FINDING ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS/JOURNALS:  Periodical indexes provide the most efficient subject access to journals, magazines, and newspapers.  CINAHL (Cumulated Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) is a very important index to use.

· Go to the PLU Library Homepage (http://www.plu.edu/~libr)
· Click on “Find Articles”
· Click on “Medical & Nursing”
· Click on “CINAHL (ProQuest)”
· Near the top of the ProQuest page click on CINAHL
· A new window will open.  Click on “Search Methods” “Guided”
· Use the search form to build your search
 
 

LOCATING PERIODICALS/JOURNALS Use Journals at PLU to obtain the call number of the journal you need.  Current issues of journals are shelved on the first floor.  Older issues (bound volumes and microfilm) are on the second and third floors, shelved with the books. Journals at PLU also gives you the location of any full-text journals we have online.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

Culture & nursing care: a pocket guide (ref. RT86.54.C85x 1996)
Gale encyclopedia of medicine (ref. RC41.G35 1999 )
Historical encyclopedia of nursing (ref. RT31.S66 1999)
Intravenous medications: a handbook for nurses and allied health professionals
     (ref. RM170.G33 2001)
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia & dictionary of medicine, nursing & allied health
     (ref. R121.M65 1997)
Mosby's handbook of patient teaching (ref. RT90.C36 2000)
Mosby's medical, nursing, & allied health dictionary (ref. R121.M89 2002)
 

INTERNET:  The Internet is an attractive source of information but it does not have the best information for all situations.   Use the Internet only for supplemental information.  Read the handout "Evaluating Information from the Internet"  (http://www.plu.edu/~egbersgl/evalinternet.html) Here are some good choices:

National Institute of Nursing Research: http://www.nih.gov/ninr/
NursingNet: http://www.nursingnet.org/
Nursing Organizations: http://www.nih.gov/ninr/links/organizations.html
Nursing Theory and Research: http://www.plu.edu/~libr/web/nursingtheory.html
Statistics: http://www.plu.edu/~libr/web/statistics.html
 
 
 
 

If you have questions while doing library research, ask for help at the reference desk or make an  appointment with me for personal research assistance

 
 

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