Library Resources for Change Project
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The library has a number of resources available to help you in your research. Much of your research will rely on nursing and medical journals and resources. You can get to these through a library web page called Core & More, and selecting Nursing. Here you will find links to CINAHL, the preeminent nursing database, as well as Medline and other medical databases. You may want to check out some of the other disciplines in Core & More as well. For example, the Marketing link will take you to business resources that will provide information on healthcare as an industry. If you are interested in Women's Health, you may want to check out some of the resources under Women. 

Below are some library resources that may be useful to you in researching your Change Project in addition to the resources provided by your instructor. These are just a sampling of resources available. Librarians (including myself) are available to help you use these resources and/or direct you to other relevant materials. You can reach a reference librarian at library.reference@uwec.edu or toll-free at 877-267-1384 .

 

Societal Forces

Academic Universe: This enormous, fulltext database has several sections that may be very useful for your project. (When searching this database, please note that the default search is set to search only the last 6 months. You can change this to include articles from a year, two years or several years in your search).

Newspaper databases: Newspapers are great resources for finding out about current political, societal, economic, and cultural forces. With a newspaper database, you can search on a particular topic or event, and retrieve news articles related to it. I especially like Proquest Newspapers, which includes fulltext from a number of national and regional newspapers.

AltHealthWatch: This fulltext databases includes news articles and other types of publications particularly in relation to alternative medicine.

Sociology and Social Work databases: These databases cover a broad range of sociological issues. SWAB, for example, covers social work and social policy issues. Family & Society Studies covers issues related to families, child welfare, human development, etc.

 

Forces within the health care industry

Some of the business databases could be very useful in locating articles that talk about the business of healthcare. ABI Inform and RDS Business Suite are good ones. RDS Business Suite lets you limit your search to specific Concept Terms, such as ethics, environmental policies, healthcare regulations and hundreds more. It also lets you limit your search to a particular industry, such as healthcare providers.

 

Internal capability of the organization

Associations Unlimited provides information on and links to thousands of associations.

 

Target Markets

Many of the Sociology and newspaper resources mentioned above will be useful in this section. For healthcare-related statistics, Academic Universe's section on statistics could be useful.

RDS Business Suite lets you limit a search by Concept Terms such as demographics and consumer behavior.

The U.S. Census website provides a wealth of demographic data.

 

APA Documentation

While the print version of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA Handbook) is the most thorough source of information on APA style, the following websites are useful: