Scholarship and Nursing Practice
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Scholarship and Nursing Practice
Personal skillsets determine the utilization of evidence in practice and research to retrieve relevant and trustworthy resources from available databases. The process is usually time-consuming if one lacks the know-how of differentiating the vast number of articles available. However, technological advancement has allowed modification of the databases to sieve data hence eliminate the intensive hustle encountered during literature review (Alexander et al., 2017; LoBiondo-Wood et al., 2018). This paper will use online databases to retrieve a recent article on nursing and explain the usefulness of the database in article retrieval.
Database Exploration and Article Retrieval
The database utilized in the search was PubMed (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/). This database contains numerous articles, with links to paid, free and open-access full texts. It has an estimated 21 million citations for biomedical literature. It covers materials since 1948, published in more than 80 countries globally. The database is not limited to the field of nursing alone but also medicine, healthcare systems, dentistry, preclinical science, and veterinary medicine (Lu, 2011). In the PubMed search, the article below was identified as relevant.
Rouleau, G., Gagnon, M.-P., Côté, J., Payne-Gagnon, J., Hudson, E., & Dubois, C.-A. (April 25, 2017). Impact of information and communication technologies on nursing care: Results of an Overview of Systematic Reviews. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 19, 4.)
The relevance was attributed to the fact that my focus lies on the relationship between ICT and healthcare practice to see if it can improve the quality of care. The paper is a quantitative and qualitative systematic review of different finding which uses the data to give precise and substantive information.
Difficulties Encountered During the Search
The first challenge was in narrowing down the numerous data to get desirable results. The database gave more than 500,000 results in a single search, with most of them being irrelevant or too old for use. However, the solution to this was by using the filters located at the left of the webpage. These filters allow screen by year, text availability i.e., whether abstract, free full-text, or just full text, filter by article attributes or filter by article type. It is also prudent to mention that the screen allows feedback based on preferred journal category i.e., MEDLINE or Nursing Journals. The database also has numerous links for some articles with other redirecting you to sites that require subscription (Greenhalgh,2014). However, with practice, one quickly identifies the items with open access through the “Free PMC Article” mentions on the search. On the other hand, the advanced search was arduous to learn and required intense practice and teaching to master. However, the advanced search, once mastered, provided more accurate results. Similarly, the search could not indicate the number of citations made on an article before opening the link. It is tiresome to have to open each suggestion to check the numerical value of citations.
This database is useful to my colleagues in the healthcare field. This is because of the numerous articles it has. Similarly, it is a free database with some opensource articles which reduce the cost of research or application of evidence-based practice. The advanced filter allows a review of up to date articles. The vastness of available articles and coverage of many fields without forgetting the advanced search and filters make me recommend PubMed as a suitable search engine. The database has also managed the US government, making it more secure and with highly scrutinized data before approval.
References
Alexander, S., Hoy, H. M., & In Frith, K. H. (2017). Applied clinical informatics for nurses: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Greenhalgh, T. (2014). How to read a paper: The basics of evidence-based medicine.
LoBiondo-Wood, G., Haber, J., & Titler, M. G. (2018). Evidence-based practice for nursing and healthcare quality improvement.
Lu Z. (2011). PubMed and beyond: a survey of web tools for searching biomedical literature. Database: the journal of biological databases and curation, 2011, baq036. https://org/10.1093/database/baq036
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QUESTION:
For this Discussion, you explore databases available through the Walden Library.
To Prepare:
Review the information presented in the Learning Resources for using the Walden Library, searching the databases, and evaluating online resources.
Begin searching for a peer-reviewed article that pertains to your practice area and interests you.
By Day 3 of Week 6
Post the following:
Using proper APA formatting, cite the peer-reviewed article you selected that pertains to your practice area and is of particular interest to you and identify the database that you used to search for the article. Explain any difficulties you experienced while searching for this article. Would this database be useful to your colleagues? Explain why or why not. Would you recommend this database? Explain why or why not.
