PhD Resources: Intensives

The below section describes the library content covered in Year One DNP/PhD Intensives week sessions and also provides the documents shown/provided in those sessions.

FALL SEMESTER
Library Session 1

• Orientation: Library Resources & Services.
• Beginning Searching/Search Tips: truncation, limits, “-“, AND/OR,   etc.
• CINAHL & PubMed Searching
• Searching Homework (to be handed in at Library Session 2).

Library Session 2

• Saving CINAHL and PubMed Searches
• EndNote 1: Introduction to EndNote.

SPRING SEMESTER
Library Session 1

• Search Tips Review & Activity.
• Intermediate Searching (CINAHL & PubMed) – Hands On Searching.
• Introduction to Subject Headings.

Library Session 2

• Continuation of Subject Headings
• Primary vs. Secondary Literature.
• Explanation of Systematic Reviews & Searching in Cochrane.
• EndNote 2: Intermediate EndNote.

The below section describes the library content covered in Year Two DNP/PhD Intensives week sessions and also provides the documents shown/provided in those sessions.

FALL SEMESTER
Library Session 1

• Quick Review of Previous Semesters.
• Subject Heading Searching Continued.
• Beyond CINAHL and PubMed Part I (ProQuest Databases: PsycINFO/ERIC/Sociological Abstracts, &, HaPI).
• Searching Homework (to be handed in by Session 2).

Library Session 2

• EndNote 3: Open EndNote Workshop.

SPRING SEMESTER
Library Session 1

• Quick Review of Previous Semesters.
• Advanced Searching.
• Beyond CINAHL and PubMed Part II: Embase, Nursing Reference Center.
• Grey Literature

Optional/Recommended

• Individual/One-on-One Consultations.