This paper presents a research database matrix evaluating five major scholarly databases relevant to nursing education and bipolar disorder: the NIH Intramural Database, the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI®), BioMed Central, The Cochrane Library, and HighWire. For each database, the paper describes its general purpose, organizational structure, and search capabilities, then explains its specific relevance to nursing education topics including teaching simulation, nursing quality indicators, and bipolar disorder management. The matrix is designed to help nursing students identify and access high-quality, peer-reviewed resources that support both clinical practice knowledge and evidence-based research skills.
The following matrix identifies and evaluates five major research databases relevant to nursing education and bipolar disorder. Each entry describes the database's purpose, organizational features, and search capabilities, followed by an explanation of its specific relevance to these areas of study.
Location: http://intramural.nih.gov/index.tml
The stated objective of the NIH Intramural Database is to collect and disseminate data gathered from research projects conducted by the Intramural programs of the Institutes and Centers of the National Institutes of Health. This includes studies commissioned by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and dozens of other national health research institutes. The database also employs a variety of human biospecimen data to index its holdings, allowing search parameters to be refined according to blood type, cell, or genomic lines.
The NIH Intramural Database is relevant to nursing education research because it contains dozens of scholarly articles on the subject of clinical nursing, including several that pertain solely to the concept of teaching simulation in nursing schools.
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The National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI®) is the United States' sole national database for documenting nursing quality measurement and archiving this data for hospital use. By collecting and evaluating unit-specific nursing data from American hospitals, the NDNQI provides comparative data to expedite quality improvement processes.
The NDNQI is relevant to nursing education research because it contains a wealth of material on nursing-sensitive measures that reflect the structure, process, and outcomes of nursing care, including Nurse Turnover Rate, RN Education/Certification, and Nursing Skill Mix. Building a knowledge base with regard to these factors of the nursing profession in the early stages of development as a nursing student helps anticipate obstacles and act with initiative, rather than simply reacting to urgent circumstances.
Location: http://www.biomedcentral.com/
"Open-access biomedical research aggregator"
"Six-database healthcare evidence archive"
"Stanford's largest free full-text science archive"
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