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What's on this page

Exercise 1: Find a specific document on the Web

Exercise 2: Find articles that are case studies

Exercise 3: Find PowerPoints

Exercise 4: Find tutorials

Exercise 5: Find quality Web sites & find & transfer an image

Credo reference

Blinkx

How to get to these exercises on the Web

This Doing Nursing Research exercise is on the Internet.

  1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Web Resources by Subject
  2. Click on Nursing
  3. Under Course-Related Materials, click on Doing Nursing Research for Nursing Students
  4. Make this page a Favorite (Click on Favorites on the top tool bar and then Add) (I may have done this already for you. Click on Favorites to see!)

Open a Word document. Put your name at the top and the date, right justified. Type Doing Nursing Research as your heading, bold it, and center it. Number the exercises. Click to see an example. As you do these exercises, you will be going back and forth between the Web and your Word document.

This case provides background for your tasks on this exercise:

A client is concerned about managing persistent pain. She has osteoarthritis. She is 68. Since walking exacerbates the pain she feels, she hasn't been exercising much. You want to work with her to develop a better approach to managing the pain.
Exercise 1 Evidence-based nursing integrates the best research evidence available with clinical expertise and patient values to make sound clinical decisions. Increasingly, nurses have to know how to identify quality sources of evidence to use. The National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) is a federal government Web site that provides a large database of evidence-based clincial guidelines.

On the Web, find the Guideline with the title Persistent Pain Management.

In your Word document, summarize what the guideline says about assessing the impact of pain on physical functioning in older adults. If the intensity of pain can be reduced by 25%, what kind of an improvement can be expected? What type of supporting evidence is noted for this?

Having trouble? Check out our Hints page for Exercise 1.

Exercise 2 For a presentation to your fellow students, you would like to find some articles in nursing or medical journals about pain in osteoarthritis that are case studies and are available full text. In your Word document, write a correctly formatted APA citation for one of the articles you find.

Having trouble? Check out our Hints page for Exercise 2.

Exercise 3 You've been asked to put together a presentation on pain management, or pain control, for osteoarthritis. To get some ideas, you would like to see some recently created PowerPoints available on the Web about the topic. Find several. In your Word document, note the titles of two of the PowerPoints and give their complete URLs.

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Exercise 4 In your reading, you run across a reference to the Patient Education Institute and the fact that they have education materials written for patients. You'd like to see some examples. Find the Patient Education Institute; look at/listen to one or more of the sample Tutorials or Presentations. On your Word document, note the title of what you found, and, having explored it, tell us what you think of its quality.

Having trouble? Check out our Hints page for Exercise 4.

Exercise 5 You want to give your client a list of quality Web sites for managing pain in osteoarthritis. a) Find 3 - 5 good sites. In your Word document, list their titles, their complete URLs, and write a short comment about each. b) Find a good image that illustrates osteoarthritis; add it to your Word document and credit its source.

Having trouble? Check out our Hints page for Exercise 5.

Just a few more things you'll want to be sure to know about.

Credo is a reference tool available online from the Library home page. It gives you access to multiple nursing and medical dictionaries. If you already used this in Exercise 1, and remember how to use it, it's okay to skip this section.

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Articles and Databases
  3. Click on Databases A-Z, then click on Credo reference
  4. Click on Advanced Search. Look at the lower part of the screen, under Limit your search to... Note how you can narrow your search to specific subjects (e.g. medicine), or use a number of other ways to narrow your search

    One lovely feature of Credo reference is that it will format citations for you! Look up something, scroll to the bottom, and note how it offers APA Syle, Chicago, Harvard, and MLA citation formats. Nifty!

Blinkx is a source of a gazillion videos. Seriously! Go to Blinkx and look for videos about osteoarthritis. (On the computers in the classroom, you will probably have to disable popup blockers to watch a video-- to do that, hold down the Ctrl key as you click to bring up the video.)

How to get to this page on the Web

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu/>
  2. Click on Web Resources by Subject
  3. Click on Nursing
  4. Under Course-Related Materials, click on Doing Nursing Research for Nursing Students

 

T.N. Smalley; rev 9/2010, as/gr