Nursing

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles:

Databases:

Maternity and infant care - a resource from MIDIRS for academics and healthcare professionals involved in the care of women and infants. The database covers international English language journals, books, and grey literature relating to the midwifery profession, pregnancy, labour, birth, postnatal care, and neonatal care and the first year of an infants life.

Intermid - Intermid.co.uk is the online archive of peer-reviewed articles from the British Journal of Midwifery, the African Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health. The site contains all articles published by MA Healthcare Ltd, since 1996.

CINAHL - Contains citations with abstracts to articles published in nursing and allied health journals. Also covers relevant materials from biomedicine, management, behavioural sciences, health sciences librarianship, education, and consumer health.

ScienceDirect - Scientific, technological and medical full text and bibliographic information published by Elsevier Science and its various imprints, including Academic Press and the Harcourt Health Sciences group. The University of Queensland subscribes to the ScienceDirect Freedom Collection, and has also purchased several backfiles, as well as other journals, various ebook series and reference works.

PubMed - a service of the National Library of Medicine was developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information. It includes citations for biomedical articles and provides citations and abstracts to biomedical literature including research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and healthcare services.

Joanna Briggs - Established in 1996, the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) is an international collaboration involving nursing, medical and allied health researchers, clinicians, academics and quality managers. JBI offers resources designed to meet the needs of service providers, health professionals and consumers by connecting the best available international evidence to the point of care.

Related Guides

Related Guides:

Nursing and Midwifery

Evidence-based Nursing & Midwifery Practice (EBP): finding, appraising and using research

Statistics

Statistics:

Australian Bureau of Statistics - Good source of Australian demographic information

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) - Australia's national agency for health and welfare, statistics and information

World Health Organization - International health statistics and comparisons

Queensland Health Statistics - Health Statistics Centre Publications ( including Perinatal)

World Health Organization (WHO) - Data and Statistics

Web Sites

Web Sites:

Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council (ANMAC)

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia

Australian College of Midwives

International Confederation of Midwives (ICM)

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)

National Health and Medical Research Council(NHMRC)

Reproductive Health Gateway

Neonatal Handbook (Victorian government funded neonatal services web site)

Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing - Breastfeeding

World Health Organization | Breastfeeding

NHMRC Draft Infant Feeding Guidelines for Health Workers - Comments needed before 5th Dec 2011

Published: Thu, 2011-11-17 10:15 by Jackie Devenish

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"The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has released the draft Infant Feeding Guidelines for Health Workers for public consultation.

You are invited .... ..to make a submission to the NHMRC about the draft Guidelines.

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RNCA Social Media Guidelines for Nurses

Published: Sun, 2011-11-06 12:48 by Jackie Devenish

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The Royal College of Nursing Australia have "put together these guidelines as a way to help nurses navigate the pitfalls and potential problems that can be faced while using social media". Real life examples are used to illustrate the importance of taking care when communicating online via social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Published: Nov 2011
Publisher: Royal College of Nursing Australia

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The Management of Hypotension in the Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infant: Guideline for Practice

Published: Fri, 2011-10-07 12:21 by Jackie Devenish

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'....focuses on the challenging topic of clinical management of systemic hypotension in the very-low-birth-weight infant during the first 3 days of postnatal life."

Published: 2011
Publisher: National Association of Neonatal Nurses (endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics)
http://www.nann.org/uploads/files/Hypotension_Guideline.pdf

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Recognising and responding to clinical deterioration: survey of recognition and response systems in Australia: summary of findings

Published: Thu, 2011-10-06 11:32 by Jackie Devenish

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"Recognition and response systems are formal systems to support staff to promptly, accurately and reliably recognise patients whose condition is deteriorating clinically and to respond appropriately to stabilise the patient. ......" The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care reveals in this Australian Hospital survey "...what systems are in place, what gaps exist, and what the needs of hospitals are....."

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End-of-life care during the last days and hours

Published: Fri, 2011-09-09 08:31 by Jackie Devenish

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"This guideline will provide evidence- based recommendations for Registered Nurses and Registered Practical Nurses on best nursing practices for end-of-life care during the last days and hours."

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Mental Health

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Encyclopaedias:

The Gale encyclopedia of mental disorders 2003 edited by Ellen Thackery and Madeline Harris

Assessment and therapy resource : specialty articles from The Encyclopedia of mental health / editor-in-chief, Howard S. Friedman

Mental Health - my virtual encyclopedia (US) resource

Addiction : a reference encyclopedia 2010

Handbooks:

The SAGE handbook of mental health and illness 2011 resource

The mental health handbook : a cognitive behavioural approach 3rd edition 2009 by Trevor Powell.

Grief counseling and grief therapy : a handbook for the mental health practitioner 4th ed 2009 by J. William Worden

Oxford handbook of mental health nursing 2006 edited by Patrick Callaghan, Helen Waldock.

Oxford handbook of psychiatry

Handbook of complementary and alternative therapies in mental health 2002 edited by Scott Shannon.

Handbook of clinical rating scales and assessment in psychiatry and mental health 2010 resource

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders : DSM-IV-TR

DSM IV TR online

Dictionaries:

Campbell's psychiatric dictionary 2004 by Robert Jean Campbell

Dorlands illustrated medical dictionary

The language of mental health : a glossary of psychiatric terms 2011 by Narriman C. Shahrokh ... al.

Dictionary of ethical and legal terms and issues : the essential guide for mental health professionals 2007 by Len Sperry.

Psychiatric dictionary

Lexicon of psychiatric and mental health terms

The language of mental health : a glossary of psychiatric terms

Clinical Practice

Clinical Practice:

Essentials of psychiatry

Foundations of clinical psychiatry

Kaplan & Sadock's comprehensive textbook of psychiatry

Evidence Based Practice

Evidence Based Practice:

Evidence-based policy and practice in mental health social work 2011

The evidence-based practice : methods, models, and tools for mental health professionals 2005

BMJ Best Practice - Database

In a single source BMJ has combined the latest research evidence, guidelines and expert opinion - presented in a step-by-step approach, covering prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. Best Practice provides a second opinion in an instant, without the need for checking multiple resources. At its core, Best Practice contains the BMJ's Clinical Evidence

Practice Guidelines - RANZCP

Cochrane Library - information on the effects of interventions in health care, designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care.

Centre for Evidence-Based Mental Health

Evidence-based mental health (e journal)

Evidence-based mental health care by Simon Hatcher, Rob Butler, Mark Oakley-Browne.

Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles:

PsycINFO - Journals, books & book chapters, reports, theses & dissertations in psychology & related fields.

PsycArticles - Journals published by the APA, Canadian Psychological Association plus Hogrefe & Huber Publishers.

BMJ Clinical evidence - Directory of evidence on the effects of common clinical interventions

Cochrane Library - Information on the effects of interventions in health care, designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care.

CINAHL - Contains citations with abstracts to articles published in nursing and allied health journals.

Embase.com - A database which provides access to the biomedical literature with over 2,000 biomedical titles not currently offered by MEDLINE.

Informit Collections - Set of Australian databases including Australasian Medical Index (AMI), A+Education (AEI), Health & Society, APAIS-Health, Health Collection & more.

Medline - Ovid version of Medline. Provides citations and abstracts to biomedical literature including research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and healthcare services

MEDLINEplus - Specialising in medical diseases & conditions, non/ & prescription drugs, medical encyclopaedias & dictionaries & links to clinical trials.

PubMed - PubMed comprises over 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences.

Scopus - Abstracting database covering scientific, technical, medical & the social sciences.

Web of Knowledge - Includes Current Contents - ranging from social & behavioural sciences, life sciences, arts & humanities

Journals

Journals:

Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry - Australian psychiatry journal published by the Australian and NZ College of Psychiatrists

Archives of general psychiatry - a highly ranked mental health journal

Current opinion in psychiatry

Journal of neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry

BMC psychiatry

Psychiatry online journals

A list of UQ Mental Health Journals

Legislation

Australia:

Mental Health Act - Queensland

Related Guides

Related Guides:

Counselling

Psychological and educational tests

Psychology

Secondary Materials

Secondary Materials:

Books

Psychiatric secrets 2nd ed

A handbook for the study of mental health : social contexts, theories, and systems 2010 edited by Teresa L. Scheid et al

Community mental health for older people 2010

Addiction medicine resource : science and practice 2011

Browsing the shelves

You can also browse the catalogue or the shelves at the following call numbers:-

BF176 - Psychological testing

HM1106-1171 - Interpersonal relations. Social behavior

RC435-571 - Psychiatry

RC440 - Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

RC451 - Geriatric Psychiatry

RC455 - Mental Health Services and Ethics

RC480 - Emergency Psychiatry

RC554-569.5 - Personality disorders. Behavior problems including sexual problems, drug abuse, suicide, child abuse

RC564 - Addiction Medicine

Specialised Resources

Specialised Resources:

DSM-IV-TR : Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders resource

Current diagnosis & treatment psychiatry resource

Fish's clinical psychopathology : signs and symptoms in psychiatry 2007

Handbook of clinical rating scales and assessment in psychiatry and mental health 2010 resource

Online counselling resource : a handbook for mental health professionals 2010

Psychiatry Online - books, journals & multimedia on psychiatry, mental health & behavioural sciences from APPI (American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.)

