Internet Use in Daily Practice A Review of Electronic Resources for PNP Friday, September 8, 2000 -- Park City

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Internet Use in Daily PracticeA Review of
Electronic Resources for PNPFriday, September
8, 2000 -- Park City

• Jeanne Le Ber
• Associate Librarian
• Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library
• 801-585-6744
• jeannele_at_lib.med.utah.edu

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Educational Objectives

• Conference attendees will be able to
• identify online bibliographic and full text
  databases to answer clinical questions
• search for evidence-based nursing resources in
  CINAHL, MEDLINE and the Cochrane Library
• identify and evaluate quality websites of special
  interest to pediatric nurse practitioners

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Presentation Outline

• Handouts
• Access issues
• Information literacy
• Databases to answer clinical questions
• Evidence-based search strategies
• Other electronic resources
• Identify and evaluate quality Web sites
• Summary and Questions

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Handouts

• CINAHL versus MEDLINE
• Cochrane Collaboration
• Evaluation criteria for websites
• Selected websites

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Access Issues

• Free resources
• Fee-based resources
• Your library subscribes for you
• and allows proxy access from off-site
• You can subscribe individually

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Information LiteracyCommunication

• Communication
• Email
• Discussion groups

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Information Literacy -- Email
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Information Literacy Discussion Groups

• NAPNAP Practice Issues List Serve
• To subscribe, please send an e-mail with the
  subject "subscribe-practice" to
  practice_at_napnap.org

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Information Literacy Discussion Groups

• CataList, the catalog of LISTSERV lists!
• http//www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html

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Information LiteracySources of Information

• Professional
• Bibliographic and full text databases
• Subscription sources
• Associations, organizations, government agencies,
  commercial or company sites
• Patient
• Consumer Health Information Web sites
• MEDLINEplus, healthfinder

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Databases to answer clinical questions

• Bibliographic
• CINAHL
• MEDLINE

Sample citation from MEDLINE Kujdych
N. Prescribing trends in the treatment of acute
otitis media. Reining in resistant bacteria. Adv
Nurse Pract. 1999 Oct7(10)30-5. Review.
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Databases to answer clinical questions

• CINAHL
• Produced by Cinahl Information
• http//www.cinahl.com
• Nursing and allied health literature 1982-present
• Bibliographic with some full-text
• 500 nursing journal titles (1200 titles)
• Your health sciences library subscribes
• You can pay for the service
• 49.95 for 15 hours of searching

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Databases to answer clinical questions

• MEDLINE
• Produced by the National Library of Medicine
• http//www.nlm.nih.gov
• Primary source for medical, nursing, dental,
  veterinary literature
• Bibliographic PubMed does link to some full text
• 4300 journal titles indexed
• You library subscribes to a service
• Available free on the Internet

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Evidence-based search strategies

• Diagnosis
• Etiology
• Prognosis
• Therapy
• Clinical or randomized control trials
• Meta-analysis
• Practice guidelines

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PubMed for MEDLINE

• http//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
• Start with the MeSH Browser
• "otitis media/etiology"MAJR
• review, english, human, last five years

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Databases to answer clinical questions

• Full text
• Cochrane Library
• EBSCOhost
• MICROMEDEX

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Databases to answer clinical questions

• Full text
• Cochrane Library
• EBSCOhost
• MICROMEDEX

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Databases to answer clinical questions

• Full text
• Cochrane Library
• EBSCOhost
• MICROMEDEX

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Other Electronic Resources

• Electronic textbooks
• STAT!Ref
• MDConsult
• Electronic journals
• Free
• Subscription services

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Other Electronic Resources

• Electronic textbooks
• STAT!Ref
• MDConsult
• Electronic journals
• Free
• Subscription services

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Other Electronic Resources

• Electronic textbooks
• STAT!Ref
• MDConsult
• Electronic journals
• Free
• Subscription services

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Quality Websites

• Identify
• colleagues, association, reading
• bookmark or favorites
• Evaluate
• authority
• accuracy
• objectivity
• currency
• coverage

MEDLINEplus
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Summary

• Access to online tools
• email and listservs
• Access to online resources
• bibliographic and full text databases
• online textbooks
• online or electronic journals
• quality websites
• Ask your hospital or academic librarian

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Questions