Information Competence in the Professions Homepage
Nursing
1. When searching CINAHL on the topic of accidental falls, you retrieve the following citation: "TITLE: Assessment of fall risk and prevention of injurious falls IN: Restraint-free care: individualized approaches for frail elders (Strupf NE et al) AUTHOR(S): Zisserman-PM; Robinson-JP SOURCE(BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION): Springer Publ (New York, NY) 1998 (pp 60-84). This citation is of the following type:
dissertation
conference proceeding
chapter in a book
government document

2. You may find the full text of some items in CINAHL.
True False
3. You have found a release to the following: " TITLE: Free hospital care, and care provided in the other types of health facilities under theHill-Burton Program. PLACE: [Rockville, Md.]: PUBLISHER: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration". This publication would most likely be located in which section of the Library?
Book stacks on the second floor
Periodicals
Government documents
Reference

4. When searching CINAHL, the following logical connectors may be used to narrow a search except:
OR
NEAR
AND
WITH

5. If you do not find anything on your chosen subject in CINAHL, what would you do to get relevant citations?
Add synonyms for your subject to your search
Look in a medical or nursing dictionary to make sure search terms are spelled correctly.
Look for a broader subject heading in the online thesaurus and use that in your search
All of the above
None of the above

6. While searching a database you type in the keyword "neonatal" and get over 6,500 records. One of those records is about Infant Formula. What is the best way to find the other records that focus precisely on this topic?
find the subject heading(s) or descriptor term(s) for this record and search those term(s)
look for other material by the author
add the keywords "Infant Formula" to the keyword search
do a topic search

7. You may explode terms in the CINAHL database. When a term is exploded, which of the following is true?
The term and all narrower terms are combined using the logical connector AND.
The term and all narrower terms are combined using the logical connector OR.
The term and all broader terms are combined using the logical connector OR.
The term and all broader terms are combined using the logical connector AND.

8. In an electronic database such as CINAHL or Medline, if you truncate the word gastrointestinal by typing gastro*, you will retrieve records that contain the following words:
gastroenteritis
gastritis
gastrointestinal
gastronomy
gastroschisis

9. Your literature search has retrieved medical articles in the following periodicals: New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Newsweek, and JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association). The articles from which periodical is most likely to have an author who does not have medical expertise?
New England Journal of Medicine
Newsweek
Lancet
JAMA

10. A directory is:
a book containing definitions of words
a book containing maps
a book containing statistics
a book containing an alphabetical or classified list of people or organizations

11. How could you locate other books in the HSU Library closely related to the book with the title of Maternal_newborn nursing care: - the nurse, the family, and the community?
Look for other books by the same author(s)
Look for other books that have the same subject heading(s)
Browse the shelf on which you found the book
Click on Subject(s) links in the record for this book in the HSU Library catalog, Catalyst
All of the above
None of the above

12. Your professor asks you to find a literature review on tuberculosis. You are looking for:
a literary article on tuberculosis
an article which reviews books on tuberculosis
an article which summarizes current research on tuberculosis
an encyclopedia article on tuberculosis

13. Which of the following indexes would be most likely to produce the largest number of scholarly citations since 1990 on the topic of health care policy in the United States?
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature)
Academic Search
GPO Index (U.S. Government Printing Office)
Medline

14. In the text, "Critical Care Nurse has: v. 11 (1991)-," the statement "Library has" means
the Library has volume 11 of Critical Care Nurse
the Library has Critical Care Nurse from volume 11 (1991) to the present
the Library has Critical Care Nurse from volume 11 (1991) until an unknown date
the Library has 11 volumes of Critical Care Nurse

15. In order to include the British spelling of color in your search of CINAHL, you could type:
color not colour
colo?r
color near colour
color*

16. A book with a call number RC 1206 .094 1998 would be placed on the shelf

before (a)
between (a) and (b)
between (b) and (c)
between (c) and (d)
between (d) and (e)

17. A book with a call number RJ 420 .D5 D9 would be placed on the shelf

between (b) and (c)
between (c) and (d)
between (d) and (e)
between (e) and (f)
after (f)

18. The article in the book you want is not in the HSU Library collection. Which of the alternatives below is most likely to produce the book or article?
ask your professor for the material
ask a classmate for the material
submit an Interlibrary Loan request
drive to another library to get the material

19. You have been assigned to do a research paper on a topic that is unfamiliar. Which source is MOST likely to give you an authoritative and comprehensive overview?
an almanac
a periodical article
a book containing statistics
an encyclopedia

20. The term microform refers to:
books with extrememly smallprint
a film bearing a reproduction of printed or other graphic material
a type of dust
slides to use with a microscope

21. HSU's online catalog, Catalyst, does not contain:
titles of periodicals
titles of books
titles of compact discs
titles of videos
titles of periodical articles

22. If you are doing a comprehensive literature search on the topic of medical benefits of weight lifting, you should search which of the following indexes:
Medline
SPORTDiscus
CINAHL
All of the above