Nursing

Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete; despite its name, it encompasses all subject areas, with Canadian focus, and peer-reviewed as well as popular magazine and news sources.

Proquest's Guide to CBCA (note the tabs along the top for different parts of the guide)

The Cochrane Library, owned by Cochrane and published by John Wiley & Sons., is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. The Library includes the following:

• The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) - systematic reviews in health care
• The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) - reports of randomized and quasi-randomized controlled trials (does not contain the full text of the article)
• Cochrane Clinical Answers (CCAs) provide a readable, digestible, clinically-focused entry point to rigorous research from Cochrane Reviews. 

Trouble accessing Cochrane Library? Learn more about how your IP address can impact your access to the full text of articles in Cochrane Library at https://library.upei.ca/cochrane-library-eal.

[Description from vendor]

Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy contains nearly 330 videos of real human anatomic specimens in their natural colors, including 5 new, groundbreaking videos of the inner ear. Dr. Robert Acland presents moving structures—muscles, tendons, and joints—making the same movements that they make in life. The videos show complex structures step by step—from bone to surface anatomy—to provide a foundation for understanding anatomical structure and function. The entire series was digitally re-mastered producing clearer, brighter, and more detailed videos than seen in previous versions.

Covidence is online software for managing the systematic review process. It facilitates the process of screening references (both title/abstract and full-text), conducting data extraction, completing risk of bias analysis and creating a PRISMA flowchart. Request invitation to join University of Prince Edward Island's Covidence account: https://tinyurl.com/2p92b4yw 

The online version of the Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties plus other handbooks.

Both professional information as well as patient information is provided for medications, according to Canadian regulations and standards.

For users wanting to use the mobile application, the UPEI organizational code is: 0007249

From the publisher's website:

The Canadian standard for drug monographs contains thousands of products, including:

• monographs for drugs, vaccines, natural health products and medical devices — approved by Health Canada
• Lexi-Interact drug interaction checker
• critical updates: warnings, advisories and drug shortages;
• tools: medical calculators, Clin-Info, Pill Identifier and more.
• current, evidence-based therapeutic information for more than 200 conditions including all content from CPS: Therapeutic Choices and CPS: Minor Ailments;
• quick glance drug tables that link to monographs;
• treatment and management algorithms;
• patient information for medications and minor ailments.

RxFiles is an academic detailing program providing objective, comparative drug information to clinicians.  RxFiles also includes newsletter reviews, Q&As, trial summaries, and up-to-date drug comparison charts.  [description from database website]

New instructions as of February 2024 on how to use the mobile app with UPEI's subscription enabled: 

[Old instructions: RxFilesPLUS App Instructions (sign-in with UPEI credentials required) ]

Emcare is a nursing subset of the Elsevier Embase medical database.

It is provided on the Ovid platform as part of the library's "LWW Nursing and Health Professions Premier Collection" of full text nursing journals.

It does not use MeSH subject headings, but has its own thesaurus.

The database indexes many journals that are not full text on Ovid, some of which the library may have elsewhere and some that may require interlibrary loan requests to read.

Search a full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to alternative medical practices. New periodical and newspaper articles are added daily.

A resource for up-to-date information on the complete range of health care topics. With more than 2,500 embargo-free, full-text periodicals, reference books, pamphlets, and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries, this database ensures that researchers get current, scholarly, comprehensive answers to health-related questions.

(Description provided by the database publisher, Gale/Cengage)

With a strong emphasis on full text titles cited in CINAHL and over 10 million articles, this collection's current and authoritative content will help nursing professionals already working in the field, as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum. NAH comes to the rescue of nursing students, physician’s assistant students, and researchers in allied health fields who are looking for answers related to the specialized care, treatment, and management of all sorts of patients.
 

(Description provided by the database publisher, Gale/Cengage)

Searches scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and articles. Note: only use the proxied link when you are off-campus. If you are on campus, go directly to Google Scholar as http://scholar.google.ca.

