Nursing 202 Library Information

Finding Evidence-Based Resources/Studies

Reminders

• Nursing 100 and 101 folders for general search information and research process info

• nurs* for publication title• ProQuest login info in Learning Resources

Group• Start with an Advanced Search in ProQuest• Boolean operators – AND (includes terms), OR

will use either term, NOT (excludes terms)

Advanced Search

Enter terms, check “peer reviewed” (do NOT check “evidence-based resources”), and enter date. Place cursor in search bar underneath “nurs*” bar then click on “Thesaurus.”

Thesaurus

Click on the ProQuest Thesaurus

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Can browse terms, or enter terms and click “Find.”

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Check terms then click “Add to Search.” (Notice the “OR”). But first…

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Clicking on a blue linked term will show you broader terms, narrower terms, and related terms. You can also click on these for more terms. You can add these terms to your search.

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Click on yellow “note” next to term to learn about it and related terms. Can add these terms to search.

Back to Advanced Search: Evidence Based Resources

Click “search.”

Results

• Click “scholarly journals.”• To modify search, click “modify search.”

Modify Search for RCTs

• Takes you back to Advanced Search screen. • Erase your evidence based resources subject terms.• Click on Thesaurus.

Thesaurus

• Entered my term – randomized controlled trials – and clicked “Find.”

• Click on the blue term for a menu of terms to select (notice no box to check next to the term, so you must click it).

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• Click on yellow note to see what terms the term “clinical trials” is used for.

• Click box next to “clinical trials.”• Click “Add to Search.”

Back to Advanced Search: RCTs

Click “Search.”

Results

• Remember “Scholarly Journals.”

• Modify search as needed.

Questions?

Contact the Librarian.