HOW ARE YOUR NURSING INFORMATION COMPETENCE SKILLS?

The following is a list of call numbers, which are in the order in which the books would be put on the library shelves. Write the number of the response which best completes each statement on the line provided.

(a)R
    119
   .W45
   1989

(b)R
    119.9
    .T445
    1998

(c)R
121
.B598

(d)RC
120
.B88

(e)RJ
    420
    .D5
     D83

(f)RT
    120
   .I5
    Z35

1. A book with the call number RC 1206 .O94 1998 would be placed on the shelf

a. before (a).

b. between (a) and (b).

c. between (b) and (c).

d. between (c) and (d).

e. between (d) and (e).

2. A book with the call number R 199.95 .T443 would be placed on the shelf

a. between (a) and (b).

b. between (b) and (c).

c. between (c) and (d).

d. between (d) and (e).

e. before (a).

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

a. between (c) and (d).

b. between (b) and (c).

c. between (d) and (e).

d. between (e) and (f).

e. after (f).

4. A book with the call number RZ 221 .P48 1995 would be placed on the shelf

a. between (a) and (b).

b. between (c) and (d).

c. after (f).

d. between (b) and (c).

e. before (a).

5. A book with the call number R 121 .B6 would be placed on the shelf

a. between (e) and (f).

b. between (b) and (c).

c. after (f).

d. between (c) and (d).

e. between (d) and (e).

6. HSU's online catalog, Catalyst, does NOT contain:

a. titles of periodicals

b. titles of videos

c. titles of books

d. titles of periodical articles

e. titles of some government documents

f. d and e

7. In the text below, the "Library has" statement means:

Nurse Practitioner
Library has: v. 16 (1991)-

a. the Library has volume 16 of Nurse Practitioner

b. the Library has Nurse Practitioner from volume 16 (1991) until an unknown date

c. the Library has Nurse Practitioner from volume 16 (1991) to the present

d. the Library has 16 volumes of Nurse Practitioner

8. The term microform refers to:

a. books with extremely small print

b. a type of dust

c. a film bearing a reproduction of printed or other graphic material

d. slides to use with a microscope

9. Before conducting a subject search of a periodical index it is wise to consult:

a. a dictionary

b. an encyclopedia

c. a thesaurus

d. a catalog

10. 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

a. CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature)

b. GPO Index (U.S. Government Printing Office)

c. Academic Search

d. Medline

11. You may explode terms in the CINAHL database. When a term is exploded, which of the following is true?

a. The term and all narrower terms are combined using the logical connector AND.

b. The term and all broader terms are combined using the logical connector OR.

c. The term and all narrower terms are combined using the logical connector OR.

d. The term and all broader terms are combined using the logical connector AND.

12. When searching CINAHL, the following logical connectors may be used to narrow a search except:

a. OR

b. AND

c. NEAR

d. WITH

13. If you are doing a term paper on acquired immune deficiency syndrome, it is best to begin your research in which of the following indexes:

a. Medline

b. CINAHL

c. AIDSLINE

d. Science Citation Index

14. 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:

a. gastroenteritis

b. gastrostomy

c. gastritis

d. all of the above

e. a and b

15. In order to include the British spelling of color in your search of CINAHL, you could type:

a. color not colour

b. color or colour

c. colo?r

d. b and c are both correct

e. a and c are both correct

16. You have searched CINAHL for information on the midwife's role in home births and found the following citation:

            TITLE
                  Birth decisions and heuristics
            AUTHOR(S)
                  Wickham-S
            SOURCE (BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION)
                  Midwifery-Today-and-Childbirth-Education (MIDWIFERY-TODAY-
                        CHILDBIRTH-EDUC) 1997 Winter; (44): 36-8 (14 ref)

This reference will be found in the following type of publication:

a. book

b. periodical

c. government document

d. conference proceeding

17. You may find the full text of some items in CINAHL.

a. true

b. false

18. 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). Which article is most likely to have an author who does not have medical expertise?

a. New England Journal of Medicine

b. Lancet

c. Newsweek

d. JAMA

19. 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 ?

a. Look for other books by the same author(s).

b. Browse the shelf on which you found the book

c. Look for other books that have the same subject heading(s).

d. Click on the hot links in the record for this book in the web catalog.

e. All of the above.

f. None of the above.

20. You have found a reference to the following:

                  TITLE: Free hospital care, nursing home care, and care provided in other
                        types of health facilities under the Hill-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?

a. Book stacks on the second floor

b. Government documents

c. Periodicals

d. Reference

21. MeSH is the abbreviation for:

a. Medical Subject Headings

b. Medical Series on Herpesvirus

c. Medical Science Headings

d. Medical Series on Hepatitis

22. If you do not find anything on your chosen subject in CINAHL, what could you do to get relevant citations?

a. Add synonyms for your subject to your search

b. Look for a broader subject heading in the online thesaurus and use that in your search

c. Look in a medical or nursing dictionary to make sure search terms are spelled correctly.

d. All of the above

e. None of the above

23. 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
                        (Strumpf NE et al)
            AUTHOR(S)
                        Zisselman-PM; Robinson-JP
            SOURCE (BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION)
                        Springer Publ (New York, NY) 1998 (pp 60-84)

This citation is of the following type:

a. dissertation

b. chapter in a book

c. conference proceeding

d. government document

24. 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:

a. Medline

b. CINAHL

c. Sport Discus

d. All of the above

25. The article or book you want is not in the Library. Which of the alternatives below is most likely to produce the book or article?

a. ask your professor for the material

b. submit an Interlibrary Loan request

c. ask a classmate for the material

d. drive to another library to get the material

26. 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?

a. an almanac

b. a bibliography

c. a periodical article

d. an encyclopedia

27. A directory is:

a. a book containing definitions of words

b. a book containing statistics

c. a book containing maps

d. a book containing an alphabetical or classified list of people or organizations

28. In electronic databases the best way to describe the difference between a keyword search and a descriptor or controlled vocabulary search is:

a. "keyword searches" search only keywords and "descriptor searches" search only descriptor words

b. "keyword searches" produce more and better records

c. "keyword searches" search words in various parts of the database and "descriptor searches" search only the descriptor section of the database

d. "keywords" are supplied by the author whereas "descriptor words" come from Roget's Thesaurus

29. Your professor asks you to find a literature review on tuberculosis. You are looking for:

a. a literary article on tuberculosis

b. an article which summarizes current research on tuberculosis

c. an article which reviews books on tuberculosis

d. an encyclopedia article on tuberculosis

30. While searching a database you type in the keyword "neonatal" and get over 6,500 records. One of those records is about Advanced Life Support. What is the best way to find the other records that focus precisely on this topic?

a. find the subject heading(s) or descriptor term(s) for this record and search under those terms

b. add the keywords "Advanced," "Life" and "Support" to the keyword search

c. look for other material by the author

d. do a topic search

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