Computer applications that Support Nursing Research Flashcards
Covers literature related to nursing and allied health
CINAHL Plus
Independent medical evidence on which to base
clinical treatment decisions
Cochrane Library
Database in biomedicine which also excels in its coverage of
pharmaceutical research
EMBASE
The world’s largest education database. Published
by the US Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and
Improvement
ERIC on EBSCOhost
Information on
measurement instruments (questionnaires, checklists, rating scale, index
measures, coding schemes etc.)
HAPI: Health and Psychosocial Instruments
National Library of Medicine’s premier
bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry,
veterinary medicine, health care system and preclinical sciences
Medline through Ovid
PubMed, a service of the National Library
of Medicine, provide access to MEDLINE citations and additional life
sciences books and databases from mid 1960s to present
MEDLINE via PubMed@UIC
Master nursing best practices with the
source for evidence-based information designed specifically for nurses
Nursing Reference Center Plus
now called APA PsychINFO. Abstract and index of Psychology
and the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine,
nursing, sociology etc.
PsycINFO
Contains information on research methods
including over 120,000 pages of SAGE book, journal and reference content
SAGE Research Methods
Contains over 20, 500 titles from 5, 000 publishers worldwide
with 49 million records, 78% with abstracts.
Scopus
Access to the Web of Science Core Collection which is
the largest citation database in science, engineering, medicine and
technology, also the social sciences, arts and humanities are represented.
Web of Science
Provides downloadable
doctoral dissertations originating from universities in the Big Ten
conference from 1997 to present
Dissertations & Theses @ CIC Institutions
This is a search engine that focuses an academic
output.
Google Scholar
Nursing and allied health
sciences scholarly journal literature
Health Source: Nursing/ Academic Edition
International literature in sociology and related
disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences
Sociological Abstracts
Searchable database of links to over 22,000 nursing-
related sites
- Nurse Portal
Includes the latest developments
in nursing research as well as the highlights in the nursing practice
National Institute of Nursing Research
Part of the American Nurses Association, this is one of
the largest sites for nursing. It includes nursing ethics, health care policy and
related matters
Nursing World
Information for nurses by nurses.
All Nurses
This search engine is all about nursing research. It
looks through journals and more to get its results. Submission of article is
also accepted.
Nursing Research
Collects and evaluates
unit-specific nurse-sensitive data from participating hospitals in the United
States and provides comparative data reports to these hospitals.
National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators
A web-based survey that companies and other organizations
use to both deliver information and collect information from
their customers or another target audience
On-line questionnaires
survey in which participants communicate
responses via the internet, typically by completing a set of
questions on a web page.
Digital polls
offer flexible, convenient and time-saving
option to learn about public opinion cost-effectively
Digital polls
Why create an online polls?
Collect lot of data with less resources
- Get feedback instantly
- Reach a wider audience
- Easy to distribute and respond
- Easy to analyze
software that helps you to create and run
professional online surveys. It is very powerful and a well known
online application.
Survey monkey
Founded in 1999 by Ryan Finley.
SurveyMonkey provides
a computer program used for accounting
and recording data using rows and columns into which
information can be entered.
Spreadsheet
was first
launched in 1968. Since SPSS was acquired by IBM in 2009, it’s officially
known as IBM SPSS Statistics but most users still just refer to it as “SPSS”.
“Statistical Package for the Social Sciences”
was created in the year 1960
and was used for, business intelligence, Predictive Analysis, Descriptive and
Prescriptive Analysis, data management etc.
“Statistical Analysis Software”.
intended to help users organize and analyze non-numerical or
unstructured data. The software allows users to classify, sort and arrange
information;
Nvivo
