Nursing and Allied Health: Training Videos

CINAHL Complete Database

Provides journals from the top nursing and allied health literature available and covers a wide range of topics including nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, alternative medicine, complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.

• VIDEO:  CINAHL Basic Search Video Tutorial
• VIDEO: CINAHL Advanced Search Video Tutorial
• VIDEO: Using the CINAHL MeSH Subject Headings | 3:32
• Excel: What journals am I searching in CINAHL Complete? (download file)
• VIDEO: CINAHL with Full-Text | Help Sheet | print the web page
• VIDEO: CINAHL Evidence Based Care Sheets & Quick Lessons | 4:44 min.
• VIDEO: CINAHL Continuing Education Modules | 2:17 min

MedLine Database

Medline is the primary component of PubMed, a literature database developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).  see: Medline History. Time coverage:  1966 - Present (see:  Old MEDLINE Data)

• VIDEO:  Medline Tutorial (EBSCO)
• Medline Basic Tutorial |  Katharine Holmes  | 3:43
• VIDEO:  Searching Using MeSH Terms on MEDLINE | 2:46 min.
• VIDEO Medline Advanced Search | 5:47 min.

Ovid Database

For Over 20 years, OVID has been a vital part of global healthcare research, learning and practice.  With over 6 million images, videos, and podcasts as well as content from more than 120 premier publishing partners, Ovid helps librarians, clinicians, researchers, students, instructors and other healthcare professionals find the information they need to make critical decisions that improve patient care, enhance ongoing research, and fuel new discoveries.

Ovid Help What is a Database | Wolters Kluyer | 5:12 min.

• Basic Search on the Ovid Search Platform | Wolters Kluyer | 9:32 min.
• Searching with Keywords in Ovid Medline | Cardiff | 4:05 min.c
• Ovid Help The Database Field Guide | Wolters Kluyer | 5 min.
• Ovid Help Example of a Basic Search | Wolters Kluyer | 11:47 min.
• Ovid Help Tips on using Ovid Help | Wolters Kluyer | 3:39 min.

 ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Premium

Whether it's supporting a clinical research study or providing faculty with instructional multimedia content to help students connect theory to practice, librarians rely on the Nursing & Allied Health Database for its diverse mix of scholarly literature, clinical training videos, reference materials, and evidence-based resources, including dissertations and systematic reviews. This database is uniquely suited for students, instructors, researchers, and healthcare professionals.

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• What's New in ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Premium (What's New)
• Search Tips

PubMed Database

PubMed is a free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health - both globally and personally.  The PubMed database contains more than 30 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. Both PubMed and CINAHL are built on a subject thesaurus:  the MeSH Tree or the CINAHL Tree

• VIDEO: Creating a MyNCBI Account | UAL | 3:37 Min.
• VIDEO: PubMed: Building a Search | Welch Medical Library | Min. 17:13
• VIDEO: PubMed: Search Like a Pro | Welch Medical Library | 46:27 Min.
• VIDEO: PubMed Advanced Search Builder  | USC | 4:30 Min.
• HANDOUTS: Trainer's Toolkit | National Library of Medicine | Handouts (download)

SAGE Journals

Sage Journals allow you to browse by journal name, browse by topic or perform an advanced search. 

The Sage Journals platform (journals.sagepub.com) delivers 1,000+ journals with full text archives and advanced research tools, available both on journal websites and a unified portal, therefore:

• Sage Journals are cataloged in Journals Full Text Finder by individual title.
• Creating your profile on SAGE Research Methods (Format: PDF) We recommend all users create a profile on the platform, so that you can save useful resources and organize them into lists, save your search results for the future, and create custom video clips.
• Sage Training Guide:  Boolean Operators.
• An introduction to SAGE Journals (Format: PowerPoint)
• SAGE Research Methods overview video (Format: MP4 Video) The video covers: searching and browsing for interesting content; creating reading lists; the different content types, and how they can be used in teaching and research; and the Research Tools - Methods Map and Project Planner.
• An introduction to SAGE Research Methods (Format: PowerPoint) You can dip in and out to learn about something specific, or follow the whole presentation in order, depending on your needs.

• SAGE Research Methods user guide (Format: PDF)  Core functions of SAGE Research Methods, including searching and browsing for content, setting up a personal profile and adding items to Reading Lists.

• SAGE Journals Trainer's top tips for faculty, researchers, and students (Format: PDF)

• SAGE Journals Knowledge Base FAQS  (Format: Web link)