2. • Sources of information, Health and Medical Collection (Proquest)
• Searching for Images and using them in your work – things to think about
• Referencing Images
Session time
2.00pm-3.30pm
Session objectives
3. • Create an information leaflet to focus on an aspect of care management for
an identified individual in relation to their long term condition
• No more than 2 sides of A4
• 500 word rationale to accompany the leaflet
• 3500 assignment exploring contemporary philosophies, models and
frameworks that underpin the care planning process for the service
identified in the leaflet
• Demonstrate wider reading throughout the discussion and use
appropriate references to support your arguments.
Your task
4. You need information and evidence that is of a high quality and up-to-date to:
• Underpin your academic studies and course/theory work
To support your practice (EBP) so that you can
• Make the best decisions about treatment and care delivery
• Keep your practice up-to-date and maintain standards
Evidence in Nursing and Healthcare
5. • Journal databases (Summon will search these for you)
Cinahl Plus with full text
Health and Medical Collection (Proquest)
Summon – for a range of different resources
• Nice Evidence search
Where to find quality information
6. • Write out your research question
• Identify your keywords
Research question
Encouraging engagement with rehabilitation after heart attack
Step 1 – Identify the key concepts
7. For each concept many try to think of as many similar or related words as
possible
Example – my search includes the topic of diet
Any of the following keywords could be used
Find alternative search terms
Diet
Dietary Food Meals
Malnutrition Nutrition Nourishment
Eating Malnourishment
Tip! Use the online thesaurus to help with this
8. Community Nursing OR
District nurse, CNS, Home Nurse, SCPHN, Public health? Community
nursing, health visitor
Finding alternative search terms
9. To search comprehensively, you should use various types of search terms.
For example
Acronyms and abbreviations
Acronyms and abbreviations
Use MRI For Magnetic resonance imaging
Use QOL For Quality of life
Use EOL For End of life
Alternative spellings
Use organisation OR organization
Use pediatrics OR paediatrics
10. Research question
Encouraging engagement with rehabilitation after heart attack
Keywords
Identify the key concepts
Keywords
Theme 1 Encourage, support
Theme 2 Heart attack, Myocardial infarction
Theme 3 Rehabilitation, physiotherapy, exercise, diet, recover
11. Find alternative search terms
Link together the keywords for each theme with an OR
rehabilitation or physiotherapy or exercise or diet or
recovery
AND Heart attack or Myocardial infarction
AND Support or encourage
12. 1. Searching on the stem of a word (sometimes known as truncation or
Wildcard searches) uses an * to find any letter after the point the * is
placed.
2. Boolean operators – OR/AND (we have already used these)
Apply techniques to make searching more
effective
13. * Searches for variants of the stem of a word and will increase you search
results
Nurs* finds: Nurse, nurses, nursing
Child* finds: Child, children, childhood, childbirth
Radiograph* finds: Radiographer, radiogaphers, radiography
Manage* finds: Mange, manges, manger, managers, management, managing
Midwif* finds: Midwife, midwives, midwifery
Apply techniques to make searching more
effective
- Truncation
14. Phrase search examples
Example search Search results
Nurse education Words may appear in different search fields (e.g. title
and abstract) so may be unrelated
“Nurse education” Nurse education (no other variations will be found)
15. Find alternative search terms
Link together the keywords for each theme with an OR
rehabilit* or physiotherap* or exercise* or diet* or recover*
AND “Heart attack” or “Myocardial infarction”
AND Encourag* or Support*
16. Apply limits
• Date range – normally last 10 years, or if your set of results is large use last 5 years
• Scholarly journals or peer reviewed
17. Select a record to see related items and
ebooks (if available)
18. • Boolean operators are useful for broadening or narrowing your search
results and to link keywords together
OR broadens (or widens your search) by finding any word use it within your search string
group your search words together on the same topic
using OR
AND narrows by finding all words Use it to combine your searches
most databases have AND set up for you
Apply techniques to make searching more
effective
- Boolean operators
Tip: it is good practice to use upper case for Boolean operators
19. Nice (NHS) Evidence Search Guidelines
https://www.evidence.nhs.uk
Includes high quality information from accredited sources
• Guidelines
• Systematic reviews
• Care Pathways
• Primary research
• Access is free – includes full-text documents
• The focus is on information from UK organisations
20. Digital images and copyright
• Creating and sharing digital images is easy but using them legally is not so easy
• There are strict rules and regulations regarding their use and you could be fined
if you disregard these
• Copyright owners do not have to make any explicit statements regarding
copyright in their work.
