RESEARCH TOPICS TERMS IN NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES

RESEARCH TOPICS & TERMS IN NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES • Resources: US University Databases • This will be the journey: – Learn how to access Medline Terms “Me. SH”. – Learn how to access Medline Index

First, let’s learn the steps to access USU databases: please go to our site http: //www. usuniversity. edu and select Library (1). Click on Full Text Database Nursing or any College (2). Select Academic Search Premier EBSCO(3) and register (4). 1 3 4 2 Knowledge is Empowerment • • Ask the USU librarian for ID & Password. From your USU • email to clopez@usuniversity. edu

Click Subjects and select MEDLINE – Me. SH 2015 Terms and medical terminology can be searched on this screen. It is important to go through the tutorial first. Type Chemotherapy or any disease, organ or treatment. Knowledge is Empowerment Select any of the 3 options and click “Browse”. Learned from the results, the 3 options are different.

If you have not seeing the tutorial, please take the time now. You need to know this information. Click linked term for tree view Check box to view subheadings For Agents, Cancer Chemotherapy USE Antineoplastic Agents. Then explode the term and select the subheadings. Click Knowledge is Empowerment

To limit your results, please select Full Text, Peer Reviewed, and from 2009 to present. Knowledge is Empowerment

Learn about “Pulmonary Disease” and all the possible combinations of terms, as well as the right “term” used by Medline. For example, Pulmonary disease, Use: Lung Diseases. By searching the right terms, we retrieve the right articles. For the next example the following terms were selected: Pulmonary Diseases, Chronic Obstructive AND Epidemiology Please, check box to view subheadings Click Check box for Epidemiology Knowledge is Empowerment

To limit your results, please select Full Text, Peer Reviewed, and from 2009 to present. Knowledge is Empowerment

One more example, from “Subjects” MEDLINE- Mesh 2015 type TUBERCULOSIS. let’s click the link Tuberculosis for Tree View and Explode by checking the box to select subheadings. To view results please select “Search Database” Knowledge is Empowerment

Remember to limit your results: Full Text, Pear Reviewed and by year. For more information about APA reference citations, alerts, and save searches, please go to Tutorials and open Ten tips to search EBSCO Knowledge is Empowerment

MEDLINE INDEXES: Another option to search Medline is through “Indexes”. Please open “More” select “Indexes” and “MEDLINE with Full Text”. From “Browse an Index” select Me. SH Heading (Major), please type “Browse for” Code Liver Oil or your term and select “Browse” (2). From the results, select one or more terms, please see “Records Count” (3) and add to search using “and”. Click “Add” (4) and click Search. 1 2 4 3 Knowledge is Empowerment

To limit your results, please select Full Text, Peer Reviewed, and from 2009 to present. . For more information about APA reference citations, alerts, and save searches, please go to Tutorials and open Ten tips to search EBSCO Knowledge is Empowerment

You have learned how to find your terms, and in this particular case, how to search Me. SH terms. The next step is to write the terms in the search boxes, see examples: Searching box 1 (AND) Searching box 2 (AND) Searching box 3 Lung Diseases Hispanic United States Cod Liver Oil administration & dosage Norway Children Tuberculosis Drug Therapy Latin America MESH= Tuberculosis +drug therapy * Latin America • *Note: Searching Me. SH the results are less and more relevant Knowledge is Empowerment

From the previous examples, learn how to write the terms in each box (1 -3). It is important to always remember to select the Full Text and Peer Review from “Refine your results” 1 2 3 Knowledge is Empowerment

Let me know if you need more assistance, I am always available at: The following tutorial from EBSCO may be helpful: Using CINAHL and Me. SH Headings click in the following link http: //support. epnet. com/training/flash_videos/cinahl_mesh. h tml Catalina Lopez clopez@usuniversity. edu or (619) 477 6310 Ext 2017 THANKS Knowledge is Empowerment