Nursing, FNP, + Nurse Anesthesia

Whenever possible, I try to purchase your required textbooks electronically. Nursing and Medical texts are EXPENSIVE as you are well aware, I’m sure. So, if I can save you a few hundred dollars, I will do that. If I can’t get them electronically for one reason or another, I will purchase a print copy. Most of the time, the book cannot be checkout but it needs to be used in the library. I realize that is not very convenient; however, it does ensure the book is available in a fairly timely manner for all students.

If I am able to purchase the textbook as an eBook, I will bookmark it on the Books/eBooks tab on the nursing or PA page. In addition to textbooks, I have bookmarked direct links to various other eBooks and reference books that may be useful to you. eBooks such as Advanced Assessment (Goolsby), The Medical Interview, 5-Mionute Clinical Consult, Davis’s Drug Guide, Davis’s Comprehensive Handbook of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, Nursing Diagnosis, and more.

If you have any questions about how to use the eBooks or access issues, please contact me.

Have a great term!

Jill

I hope you had a successful term!

Now it’s time to watch some movies, read a book for pleasure, and relax. Enjoy the break. I’ll see you next term.

Jill

National Physician’s Assistant week occurs on October 6-12th. It began in 1987, 20 years after the first class of PA’s graduated from Duke University. We take this week to appreciate the contributions that Physician’s Assistants have made to the health of the nation. According to the American Academy of Physician’s Assistants, there are more the 108,500 Certified PA’s in the United States.

Historically, PA’s have been a staple in all 4 branches of the American military. They haven’t always been called Physician’s Assistants but their duties were similar to those of today’s PA’s. The first four PA candidates accepted into Duke’s PA program back in 1965 were former Navy Medical Corpsman.

Happy Physician’s Assistant Week!

Jill

The University of Detroit Mercy Library has access to many, may articles and journals that are not linked through databases like CINAHL and PubMed. To obtain the full article, you must go through the library website. I have put together a handout that will walk you through the steps to take to get to the full article.

If something isn’t clear or you need assistance, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Jill Turner, Librarian

Some databases call them “Limits”; PubMed calls them “Filters”. Filters … limits… whatever the terminology, allow searchers to restrict a search to specific criteria in their resulting articles. Filters are a way to reduce the number of articles that a search retrieves. For example, by activating the English language filter, you are telling PubMed that you only want articles that are written in English; PubMed then eliminates from your results those articles that are written in languages other than English.

There are quite a few filters that are available in PubMed: sex, publication dates, journal categories, and more. They appear on the left side of the search results webpage. Evidence based practice filters are located under the Article Types category, the first option in the left hand column. To see a complete listing of options, you must choose the Customize link. A pop-up box of Article Type options will appear.

Go through the list and choose the following options by clicking on the boxes to the left of the terms: Clinical Study, Comparative Study, Evaluation Study (for processes), Meta-analysis, Systematic Review, and Validation Study (if appropriate to your topic). By choosing Clinical Study, you will also automatically get Clinical Trial, Controlled Clinical Trial, Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial, and Observational Studies. Once you have chosen the article types, click the blue Show button at the bottom of the box. This places the Article Types in the list on the left side of the page, but does NOT activate them. You must then click each term individually to activate the filter. Once the filters are “activated”, a notice will appear above your search results.

Need help? Please ask!

Jill