Here are links to some resources and tips on doing research for your paper. If you're working on this from home you'll need the quarterly username/password which can be found in WebCT.
Online Reference Books
These are good places to start to get an overview of your topic. They can give you ideas on how to focus your paper, keywords to search for articles, and other sources to use.
Gale Virtual Reference.
This database includes Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health, Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer,
HINT:
Most of the articles are under the topic as assigned to you but a few are different.
- Brain Cancer is under Brain Tumor
Alcoholic Cirrhosis is under Cirrhosis
Acute Pancreatitis is under Pancreatitis
Gestational trophoblastic Neoplasia is under Gestational Trophoblastic Tumors
MRSA is under Staphylococcal Infections
Pandemic Influenza is under Influenza
Print Reference Books
The medical library has a lot of great reference books that can help you get an overview of your topic, find some interesting facts, etc. Here are a few titles that might be useful depending on your topic.
Oncology Nursing
Library Location: Medical Library - Reference
Call Number: RC266 .O53 2001
Cancer nursing : principles and practice
Medical Library – Reference
RC266 .C356 2005
A guide to treatments that work
Medical Library - Reference
Call Number: RC480.5 .G85 2007
Essentials of psychiatric mental health nursing
Medical Library – Reference
RC440 .T689 2005
The human heart : a basic guide to heart disease
Medical Library – Reference
RC681 .P529 2007
Braunwald’s heart disease : a textbook of cardiovascular medicine
Medical Library - Reference
Call Number: RC681 .H36 2005
The encyclopedia of hepatitis and other liver diseases
Reference
Call Number: RC845 .C46 2006
Print Books
The library has books on several of the topics you've been assigned. If the book is in the Main Collection (not Reference) in Pasco let me know and it can be brought to Richland for you.
Library Catalog
Online Books
The online books through Ovid are nice because you can search for specific information and not need to read through the entire book.
Ovid Books
Articles
Articles are going to be more up-to-date than books and give you more specific information than reference sources. We recently changed our CINAHL access to EBSCOhost so to be inclusive you should search CINAHL as well as Ovid Journals.
CINAHL
Ovid Journals
Internet
You need to be careful getting medical information off the Internet but government sites can be trusted. A great site to search a lot of government websites is MedlinePlus
0 Comments:
Post a Comment