LIBRARY GUIDE TO NRS 5241 - Systems Leadership and Health Policy for Advanced Nursing Practice

START by exploring Library OneSearch (includes books, ebooks, academic journals, newspapers) use facets on left to narrow by source type - choose " Limit to articles from scholarly publications, including peer-review"

Possible subject databases for finding literature:

ABI/Inform Complete
Provides access to articles in scholarly, peer-reviewed business journals, trade journals and business news publications. Includes the full-text of the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and the Economist.

CINAHL Complete
The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) is a full-text database for nursing and allied health journals from 1937 to present. Includes access to scholarly journal articles, dissertations, magazines, pamphlets, evidence-based care sheets, books, and research instruments. How to Export to RefWorks

EMBase
Comprehensive coverage of the preclinical, medical and pharmacological sciences. Strong in the European literature, EMBase includes 2,000 not currently covered by Medline.

PubMed (MEDLINE)
The National Library of Medicine's free interface for MEDLINE, the premier database for biomedical journal citations. PubMed dates back to 1946 and includes more than 32 million citations in medicine, nursing, allied health, and dentistry. PubMed also includes citations from PubMed Central and the NCBI Bookshelf.

Web of Science
Web of Science provides access to Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI). These indexes contain references that have been cited in other articles. You can use these citations to perform cited reference searches (locate articles that cite an earlier publication). How to export to RefWorks. 

For all research databases BROWSE SUBJECT LIST of DATABASES.


Finding data & statisitics 
1. Government Health sites:

• Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - National Center for Health Statistics
• HealthData.gov -a federal government website managed by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• World Health Organization
   

2. Government Statsitics 

• DemographicsNow database available through MEL. Limited Census data searching
• American FactFinder
• Census of the United States
• USA.gov The government's most robust search engine giving access to thousands of web sites.
• Kids Count - a wealth of stats on children

• APHA - American Public Health Association A non-profit member organization dedicate to promoting public health policy.
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - Department of Health and Human Services.
• Public Health Institute - PHI generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.
• The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the U.S it develops and runs its own research, journalism and communications programs.

Database tutorials
CINAHL
PUBMED

EBP tutorials:
Evidence-Based Practice in the Health Sciences: EBP Nursing Tutorial (UIC)

Analyzing Sources & Literature Review tutorials:
Essential Elements of a Literature Review guide (UC Santa Cuz)
Conducting Literature Reviews - detailed guide (USC)

RefWorks is available through the Library subcriptions. You create a personal database of references, generate a bibliography from your list of references & automatically format in any common citation style.

Citation Style Guides:

• APA Formating and Style Guide with examples (by Owl at Purdue)
• Sample APA paper
• APA style tutorial

The Writing Center at Oakland University will assist developing their ideas into polished final products. The Center's services are in high demand so be sure to plan ahead when scheduling an appointment.

This guide was originally created by Julia Rodriguez, Associate Professor at Kresge Library.

Julia Rodriguez is currently the Health Sciences and Scholarly Communications Librarian. From 2008 to 2020, her professional focus also included serving as the nursing librarian and this content is the result of that work.