Library Information for Nursing

Looking for articles

The most important index to journals and other materials for nursing and allied health is CINAHL, the Cumulated Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. CINAHL is accessed through EBSCOhost.

Accessing CINAHL

Go to: http://proxy.chemeketa.edu/sites/go/ebsco-cin. CINAHL indexes over 1,200 nursing and allied health periodicals. To access new articles not yet included in the CINAHL database, use Pre-CINAHL by clicking on the "Choose Databases" tab at the top of the CINAHL screen. Pre-CINAHL has keyword searching only.

If you are accessing CINAHL from off-campus, you will need your My Chemeketa user name and password.

How to use CINAHL

The tutorials available here will guide you through the process of:

• using the CINAHL headings
• refining your search
• interpreting the results.

If you already have some familiarity with the database, and can access it and interpret results, you may wish to concentrate on just the CINAHL headings and on refining the search.

The search process described in the tutorials below below will work for anybody, but the instructions have been optimized for Chemeketa Community College nursing students, to supply the skills needed to find appropriate articles that fit the criteria of the program.

The audiovisual Breeze tutorials in the list below are best suited to broadband connections. If you are using a dialup connection, you may wish to use the page How To Get Started Using CINAHL Effectively, where the same information is covered in a handout. Be sure to look at the "Frequently asked questions" section for important information.

1. Using the CINAHL Headings to conduct a focused search (9 megabytes, 4 minutes, 59 seconds) Shows step by step how to use the CINAHL Headings to conduct a powerful, focused search in the Cumulated Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature.
   
   
2. Refining your CINAHL search (5 megabytes, 4 minutes, 30 seconds) This presentation teaches how to limit a search in the Cumulated Indes to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, finding only articles that have references in Chemeketa nursing journals.
   
   
3. Interpreting search results in CINAHL - (9 megabytes, 5 minutes, 58 seconds) This tutorial teaches how to interpret search results in the Cumulated Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, and how to obtain articles.

Nursing journals

Chemeketa subscribes to over 50 nursing journals. Some paper subscriptions have now been converted to electronic journals. Articles indexed in CINAHL (the Cumulated Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) have links to the full text of articles.

Some paper journals (those not on 4-hour reserve) can be requested through the catalog and sent to your local public library (See below).

To make things a little easier, here are some lists:

• All nursing journals in hard copy in the library
• Paper nursing journals you can request through the Chemeketa catalog
• All nursing journals in electronic form (Not all of the 180+ journals in this list are published in the United States)

Ovid

Chemeketa subscribes to approximately 20 nursing journals in electronic form on Ovid. You can access articles through CINAHL, or go directly to the journal from the list below. Please bear in mind that Ovid journals are licensed for one concurrent user per journal. Clicking the "logoff" link when you are done is important, as it frees the license for another user. (This link can be found in the upper right corner of the Ovid screen. ) Off campus users will need their My Chemeketa user name and password.

• AJN: The American journal of nursing
• Cancer Nursing
• CIN: Computers, informatics, nursing
• CIN Plus
• Critical Care Nursing Quarterly
• Dimensions of critical care nursing
• Holistic nursing practice
• JONA's Healthcare Law, Ethics, and Regulation
• JONA: The Journal of nursing administration
• Journal of infusion nursing
• Journal of intravenous nursing
• Journal of nursing care quality
• Journal of wound, ostomy, and continence nursing: WOCN
• MCN, The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing
• Nurse educator
• The Nurse practitioner
• Nursing 2007 [2008, etc.]
• Nursing made incredibly easy
• Nursing management (0744-6314)
• Nursing research
• Orthopaedic Nursing

ScienceDirect

Chemeketa subscribes to approximately 900 journals the Health Sciences Collection on ScienceDirect College Edition.

• American journal of infection control
• Applied nursing research
• Archives of psychiatric nursing
• Disaster nanagement & response (was International journal of trauma nursing)
• Geriatric nursing
• Heart & lung: The journal of acute and critical care
• Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care
• Journal of emergency nursing
• Journal of midwifery & women's health (was Journal of nurse-midwifery)
• Journal for nurse practitioners
• Journal of pediatric health care
• Journal of pediatric nursing
• Journal of perianesthesia nursing
• Journal of professional nursing
• Journal of radiology nursing
• Journal of vascular nursing
• Newborn and infant nursing reviews
• Nurse leader
• Nursing outlook
• Pain management nursing
• Seminars in oncology nursing

Books

Chemeketa's library has many books on nursing and related topics. Use the library catalog to search for books.

In addition to paper books, the library also has electronic books in NetLibrary. If you are accessing NetLibrary from off campus, you will need your MyChemeketa user name and six-digit password as a login.

Reference help

Please contact the reference librarian at reference@chemeketa.edu or call (503)399-5231 for assistance.

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