Medline (on the EBSCO platform) with access to extensive full text of approximately ~5100 journals (as of December 2023). More details available from EBSCO

Nursing and Health Professions Premier Collection is composed of about 100 core nursing and related health scholarly journals, published by Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins and hosted on the search platform Ovid.

All of these titles are fully indexed in the CINAHL database and are also searchable within the OneSearch platform, so we recommend you use one of those search engines for topic searching rather than the Ovid platform directly.

Links to the full text within Ovid are provided in CINAHL and OneSearch.

The database link above defaults to "YourJournals@Ovid" at the start of the session so you only search within the journals that UPEI has licensed. The entire Ovid platform has many more journals that UPEI has not licensed. If you search those, you may need to use Interlibrary Loan to obtain copies of some of the articles you find.

Over 350 clinically focused videos on:

• Clinical Skills in Nursing
• Gerontology in Nursing
• Obstetrics
• Practical and Assistant Nursing
• Compliance and Regulations
• Long-Term Care
• Pediatrics
• Psychiatric Nursing
• Fundamentals of Nursing
• Medical Administration
• Perioperative Nursing

See also the other health-related videos in the Academic Video Online (AVON) collection.  All videos may also be found by searching the catalogue.

Public Health + comes to you via the McMaster Health Knowledge Refinery. Every article from over 120 medical and allied health academic journals is critically appraised to identify those that are methodologically sound. Articles that pass this process are rated (maximum 7) by clinicians for relevance and newsworthiness, and are then sent to this website. The articles are updated weekly and a searchable archive is kept on this website.

Contains over 21 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals & online books.

 If you want to make a personal account within PubMed, go there using this unproxied link first, and then you can use the "more login options" to find University of Prince Edward Island (under U) and login via your campus account, or you can use one of the other options like Google or Microsoft with your personal (not UPEI) Google/Microsoft account.

SAGE Research Methods Foundations is a large series of extended articles/short books edited by Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Alexandru Cernat, Joseph W. Sakshaug & Richard A. Williams. It is the perfect companion for novice researchers and provides bite-size, introductory overviews to all the major methods topics to help get you on your way. The entries give introductory overviews to major research methods, covering their history, development and critical debates surrounding them. 

Some examples of topics covered include:

• Item Response Theory
• Analysing Administrative Data
• Case-Based Methods
• Case Study
• Content Analysis, Quantitative
• Critical Discourse Analysis
• Agent Based Models
• Analysis of Proportions
• Analysis of Rare Events
• ANOVA and ANCOVA
• Archiving Qualitative Data
• Arts-Based Research
• Autobiography
• Autoethnography
• Bayesian Statistics
• Bibliometric Indicators

See also: SRM Videos: Practical Research and Academic Skills, SRM main page with Core information

This collection of over 450 streaming videos on the SAGE Research Methods platform offers support on the practical skills that you need to successfully complete your research. Key areas such as writing a research proposal, planning and designing a research project, and securing ethical approval are explicitly covered. Practical skills such as project management, writing for publication, presenting work, and building networks are also presented through helpful explanatory videos. This video collection will give you the confidence to successfully navigate your research, take responsibility for your professional development and identify the transferable skills needed to progress your careers.

Topics covered in the videos include:

• Project Management
• Writing a research proposal
• Securing ethical approval
• Writing for publication
• Computer applications
• Applied research
• Research careers & building networks
• Presenting at conferences
• Building Networks
• and many more topics

There are more research methods videos in the SRM Core package

Scopus provides broad indexing and citation coverage of academic journals, books and conference proceedings published worldwide. Delivering a comprehensive overview ofresearch output in the fields of science, engineering, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Access the Elsevier Scopus guide for information about searching. 

Coming soon: the UPEI librarians are developing a own localized scopus advanced search tips guide.

If you want to search for publications by UPEI authors, you can add these pieces to your Advanced search:

AF-ID ( "University of Prince Edward Island"   60007655 )   = UPEI (except AVC)

AF-ID("University of Prince Edward Island Atlantic Veterinary College" 60005845) = Atlantic Veterinary College