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Welcome to Richter Library's Resource Guide
for Nursing and Health Studies!

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This guide is a great tool for finding information for research, collecting articles for classes, and broadening your knowledge of Nursing and Health Studies. Each tab contains current and relevent resources for assisting you in collecting the best information for your project, interest, or research. 

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Saily Marrero

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Clinical Care Databases
  • Access Medicine
    medical reference, multimedia, practice guidelines, diagnostic tests, and self assessment.
  • ClinicalKey Flex
    Reference books and journals, drug information, videos, practice guidelines, patient handouts, clinical calculators and more.
  • DynaMed
    Evidence based literature and clinical practice guidelines at 'point-of-care' Mobile device access: DynaMed homepage under "How to use DynaMed".
  • Joanna Briggs Institute Evidence Based Practice (EBP) Database
    Formulated by 40 countries, JBI provides evidence for nursing, allied health and medical professionals for clinical decision making. Check out the JBI Levels of Evidence.
  • UpToDate
    Like DynaMed (above), is an EBP tool for quickly finding medical research that is appraised and synthesized into summaries for diagnosing and treating conditions.
Research Databases
  • CINAHL Plus
    Primary index to the international literature of nursing and health.
  • Cochrane Library
    Network of high-quality information for health decision making. Includes Cochrane's Systematic Reviews, Central Register of Controlled Trials, Clinical Answers.
  • Healthcare Administration Database (Proquest Health Management )
    Resources for health administration, healthcare workers, hospitals, health law, statistics, policy, finance, management and more.
  • Joanna Briggs EBP
    Evidence Based Practice in Nursing
  • ProQuest Research Library
    Scholarly infom from 150 subject areas. It's surprising what you might find for health & nursing.
  • PsycINFO
    Premier database for psychology, mental health, and behavior & health sciences. Produced by the American Psychological Association.
  • PubMed - US National Library of Medicine, NIH
    NLM search engine of the Medline database and other biomedical and life science literature.
  • Web of Science Citation Indexes
    A large multi-disciplinary database of journal articles & conference proceedings. Includes all the sciences plus social science and arts & humanities. Also provides journal and author impact data and citation linkage between papers.
  • Embase
    Embase is a biomedical and pharmacological full text database, that includes disease and medical device data.
Visual & Physical Exam Databases
  • Bates Visual Guide to Physical Examination
    Provides clinical skills videos of head-to-toe and systems-based physical exams.
  • VisualDx
    A diagnostic clinical decision support system, combining clinical research with an image library. Includes expert help with diagnosis, treatment, self-education, and patient communication.
Drug Information
  • Micromedex
    Provides evidence based drug information and clinical answers and resources for patient and consumer education. Use Help menu for tips and tricks (upper left corner).
  • NLM Drug Information Portal
    Sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, this portal provides information on over 78 thousand drugs. For quick instructions, under the News and Features tab, select About.
  • Toxnet
    A group of databases covering chemicals and drugs, diseases and the environment, occupational safety, poisoning, risk assessment and regulations, and toxicology.
Open Access
BioMed Central
BMC is an independent open access publisher that provides 300 peer review journals about biology, medicine, simulation medicine, technology, genome science, and public health. 

EthicShare
EthicShare is for scholars in the field of ethics. Features everything from scholarly articles to blogs.

MedlinePlus
Produced by the National Library of Medicine for patients, providing reliable, up-to-date health information information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in non-technical language. Freely available.

Nurses-Medscape
Free from WebMD targeted at nurses. POC information for drugs, diseases, procedures. Medscape Mobile available for iPhone/Pad, BlackBerry, Android. See Medscape homepage for instructions
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Saily Marrero

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  • sxm1838@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-2040
Helpful Links
NAVIGATING DATABASES
Browse through our A-Z Database List

Look at Richter Library's research tutorial How-To-Videos
PUBMED TUTORIALS & VIDEOS
MOBILE APPS
For a comprehensive list of available apps go to Calder Library's Medical Mobile Apps Guide
Other Resources
COVID RESOURCES
RESOURCES ON HEALTH DISPARITIES
Books
EBOOK COLLECTIONS
USEARCH GUIDES
NURSING JOURNALS
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  • Nursing & Health Studies, Biology, and Psychology Librarian
  • sxm1838@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-2040
Directions to the Stacks
1) Go to the 2nd floor of Richter Library

2) If you're coming from the elevators go to your right. If you're coming from the stairs go straight toward the elevators across and take a left.

