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NURS 143 - Informatics in Nursing Practice - Foreman

Nursing Databases

CINAHL

Full-text scholarly and peer reviewed articles for nursing and allied health topics.

Ovid

Comprehensive nursing and allied health portal for practice, education, research, and administration. Features access to 78 full-text journals from Wolters Kluwer.
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Health & Medicine (ProQuest)

Full-text articles covering health, medicine, substance abuse, and many other health-related topics.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

Provides students, allied health professionals, nurses, and medical educators access to scholarly journals on many medical disciplines.

ScienceDirect College Edition

Peer-reviewed scientific studies and review articles. Major focus: science and medicine. Minor focus: social science and humanities.

MEDLINE

Authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and more. Uses Medical Subject Headings or MeSH.

Sage Journals Online

Peer-reviewed articles from scholarly journals in business, engineering, medicine, humanities, and social sciences.

Rhetorical Triangle

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Rhetorical Triangle

You can use the rhetorical triangle to evaluate information. 

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Author

Look at the competence and expertise of the author in the area they are writing. 

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Audience

Consider who the information is written for and whether you fit into that group.

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Purpose

Use the context of where the information is found as well as the context within which it was written.

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