Library Session NURS 501Rachael Clemens

Agenda• Library Overview (Brochure)

• Nursing Literature >> Concept Analysis • Database Instruction (CINAHL handout)

• Obtaining Material (SFX handout)

• RefWorks (RefWorks handout)

• Citing Your Sources (APA handout)

• For Additional Reference Help

Library Guide for Nursing

http://faculty.fullerton.edu/rclemens/Nursing.htm

Assignment

• You will select a concept for potential development as a research idea

• You will analyze the concept using the method described by Walker and Avant

• Craft a scholarly paper, 7-8 pages

Concept Analysis Paper

What is Scholarly Literature?

Peer Reviewed / Scholarly Publications

Non-Peer Reviewed Publications

Journal articles (research studies, clinical, lit reviews)

More “magazine” or newspaper format

Articles are reviewed by experts in the field

Articles are not subject to such in-depth review process

Geared toward the researcher Trade: written by practitioners for practitioners

Articles typically include a reference list

Popular: written for the consumer – not the expert

Example of a Scholarly Journal

Examples of Non Peer Reviewed Publications

Nursing Trade Publications–Written by practitioners for practitioners–Focus is on the particular industry or profession

Popular Magazines–Typically written for the consumer / layperson–Don’t maintain a panel/jury of experts to review submitted articles

Newspapers

Most Websites

Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory

• Find out if a periodical is peer-reviewed / scholarly

• Databases A-Z >> Ulrich’s

Articles in Scholarly Journals

• Research

• Clinical / Best Practice

• Literature Review

Concept Analysis?

• Research Articles– Authors construct & execute a study– Empirical, quantitative, qualitative– Easily identifiable in the abstract

• Purpose/Objective/Aim of the study• Review of the related literature• Research methodology• Data collection• Conclusions

• Clinical / Best Practices Articles– Presents information for the professional clinician– May provide an overview of an issue or condition– May discuss assessment or interventions to enhance

clinical practice– Some case studies– Procedures– “This is how we did it…”

• Literature Reviews– Review (synthesizes results/conclusions of 2 or

more articles on a given topic)

– Systematic Review (attempts to identify and synthesize all the literature on a given topic)

– Meta-analysis (statistical technique for assembling the results of several studies in a review into a single numerical estimate)

Relates to Evidence Based MedicineFind in Cochrane Library

Concept Analysis1. Select a concept2. Determine the aims or purposes of analysis3. Identify all uses of the concept that you can discover4. Determine the defining attributes5. Identify a model case6. Identify borderline, related, contrary, invented, and

illegitimate cases7. Identify antecedents and consequences8. Define empirical referents

Look at sample concept analysis articles

Identifying Uses of the Concept• Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

– Traces meaning, history and usage of words– print & online through A-Z list of databases

• Gale Virtual Reference Library– Collection of encyclopedias and handbooks– Available online through the A-Z list of databases

• Library Catalog for additional dictionaries and encyclopedias

Database Instruction1. Academic Search Elite 2. Cinahl3. Health Source: Nursing Academic4. PsycINFO5. PubMed6. Cochrane Library

Pollak Library Website• www.library.fullerton.edu • RESEARCH >> FIND ARTICLES >> BY

SUBJECT >> NURSING

Sample Search• “Concept* analysis” AND nursing• “Concept* analysis” AND vulnerable

– This will bring back articles with the phrase concept analysis or conceptual analysis and the term nursing somewhere in the article title, abstract or subject headings

– Limit your search to Peer-Review

Recap1. Search several databases

• Use keywords & subject headings• Limit to scholarly / peer-reviewed

2. If full-text not immediately available, use SFX to track down article

3. May need to request material not owned by Pollak Library through ILLiad

Citing Your Sources• What?

– Tell your reader what information resources you used to help develop your thoughts and construct your paper

• Why?– To back up your claims with documentation –

strengthens your argument or points– To indicate where you got your information so that other

people can follow-up– To give credit to the original author(s)– To avoid plagiarism

Citing Your Sources• APA Style

– From the American Psychological Association– You will need to create a reference list and use

parenthetical references within the text of your paper (2 separate but related actions)

– Difference between “quoting” verbatim (requires quotation marks) and giving credit for the general gist of a thought

Elements of a Reference• Article

– Author– Year of publication– Title of article– Title of journal– Volume (also include issue number if journal is paginated by issue)– Page numbers

• Website– Author or responsible entity– Date of creation or modification– Title of webpage– Title/Name of overarching website if not clear in title of webpage– Webpage address– Date you accessed this resource

Reference List Entry - Article

Author, A. A. (Year of Publication). Title of article: Subtitle of article. Magazine/Journal Title, Volume number (issue

number if each issue begins on page 1), pages.

Clemens, R. G. (2003). Delivery library services to distance students: A case study. Reference

Services Review, 54, 32-44.

Reference List Tips• References should appear in hanging indent form;

first line at the left margin, each succeeding line of a reference entry is indented.

• In titles of books, articles, films, and broadcasts capitalize only the first word of the title, the first word after a colon or dash, and proper nouns.

• In periodical titles capitalize all major words and all words of four letters or more.

• Periodical titles should be in italic.

Parenthetical Reference Tips• If you are citing a work by a single author, use the

surname (do not include suffixes such as Jr.) and the year of publication separated by a comma in parentheses: – In a recent study of reaction time (Rogers, 1994) …

• If you have just stated the author's name in the text, put the year of publication only in parentheses: – Peplau (1985) defines loneliness as a difference between desired

and achieved social relationships.

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