3) Look for the sign that says "Stacks Elevators" down the hall.
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Images: Selected Resources
  • Access Medicine
    medical reference, multimedia, practice guidelines, diagnostic tests, and self assessment.
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Public Health Image Library (PHIL)
    Available images from the CDC -- most images in public domain.
  • Harden Image Library
    Freely available; all images in public domain.
  • MD Consult
    MD Consult is an professional medical information site for academic research and clinical practice. The center is a venture of leading medical publishers including Mosby, W.B. Saunders Company, and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. The service includes full-text access to 48 leading medical journals, 35 reference works, over 600 clinical practice guidelines, customizable patient education handouts, and drug information for more than 30,000 medications
  • Parasite Image Library
    From the CDC
  • ScienceDirect
    Science Direct is a full text database offering journals and books from the leading scholarly publisher Elsevier. It has particular strengths in medicine and mathmatics, but its nine million articles cover a wide range of scientific topics. The collection stretches back to 1823 and includes prominent publications including The Lancet, Cell and Tetrahedron. ScienceDirect hosts over 2,500 journals and more than 33,000 books—over 13 million peer-reviewed publications (including Open Access journals) in science, technical information, and health. Note Nursing journals in Column 3 Health Sciences.
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  • sxm1838@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-2040
Federal Health Statistics

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL (CDC)

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH (NIH)
HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES (HHS)
OTHER RESOURCES
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  • Nursing & Health Studies, Biology, and Psychology Librarian
  • sxm1838@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-2040
Population and General Statistics

Statista is partially a business site, but it offers excellent quantitative data, statistics and demographics (US and International) and health information.

Global
Statistics from Associations
What is Evidence Based Medicine?

Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) is the conscientious, explicit, judicious and reasonable use of modern, best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. EBM integrates clinical experience and patient values with the best available research information. (David Sackett, 1997).

Evidence-Based Public Health is defined as the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of the current best evidence in making decisions about the care of communities and populations in the domain of health protection, disease prevention, health maintenance and improvement (health promotion).  It is the process of systematically finding, appraising, and using contemporaneous research findings as the basis for decisions in public health."  (M. Jenicek (1997) 

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Evidence Based Practice Databases
DATABASES
POINT OF CARE TOOLS
EBP & EBM Websites & PDFs

Some very helpful Web resources for understanding EBP, linking types of Clinical Questions to types of Design Studies. Each one includes a Critical Appraisal tab for "identifying the strengths and weaknesses of a research article in order to assess the usefulness and validity of research findings." (Medscape).

Clinical Questions, Study Design, & EBM Resource


Finding good resources involves not only selecting appropriate databases and websites, but also type of study design. Different study designs produce different levels of evidence are organzied hierarchically. See blue pyramid and note that study designs at the top, e.g., meta analysis, systematic review offer the highest level of evidence. 

Critically Examining the Literature & Appraising the Evidence
Finding and using research evidence Summary Sheet  
Guidelines in Databases
CINAHL
1) On top bar, click on Evidence Based Care Sheets and Quick Lessons type in the topic, condition, or procedure.
2) In Advanced Search, type the topic, then select Publication Type and select Practice Guidelines in the limiter section,

Clinical Key
Click on Guidelines menu next to the search box at the top. Search by organization name, specialty, or topic.

PubMed
1) Click on Additional Filters 
2) Select Practice Guidelines and it will appear under Article Type.
3) Run search and click on the Practice Guideline filter

DynaMed or UpToDate
1) Type in condition, procedure, or etc. in the search box
2) Select one of the results
3) On the left handside under Topic Outline you will find Guidelines
 
Clinical Practice Guidelines
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Saily Marrero

  • Nursing & Health Studies, Biology, and Psychology Librarian
  • sxm1838@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-2040

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