• However, the absence of clear copyright license information attached to an
image does not mean it is free to use
TIP! Always assume an image is protected under copyright unless otherwise stated
21. Using images in your work
• Step 1 Find a copyright cleared image
Search Pixabay, Flickr, Google Images or Bing
• Step 2 Attribute the image beneath or
along the side of the the image
Add an attribution statement beneath your image
• Step 3 Reference your image
Include a reference in your reference list
22. Creative Commons
• Creative Commons is a non-profit organisation that
enables the sharing and use of images and other
works.
• It enables creators to give others the right to share,
use and build upon work created while retaining their
copyright.
• There are many different Creative Commons
licenses and each allows the image to be
shared and reused in different ways e.g. the
license may not allow the image to be edited or used
for commercial purposes.
• Watch this short Video for a quick introduction to
copyright and Creative Commons.
Untitled image by Tumisu on Pixabay
23. Images which are safe to use
Public Domain (CC0) images
•These images are copyright cleared (“no rights reserved”) and are free to use and
edit with no permission required.
•Image creators have chosen to opt out of copyright and database protection and
have waived their exclusive rights, to the fullest extent allowed by law. More
Creative Commons (free to use and share) images (typically CC-BY licence)
•Licensed images free to use and share for education and research purposes
•Some licenses may not permit commercial use or editing of images
24. •These images are copyright cleared (“no rights
reserved”) and are free to use and edit with no
permission required.
•Image creators have chosen to opt out of copyright
and database protection and have waived their
exclusive rights, to the fullest extent allowed by
law. More
Using Images in your work
CC0 = in the public domain no
attribution required
CC0 Licence is safest
29. Attributing images
• Attribution means acknowledging and giving credit to the creator or owner of an
image.
• You should add an attribution statement directly under each image you use in your
poster including the following (if given):
“Title of the image”
Author name
Source e.g. Flickr, Google Images, Pixabay etc.
• Note this could be very small
30. Attributing an image with full details
“Syringe with 5 drops” by Zaldylmg available from Flickr
31. Attributing an image with full details
“Syringe with 5 drops” by Zaldylmg available from Flickr
32. Referencing images
• Referencing is different from attribution and you are required to do both.
• You need to link your attribution statement to your reference list at the end of
your poster.
• Your reference should include full details including how to find the image.
33. Referencing an image with full details
Zaldylmg (2008) Syringe with 5 drops. Available at:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/8499561@N02/2755481069/in/photolist-5cuywi-
jzXwzE-5mfH6-6bd9cW-acMjbQ-nVVT88 (Accessed: 7 January 2015).
•Photographer’s name
•Year (in round brackets)
•Image title (in italics) followed by full stop
•Available at: URL
•(Accessed: date)
35. Referencing an image with no author and no
date
Photo title (in italics)
Year (in round brackets)
Available at: URL
(Accessed: date)
Blur-chair-cheerful. (no date) Available at https://www.pexels.com/photo/yellow-
plush-toy-160739/ (Accessed: 4th June 2018)
36. The referencing system for Education is UoS Harvard and is based on the advice in this
book:
Pears, R. and Shields, G. (2016) Cite
them right: the essential referencing
guide. 10th ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan.
Cite Them Right is also available online
Harvard referencing
http://libguides.ucs.ac.uk
Focus for today is Health and Medical Collection from Proquest
Once you have identified the topic that you want to investigate it is helpful to write out your research question and identify key words that can be used for searching
Even if you only have a vague idea about what you want to research it can be helpful to write down what it is that you are looking for
Supposing my research question is about the experiences of fathers in caring for premature babies my keywords can be identified as experiences, Fathers, premature babies
Our aim is to search a database comprehensively, in order to do this we need to consider alternative words for your concepts this is because not everyone refers to the same thing in the same way, people use different words to describe the same thing.
We can’t guarantee that different articles are going to talk about the same thing using the same words
There is a helpful online thesaurus on the Advanced searching page in the nursing guide online – the thesaurus can be found in step 3 developing your search terms. Use this to find alternative keywords to common subjects.
Remember to think about acronyms or abbreviations
As well as alternative spelling – especially around USA and UK spelling
Once you have identified the topic that you want to investigate it is helpful to write out your research question and identify key words that can be used for searching
Even if you only have a vague idea about what you want to research it can be helpful to write down what it is that you are looking for
Supposing my research question is about the experiences of fathers in caring for premature babies my keywords can be identified as experiences, Fathers, premature babies
Using truncation will broaden your search so that you find more results
Where you put the * symbol will result in a database finding anything after the * (see examples)
