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Cabrillo College Nursing Department What's on this page Exercise 1: Find a specific document on the Web Exercise 2: Find articles that are case studiesExercise 3: Find PowerPoints Exercise 4: Find tutorials Exercise 5: Find quality Web sites & find & transfer an image Evaluate this exercise How to get to these exercises on the Web
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This Doing Nursing Research exercise is on the Internet.
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:
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 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? 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, or use the printed out copy. 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. Having trouble? Check out our Hints page for Exercise 3, or use the printed out copy. 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 Clinical Tutorials, Public Tutorials, or Webcasts. On your Word document, note the title of what you found, and, having explored it, tell us what you think of its quality. Do they have a tutorial for osteoarthritis? Having trouble? Check out our Hints page for Exercise 4, or use the printed out copy. 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. [The Hints page has Internet links on it, but I did include it in the printed out copy.] Credo is a new reference tool available online from the Library home page. It gives you access to multiple nursing and medical dictionaries.
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 it.) Please evaluate this session. Thanks! How to get to this page on the Web
T.N. Smalley 6/05; last revised 2/08 |
