My favorite was the nursing professor, who had many letters after her name,
hired in to teach evidence-based nursing. She would ask me for searches,
particularly specifying that I should be sure to check "Advance for
Nurses," as it was (and I quote) "an excellent source of evidence-based
information."

::thunk::



On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Harrington, Molly - SJHMC <
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> Not just "evidence-based" but from a "peer-reviewed" journal. I have yet
> to find a journal that doesn't call itself "peer-reviewed", including most
> of those found on Mr. Beall's erstwhile list. When nursing students come
> in with those parameters, I know that the instructor hasn't a clue about
> what constitutes a quality publication.
>
> So annoying!
>
> Molly
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> Do I hear you on this topic! I have both nurses trying to improve things
> and nurses going back to school who want to work on topics relevant to
> their work. It has gotten to the point where I can usually tell if there
> might be some literature on the topic just by hearing it before looking.
> These are great topics. Things that should be researched but as I tell
> them, if no one has published it makes it really hard to find.
>
> As for those crazy requirements for what articles qualify for nurses in
> school, this is truly one of my biggest pet peeves and a lot of my APNs and
> nurse educators know how annoying this is to me. I mean if a technique for
> preventing falls worked 10 years ago, what has changed that would make that
> not valid today? Then telling them to find "evidence-based articles" so
> then the poor nurses are looking for articles that specifically state that
> they are evidence-based. Aaaarrrrgggggggghhhhhhh!
>
> Karen Bontekoe
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> From: Medical Libraries Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Truex, Eleanor
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2017 7:08 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [MEDLIB-L] CHAT: There are no articles on your subject
>
> Ha! I keep a list of the articles (and it is not long) that satisfy the
> (I'm sorry, it must be said, insane) criteria by some of the local nursing
> colleges. There is one in particular, not in this state, but the next one
> over (and the RNs are usually doing distance-learning) that is way over
> the top. I have to wonder if the profs realize that what they are doing is
> completely turning students OFF of nursing research. I've handled at least
> 100 of these students and NONE of them have ever expressed an interest in
> conducting research--this is merely a hoop they must jump through. I'm not
> even sure if this approach teaches a healthy respect for research after
> these folks realize they now have to write a paper on a subject they have
> no interest in, but that meets the criteria laid out by their prof. The
> profs at the over-the-top school even take points off for first attempts at
> getting the criteria met (the paper isn't even written yet!). Baffling if
> the goal is to create more n!
>
> ursing researchers...
>
> I confess I am puzzled by the university's librarians, but think that
> perhaps they don't know about this practice? So many uni students don't use
> their uni libraries as much as they should (and students tend to think a
> library is a library is a library and it's more convenient to stop in at
> work etc). Then again, perhaps they also tired of beating their heads
> against that particular wall. I'm not disparaging university librarians by
> any means; IMO the fault lies in the original criteria and the approach to
> teaching nursing research.
>
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Medical Libraries Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Julie Stielstra
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2017 8:33 AM
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>
> I remember that battle all too well when I worked in a nursing school
> library, and again (and worse this time!) when our hospital started
> requiring BSN/MSN education of nurses and a zillion of them went back to
> school, heavily through online courses. I had nurses in tears in my
> office. In the actual nursing school, I gave a talk at faculty meetings
> about the issue, and they totally got it, adding layers of priority to
> their criteria. The distance-learning folks were out of luck... faculty
> typically obdurate and would not budge - if it wasn't peer-reviewed, less
> than 5 years old, authored by a nurse in a nursing journal, they wouldn't
> accept it, period. It was so frustrating for the poor students.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 8:03 AM, Guessferd, Mary <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > When working with students, I would notice they are so hung up on
> > getting the research that checks off all the required boxes, that it
> > became necessary to explain to them the nursing research cycle, and
> > then send them back top their professors to request latitude when
> > research those topics which were aging out of the 5 year rule. I
> > noticed that this year many assignments had extended the limit back to
> 10 years!
> >
> > Mimi Guessferd
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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dina J. McKelvy [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2017 8:24 AM
> > Subject: Re: CHAT: There are no articles on your subject
> >
> > Or the Jedi librarian response:
> >
> > "If an item does not appear in our records, it does not exist!"
> >
> > http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jocasta_Nu
> >
> > !!!
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> > From: Medical Libraries Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > On Behalf Of Truex, Eleanor
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2017 2:16 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: CHAT: There are no articles on your subject
> >
> > I've gotten to the point (especially with nursing, which demands new
> > research, constantly) of saying to those who just don't give up: looks
> > like you might be the one who has to do the most recent research! I
> > say it with a smile. 99.9% of them take my point. Good luck!
> >
> >
> > Eleanor Truex
> > Medical Librarian, Lakeshore Region
> >
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> > On Behalf Of Olson, Paula
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2017 12:12 PM
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> >
> > Lately I’ve been getting requests for searches on what where hot
> > topics from years ago. Hourly/purposeful rounding, infant alarms.
> > Requestors want the last few years. There are not many articles
> > written on hourly rounding from the last 2 years (according to CINAHL
> > and OVID MEDLINE and please do not reply with search strategies).
> > However, these people just don’t seem to understand that sometimes
> > topics haven’t been updated. How do you reply nicely that “I’ve
> > looked at the lit on your subject and there is nothing more current?”
> > I guess that is one way, but sometimes people need to be hit over the
> head.
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