Instructions
In Week 3 you will be submitting a 2-3 page paper that will explore the background of your issue. For paper #1 you will be defining this issue or disease using the literature. The parts of your paper should include:
- Introduction
- Definition
- Epidemiology
- Clinical Presentation
- Complications
- Diagnosis
- Conclusion with PICOT Question
If you are not on a clinical tract (NP) you will explore the issue extensively to define the problem or issue you are interested in—using these headers as appropriate.
Exploring the Literature
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Findings Features
CINAHL CINAHL is an SSU subscription-only resource that offers full text access to 336 scholarly journals and indexes over 3,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health.
Look at the Major Subject Heading in the Full Record
Use the Limits Feature: o Example:
Publication Type=Systematic Review
Try the CINAHL Heading search:
Keyword search: Limits: CINAHL Heading search: Limits:
PubMed PubMed is a free health science citation & abstracts index from the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Look at MeSH Terms in Full Record
Use the Limits Feature: o Examples: Article
Type=Meta- Analysis; Age=All Adult
Look for the open access Free articles!
Keyword search: Limits: MESH search: Limits:
Cochrane Library Cochrane Library provides access to the Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews. Full text of reviews are subscription only. Index/summaries are a public resource.
Use the Simple Search and the Advance Search Features
Allows you to search with MeSH Terms
Check out the New Reviews
Browse reviews by topic
Keyword search: Limits: MESH search: Limits:
National Guidelines Clearinghouse The National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC) is a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
Detailed search provides limits and advance search features
Browse by Disease/Condition or Treatment/Intervention
Add guidelines to “My Collection” and select Compare Guidelines to view side-by-side comparisons of principle data
Keyword search: Also browse by:
TRIP Database TRIP is a clinical search engine to locate publicly available clinical evidence.
Limit to: Systematic Reviews Guidelines-US
Keyword search: Limits:
Other Databases: