This guide discusses research strategies for the technology in nursing education assignment. If you'd like more help as you're doing research for your projects, contact your librarian for the School of Nursing and Health Professions:
At this point in your graduate career, you've done research for several courses and are likely familiar with some places to search and strategies for searching. You'll use some of those same resources and strategies for this assignment. However, due to the unique nature of this course and assignment, you may also find yourself looking in places that you may not have looked in previous courses.
Databases are still one of the best places to look for articles and books on a topic. Below are some recommended ones for this project. These databases cover several different fields -- nursing, medicine, and health; technology; business management; and education -- since this project involves all of these topics.
If you're not sure which one to use, you can start with OneSearch, which will show results from several of our databases at once.
If you'd like to search one database at a time, try some of these:
Nursing, Medicine, Health, and Technology:
Contains research and scholarly information in the fields of nursing and allied health. Additional resources include evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons, and continuing education modules.
Includes more than 31 million references to journal articles in life sciences, with a concentration on biomedicine.
Contains more than 37 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. Full-text articles are often available as links to other sources, such as the publisher's website or PubMed Central (PMC).
Includes full-text scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines, geared toward researchers, allied health professionals, nurses, and medical educators. Health topics covered include food science, childcare, sports medicine, and more.
A comprehensive database for research in psychology, behavioral sciences and mental health. Includes dissertations, book chapters, technical reports and other documents.
Business Management, including Healthcare Management:
A comprehensive, full text database covering all areas of business research. Includes detailed company information, industry reports, market research, and SWOT analyses.
Education:
Large collection of education research and information, including journal articles, books, conference papers, reports, and more, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences.
Comprehensive database includes full text for thousands of education journals, books and conference papers.
Although books and ebooks are not usually peer-reviewed, they can be helpful for background information on a topic or product. Try some of these databases for ebooks:
A collection of full-text academic e-books on a wide variety of subjects.
A multi-disciplinary collection of e-books covering a wide range of academic subjects from leading publishers and university presses.
Here are some suggested books and book chapters on the topic of technology in nursing education. These all came from the ebook databases listed above, so if you like the idea of using a book but they're not quite what you want, try searching for additional titles.
Teaching in Nursing and Role of the Educator
by
This all-inclusive text on teaching in nursing is by one of the pre-eminent nurse educators in the United States: Dr. Marilyn Oermann. The only book to focus on the full academic role, it is designed to provide graduate-level nursing students with all of the competencies essential for effective teaching. This evidence-based text encompasses both theoretical and practical information and includes content on teaching and learning, assessment and evaluation, curriculum development, using technology , teaching in simulation, learning lab and online courses, models for clinical teaching, scholarship and evidence-based education, and other components of the educator role. Each chapter begins with goals and concludes with a content summary. Relevant research is cited to provide evidence for the concepts presented.. Chapters include practical examples of the methods and strategies presented and ìhow toî tips for readers. The book features an on-line teaching guide that includes PowerPoint slides, Case Examples, a Sample Course Syllabus, and Online Course Materials including chapters summaries, learner activities, discussion questions, and selected assessment strategies. In addition to her renown as a highly respected educator, Dr. Oermann has authored 14 books including Evaluation and Testing in Nursing and Education, Third Edition, Springer Publishing, 2013. Key Features: Covers, in just one text, the complete span of theoretical and practical knowledge essential for effective teaching in nursing Written by renowned nurse-educators and authors Integrates relevant research and practical examples in each chapter Addresses the main test blueprint for CNE Certification Exam Strong focus on technology in teaching by experts in their fields, including chapters on: Integrating Technology in Education Clinical Simulations Teaching in Online Learning Environments Instructor resource includes: Course Syllabus, PowerPoint prsentations for each chapter, Online Course with 16 modules with summaries, learning activities, discussion questions, online resources, selected case studies, and assessment strategies
Innovative Teaching Strategies in Nursing and Related Health Professions
by
Learners are accessing and organizing information much differently than they did only a few years ago. Technology has changed the way students learn and educators teach. The updated Innovative Teaching Strategies in Nursing and Related Health Professions, Eighth Edition details the trends in teaching strategies and educational technology that promote effective learning for today's students. The Eighth Edition has been updated to provide the most current information and strategies for online learning and incorporating technology across settings. Chapters on blended learning and study abroad programs help students to gain a more diverse and increased global perspective. Highlighting innovative teaching techniques and real-world illustrations of the educational strategies, this text goes beyond theory to offer practical application principles that educators can count on.
Sometimes you'll already know a journal you want to use -- for example, if your professor recommended a journal, or if you have a reading that was assigned in class -- but you don't know where to look to get articles from that journal. In these cases, use Find a Journal to see which database to use.
Visit the library website and click the blue 
button.
Type the title of the journal in the search box. It will tell you if SU has it and, if so, which years are available in which database(s). For example, if I want Nursing Education Perspectives, I'll need to look in Academic Search, Health Source, or CINAHL.
If you don't know the title of a specific journal, but you're interested in a certain topic -- for example, nursing education -- you can also type that in the box and see which journals we have on that topic.
Remember that this search is finding entire journals, not individual sources on your topic. Once you figure out which database to search in, you'll still need to go to that database and search for articles, books, book chapters, or whatever else you need.
When you search for articles and books in the library databases, you may see one or more of these icons. Some will open the full text of the article directly; others will help you find any text that may be available to you.
|
|
PDF or PDF Full Text opens in a new window, or you can download and save it to your computer. PDF files are great because they show exactly how the source was originally published, including images, graphs, tables, and charts.
|
|
|
Online Full Text or HTML Full Text will display in your browser. It includes all the text but may not have images, graphs, tables, and charts.
|
 |
View Complete Issue will show you the full text article along with the others that were published in that issue of the journal. This can be helpful if you're trying to find more articles on the same topic or from the same journal.
|
|
|
A database name, such as JSTOR, ScienceDirect, or Nexis Uni, means that you can click the link and the article will open in that database.
|
|
|
Full Text Finder will search the library's databases to see if we have the source anywhere. Please note, if you get the "Go to Full Text Finder Results" message, click the link to load your search results.
|
 |
Retrieve Catalog Item opens the item's record in our library catalog. There may be a link to an ebook or streaming video, or there may be a location and a call number for a physical item. |
