NUR152: Nursing Theory & Science

• Scientific basis professional practice
• Foster nursing leadership & lifelong learning
• Strengthen nursing contribution to enhancement of healthcare

Information presented should include, but is not limited to:

• At least 2 measurable learning objectives – what do you want your target audience (fellow students) to learn from your presentation? Should be RUMBA.  How will you evaluate learning?  (OK to evaluate & have prizes prn)
• Traditional diet & its effect on health, Western diet influence & effect
• Predisposition to certain types of illness
• Response to and treatment of illness
• Feelings about use of “western” medications , therapies
• Alternative therapies commonly used in this culture. Description or demo, used for?,  benefits, risks
• Response to and treatment of pain (e.g. stoic or demonstrative)
• Death & dying, care of the deceased
• NCLEX test questions
• References

• Race - Differentiates people based upon physical characteristics and biological disposition.
• Culture - Learned behaviors: thoughts, beliefs, values & customs.
• Ethnicity - Common ancestry, language, and culture. 

Census data can be accessed to determine population numbers in Maricopa County, AZ.  This is a primary source of information.  

*New immigrants & first generation 

Reference books, such as encyclopedias and handbooks, are tertiary sources that help researchers:

1. Define your topic

2. Pick out words or phrases for further searching

3. Identify questions, problems and/or areas of the topic to research

Monographs are secondary sources of information which add value by explaining, analyzing and commenting on topics in great depth.  

LC call numbers

• R - medicine
• RA - public aspects of medicine
• RT - nursing

**Please contact Elizabeth, elizabeth.saliba@gccaz.edu, if you have trouble logging into this E-book. 

1. Who writes for, publishes & reads?
2. Why are they written?
3. Where do you find or purchase them?

*Scholarly journal articles that do not report the results of research are secondary sources (for example, systematic reviews)

Examples:  

• Scholarly journal - Child Health Nursing Research
• Trade journal - National Nurse
• Magazine - Health 

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1. Publication information (journal details, date, article title & authors)
2. Abstract (Summary of article sections)  
3. Introduction (Study objective & Background information)
4. Methods (Study design)
5. Results (Data analysis & Tables/graphs)
6. Discussion (Summary of findings, study limitations, conclusions and suggestions for further research)
7. References

Peer review -

• Research methods and findings are examined by experts in the field
• Prevents the spread of unjustified findings, interpretations, or personal views
• Legitimizes research which is then added to the larger understanding of the field

What is the difference between keywords and subject headings?

ANA 

ANA Listening Sessions on Racism in Nursing

EthnoMed

Minority Health (CDC)

Racial Equity and Health Policy (Kaiser Family Foundation)

Criteria for evaluating open web sources includes:

• Author
• Date of publication
• Publisher
• Intended audience
• Objective reasoning
• Coverage
• Evaluative reviews

Domain searches - Limit a search to a particular category of resources, including .edu (educational), .int (international), .gov (US government), .az.gov (AZ government), .org (organizations), and .mil (military).

• site:.edu pain and Chinese
• site:.gov “pain management” and Chinese
• site:.org “cultural competence” and Chinese

Site searches - Limit search results to a particular website. 

• site:www.nursingworld.org “cultural competence”

**Both types of searches need to be formatted as shown in the above examples.  

What are primary, secondary and tertiary sources?  What are examples of each?

What are scholarly, trade and popular periodicals?   What type of information does each provide?

What are keywords?  What are subject headings (controlled vocabulary)?  Which generally produces the most relevant results?

What is the purpose of the following Boolean operators?  Which will limit results?  Which will broaden results?

• OR
• AND
• NOT

Will truncation (for example, steril*) limit or broaden results?  

Will phrase searching with quotation marks (for example, "infection control") limit or broaden results?

How do researchers benefit from using reference resources?

What is peer review?  

 Elizabeth Saliba, elizabeth.saliba@gccaz.edu