Pathways to Nursing: A Guide to Library and Online Research in Nursing and Allied Health
This timely book provides a foundation in library and electronic research in the fields of nursing and allied health. It explains essential sources and techniques that can be used by nursing students, healthcare researchers, and nurse practi-tioners who need to gather information independently. Pathways to Nursing covers both physical libraries and online resources, showing how each can be used to its best advantage, and describes the six major components necessary to the development of...
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Tucker, a public and university library veteran, and Craig, e-learning coordinator at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, describe essential research sources and techniques for nursing students, healthcare researchers, and nurse practitioners who need to gather information independently. Covering both physical libraries and online resources, they explain how each can be used to its best advantage, and describe six major components necessary to the development of information retrieval skills in the nursing and allied health fields. Annotation © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR The Bookwatch provides nursing students and medical paraprofessionals with a practical 'how to' guide to doing their research ... Pathways to Nursing is an indispensable addition to professional, academic (especially nursing school), and public library health & medicine library reference collections.
Ch. 1The library as a physical space1Ch. 2The library catalog9Ch. 3The reference collection - tomes of information21Ch. 4Periodicals and indexes29Ch. 5Electronic resources and the internet59Ch. 6The research paper - putting it all together81Ch. 7A review of the process89Dictionaries91Document delivery suppliers92Encyclopedias96Lexicons, yearbooks, and handbooks97Other references98Indexes99Major nursing and health sciences periodicals100Stylesheets for citing electronic information101Internet and online resources102
\ The Bookwatchprovides nursing students and medical paraprofessionals with a practical 'how to' guide to doing their research ... Pathways to Nursing is an indispensable addition to professional, academic (especially nursing school), and public library health & medicine library reference collections.\ \
