Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Tracheostomy

In Medline and CINAHL, you can get more articles about Tracheostomy as follows:

MeSH:
Tracheostomy OR "Intubation, Intratracheal"

CINAHL:
Tracheostomy OR "Endotracheal Tubes"

but watch out for irrelevant results.

Monday, January 11, 2010

Wait Lists

In Medline, if you are looking for information on wait lists, try all three of these MeSH:

Waiting Lists
Crowding
Forecasting


Use OR to combine them and then AND them to the department or service that you're interested in, e.g.:

"Emergency Service, Hospital" AND ("Waiting Lists" OR Crowding OR Forecasting)

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Assessing clinical learning

If you're looking up information about testing/assessing/evaluating student nurses, here are some useful CINAHL headings:

Using the Evaluation subheading:
MH "Learning/EV"
MH "Students, Nursing+/EV"
MH "Education, Nursing+/EV"

Additional CINAHL headings:
Educational Measurement
Student Performance Appraisal
--Narrower Term: Competency Assessment