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Nursing 201 - Tower-Gilchrist - Fall 2023

This guide is for students enrolled in Nursing 201 at Oxford College.
  Reference Resources

If you're looking up general information on conditions or medical treatments, you may want to consult reference resources. Reference resources include textbooks, encyclopedias, and other tertiary sources that are reliable places to find information that isn't tied to a particular study or author's finding.
 Health Science Databases

Since Emory Libraries have access to more than 1,000 research databases, sometimes it is easier to filter the databases by subject and choose a database based upon your research need. Simply do this by clicking on the "All Subjects" dropdown menu and click on a subject to narrow the results to the available databases that are within the selected discipline.

 

What is Articles+?

 

Articles+ provides Emory users with access to millions of scholarly e-resources including articles, images, conference proceedings, audio-visual materials, books, and dissertations. Search Articles+ by selecting the header on Library Search or by following the link in your search results.

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  PubMed

 

In this class, you'll probably need to look up information in PubMed. PubMed can be an intimidating database to use, but these tips can help!

 

  MeSH Terms

Using Medical Subject Headings, or MeSH, may help you retrieve more relevant search results. MeSH are the subject terms applied to nearly all PubMed citations. However, it is important to remember that some PubMed citations - including the very newest citations - do not have MeSH terms applied to them, and therefore will not appear in a search that exclusively uses MeSH terms.

Three ways to search using MeSH:

  • Use the MeSH terms from a known, relevant article: Search for a known article, click to open the full record, then scroll down to see the MeSH terms applied to that article. Clicking on a MeSH term will allow you to either search PubMed using only that term, or add that term to the search box; you can then add additional terms and execute your search.
  • Use the MeSH Database to find terms, then build a search using those terms.
  • Use Advanced Search to search using known MeSH terms: If you know the MeSH terms you want for your search, click Advanced under the Search box, then use the drop-down menu in Advanced Search.

To see suggested MeSH terms based on a block of submitted text (ie, an abstract or article, etc.), use the MeSH on Demand tool. MeSH on Demand also lists similar PubMed articles relevant to your submitted text, thus MeSH on Demand can help you find articles similar to a known, relevant article.

Information used on a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License from UC Berkeley's PubMed Guide.