Disorders resource

Internet Mental Health (US) resource

Internet Mental Health is a free encyclopedia of mental health information created by a Canadian psychiatrist, Dr. Phillip Long.

Web Sites

Web Sites:

Australian Department of Health and Ageing - Mental Health

American Psychiatric Association

Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) - Mental Health

Centre for Evidence-Based Mental Health - a UK website focussing on EBM and mental health providing information about trials in which they are involved, an EBM toolkit, information on critical appraisal and a CATmaker

Grieflink - Grieflink is an information resource for the berieved and grieving, their carers, friends and colleagues, and for health and welfare workers

Mental Health Association QLD (MHAQ) - MHAQ provides quality early intervention mental health services and programs that support the community to make mental health connections, develop mental health literacy and participate in employment as a foundation for recovery.

Mental Health Council of Australia - The Mental Health Council of Australia (MHCA) is the peak, national non-government organisation representing and promoting the interests of the Australian mental health sector, committed to achieving better mental health for all Australians.

Queensland Health - Mental Health

Psychiatry - Research, School of Medicine, University of Queensland

RANZCP - The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

Nursing and Midwifery Labour Force 2009

Published: Fri, 2011-08-26 11:24 by Jackie Devenish

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Nursing Midwifery Labour Force 2009.jpg "The supply of nurses increased by 6.2% between 2005 and 2009, from 1,040 full time equivalent (FTE) nurses per 100,000 population to 1,105 FTE nurses based on a 38-hour week.

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Evidence-based Nursing and Midwifery Practice (EBP): finding, appraising and using research

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Handbooks:

Evidence-based practice for nurses : appraisal and application of research

Evidence-based nursing : the research-practice connection

Evidence-based practice in nursing & healthcare : a guide to best practice

Research for evidence-based practice in healthcare

Using evidence to guide nursing practice

Fast facts for evidence-based practice : implementing EBP in a nutshell

Evidence-based practice in nursing

Research in nursing : evidence for best practice

Introduction to nursing research : incorporating evidence-based practice

Essentials of nursing research : appraising evidence for nursing practice

Understanding research for nursing students

Principles and practice of research in midwifery

Dictionaries:

INAHTA Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Glossary - explains many research terms

Abbreviations:

EBP: Evidence-based Practice

EBM: Evidence-based Medicine

PICO: Patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome - This acronym can help you develop a searchable clinical question.

See the INAHTA Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Glossary for more terms.

How-to Guides:

Critical Appraisal of Research

Books:
How to read a paper resource : the basics of evidence-based medicine 4th ed. 2010

Checklists:

Quantitative Studies:
SIGN (Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network) Checklist - http://www.sign.ac.uk/methodology/checklists.html
This website includes checklist for critically appraising the following study types: Systematic Review, Randomized Controlled Trials, Cohort Studes, Case-Controlled Studies and Diagnostic Studies

Mixed Methods Studies:
Pluye, P., Gagnon, M. P., Griffiths, F., & Johnson-Lafleur, J. (2009). A scoring system for appraising mixed methods research, and concomitantly appraising qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods primary studies in Mixed Studies Reviews. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 46(4), 529-546.

Levels of Evidence:

NHMRC levels of evidence and grades for recommendations for developers of guidelines Dec 2009
See Table 3 on p. 16. Note these levels of evidence ranking quantitative studies only.

Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles:

Östlund, U., L. Kidd, et al. (2011). "Combining qualitative and quantitative research within mixed method research designs: A methodological review." International Journal of Nursing Studies 48(3): 369-383.

Journals

Journals:

The Cochrane Library - A source of up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care, designed to provide information and evidence (Systematic Reviews, Randomised to support decisions taken in health care

Joanna Briggs Institute - JBI offers critically appraised information to connect health professional with the best available health care evidence.

PubMed Clinical Queries - A quick way to locate clinical studies or systematic reviews

Statistics

Statistics:

Find Health Statistics:

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)

Australia's Health 2010

World Health Organization (WHO)

Reading Health Statistics:

Medical statistics at a glance

The essentials of biostatistics for physicians, nurses, and clinicians

Web Sites