As always, start your research at the Shimberg Health Sciences Library homepage

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Nursing Research
EBSCO
CINAHL
Library Hours Mon. - Fri. 730
am 1100 pm Saturday 1000
am 600 pm Sunday 1200 noon 1100 pm
Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health
Literature
Where to Find Information

• CINAHL, the primary database for scholarly
  research articles in the nursing and allied
  health literature, is a collection of over 2, 850
  journals and contains more than 1,000,000 records
  dating back to 1982. In addition to nursing, it
  also contains scientific, medical, and technical
  journals, book chapters, and dissertations.
• Our CINAHL pamphlet provides an in depth look at
  features and options. To maximize your success,
  do the following
• Sign In to My EBSCO host. You can save your
  searches and use other features. Create your own
  username and password.
• The Advanced Search provides many options to
  refine your search subject headings, text words,
  author, etc.
• Peer Reviewed is a check-box option that limits
  your search results to Peer Reviewed (refereed)
  articles. There are many limits and subsets
  options to use.
• Use the icon to access online full text
  journals available from the library.
• Search results can be printed, emailed, or
  downloaded.

Reference Hours Mon. Fri. 900 am 500 pm
As always, start your research at the Shimberg
Health Sciences Library homepage
http//www.library.hsc.usf.edu
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Direct links to the databases in this guide are
on the library homepage.
Director Beverly A. Shattuck, MS, MBA Hinks
Elaine Shimberg Health Sciences
Library University of South Florida 12901 Bruce
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PsycINFO
Get online, full text articles in PubMed! Change
the Display option from Summary to Abstract and
look for the Online/In Print icons. Also, use
the Limits feature to select Nursing Journals
from the Subsets option (see the PubMed for
Nursing guide. Use the link on the library
homepage.)
Produced by the American Psychological
Association
PsycINFO covers the scholarly professional and
academic literature in psychology and the related
disciplines of medicine, psychiatry, nursing,
sociology, education, health administration, law,
public health, and more. Original research and
journal articles, literature reviews, reports of
surveys, case studies, theoretical discussions,
bibliographies, and descriptions of tests and
apparatus are also included. Indexed materials
are selected from more than 1,300 journals as
well as book chapters and books in the English
language. Most records have abstracts.
HAPI
Health and Psychosocial Instruments
HAPI provides access to information on
measurement instruments (i.e., rating scales,
questionnaires, index measures, interview
schedules, checklists, coding schemes/ manuals,
projective techniques, vignettes/ scenarios,
tests) in the health and psychosocial
sciences. HAPI assists to identify measures
needed for research studies, grant proposals,
program evaluation, client/patient assessment,
class papers/projects, and theses/dissertations. H
API does not provide the actual instrument, but
does provide analysis, evaluation, and citations
to locating a variety of instruments.

• Questions? Study guides, tutorials, and more are
  available on the homepage links.
• Tips and Guides Searching link for
• Tutorial for using CINAHL (quick tips)
• Tutorial for PubMed
• Frequently Asked Questions link for
• Reference header
• Nursing Instruments and Nursing Theorists
• How to cite a resource (APA style guides)
• Where to find statistics
• Consumer Health
• The FAQ may also provide answers to your
  questions about Services, Computing, Books and
  Journals, and other Reference topics.

This database is a subset of Health and Wellness
Resource Center. Simultaneous Users 5 Users
This multi-source database provides access to
full text nursing and allied health journals,
plus a wide variety of personal health
information sources. 40 full-text nursing and
allied health journals.
"Virtual" Martindale's Nursing Center A
compilation of links to online nursing resources,
some free, some for sale, some are by USF
subscription. Electronic journals, Online
reference resources, and interactive courses,
databases, and tutorials.
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PsycINFO
HAPI
Produced by the American Psychological
Association
Get online, full text articles in PubMed! Change
the Display option from Summary to Abstract and
look for the Online/In Print icons. Also, use
the Limits feature to select Nursing Journals
from the Subsets option (see the PubMed for
Nursing guide. Use the link on the library
homepage.)
Health and Psychosocial Instruments
PsycINFO covers the scholarly professional and
academic literature in psychology and the related
disciplines of medicine, psychiatry, nursing,
sociology, education, health administration, law,
public health, and more. Original research and
journal articles, literature reviews, reports of
surveys, case studies, theoretical discussions,
bibliographies, and descriptions of tests and
apparatus are also included. Indexed materials
are selected from more than 1,300 journals as
well as book chapters and books in the English
language. Most records have abstracts.
HAPI provides access to information on
measurement instruments (i.e., rating scales,
questionnaires, index measures, interview
schedules, checklists, coding schemes/ manuals,
projective techniques, vignettes/ scenarios,
tests) in the health and psychosocial
sciences. HAPI assists to identify measures
needed for research studies, grant proposals,
program evaluation, client/patient assessment,
class papers/projects, and theses/dissertations. H
API does not provide the actual instrument, but
does provide analysis, evaluation, and citations
to locating a variety of instruments.

• Questions? Study guides, tutorials, and more are
  available on the homepage links.
• Tips and Guides Searching link for
• Tutorial for using CINAHL (quick tips)
• Tutorial for PubMed
• Frequently Asked Questions link for
• Reference header
• Nursing Instruments and Nursing Theorists
• How to cite a resource (APA style guides)
• Where to find statistics
• Consumer Health
• The FAQ may also provide answers to your
  questions about Services, Computing, Books and
  Journals, and other Reference topics.

Another source of full- text,
nursing and allied health articles.
Just click the Lexis-Nexis link.
Search for FULL-TEXT articles in three
areas Medical News articles from medical and
health news sources covering healthcare Medical
Journals articles from medical and health
journals covering a wide range of medical
topics Abstracts The National Library of
Medicines Medline (PubMed)