Computer applications that Support Nursing Research

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Covers literature related to nursing and allied health

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CINAHL Plus

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Independent medical evidence on which to base

clinical treatment decisions

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Cochrane Library

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Database in biomedicine which also excels in its coverage of

pharmaceutical research

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EMBASE

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The world’s largest education database. Published
by the US Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and
Improvement

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ERIC on EBSCOhost

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Information on
measurement instruments (questionnaires, checklists, rating scale, index
measures, coding schemes etc.)

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HAPI: Health and Psychosocial Instruments

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National Library of Medicine’s premier
bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry,
veterinary medicine, health care system and preclinical sciences

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Medline through Ovid

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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

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MEDLINE via PubMed@UIC

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Master nursing best practices with the

source for evidence-based information designed specifically for nurses

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Nursing Reference Center Plus

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now called APA PsychINFO. Abstract and index of Psychology
and the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine,
nursing, sociology etc.

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PsycINFO

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Contains information on research methods

including over 120,000 pages of SAGE book, journal and reference content

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SAGE Research Methods

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Contains over 20, 500 titles from 5, 000 publishers worldwide
with 49 million records, 78% with abstracts.

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Scopus

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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.

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Web of Science

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Provides downloadable
doctoral dissertations originating from universities in the Big Ten
conference from 1997 to present

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Dissertations & Theses @ CIC Institutions

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This is a search engine that focuses an academic

output.

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Google Scholar

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Nursing and allied health

sciences scholarly journal literature

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Health Source: Nursing/ Academic Edition

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International literature in sociology and related

disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences

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Sociological Abstracts

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Searchable database of links to over 22,000 nursing-

related sites

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5. Nurse Portal

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Includes the latest developments

in nursing research as well as the highlights in the nursing practice

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National Institute of Nursing Research

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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

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Nursing World

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Information for nurses by nurses.

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All Nurses

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This search engine is all about nursing research. It
looks through journals and more to get its results. Submission of article is
also accepted.

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Nursing Research

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Collects and evaluates
unit-specific nurse-sensitive data from participating hospitals in the United
States and provides comparative data reports to these hospitals.

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National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators

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A web-based survey that companies and other organizations
use to both deliver information and collect information from
their customers or another target audience

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On-line questionnaires

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survey in which participants communicate
responses via the internet, typically by completing a set of
questions on a web page.

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Digital polls

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offer flexible, convenient and time-saving

option to learn about public opinion cost-effectively

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Digital polls

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Why create an online polls?

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Collect lot of data with less resources

2. Get feedback instantly
3. Reach a wider audience
4. Easy to distribute and respond
5. Easy to analyze

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software that helps you to create and run
professional online surveys. It is very powerful and a well known
online application.

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Survey monkey

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Founded in 1999 by Ryan Finley.

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SurveyMonkey provides

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a computer program used for accounting
and recording data using rows and columns into which
information can be entered.

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Spreadsheet

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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”.

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“Statistical Package for the Social Sciences”

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was created in the year 1960
and was used for, business intelligence, Predictive Analysis, Descriptive and
Prescriptive Analysis, data management etc.

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“Statistical Analysis Software”.

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intended to help users organize and analyze non-numerical or
unstructured data. The software allows users to classify, sort and arrange
information;

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Nvivo