicine, veterinary medicine and zoology. MEDLINE covers over 4,800 journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. The database contains over 15 million citations dating back to 1950. Coverage is worldwide and updated weekly. Learn more about PubMed at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/pubmed.html. or Try the Tutorial at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m1001.html

Researching Evidence Based Articles

Using the databases listed above, the best way for researching for both evidence based practices and randomized clinical trials on your topic.

To do this, please use the following options

LionSearch:

Make sure to put the phrases you use in quotation marks
Example: "rotator cuff tears" and "physical therapy" and " evidence based practice" and "randomized trial"

CINAHL ADVANCED SEARCH Instructions:

Scroll down to see all options
Make sure to check "Evidence-based practice"
Go back to the search boxes at the top and do your search, ex: "rotator cuff tears" and "physical therapy"

Proquest Nursing and Allied Health ADVANCED SEARCH Instructions

First search box, type in the injury, ex: "rotator cuff tears"
Second search box, type "evidence based practice"
Third search box, type "physical therapy"

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Getting Started

Nursing Databases

Researching Evidence Based Articles