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The Library has multiple copies of HESI A2 books in the HESI Course Reserve.
There are 3 different HESI items.
One is for the Nursing Admission Exam (specific name of that test is HESI A2.) Students take this exam in order to gain admittance into the ADN Program. However, any nursing entrance exam test prep resource will work because they all test the same content: math, science, and verbal skills. In addition to the “official” entrance study guides, these more generic nursing exam prep books may be useful. In addition, ACT and SAT review books may be helpful in preparing for nursing admission exams.
The other two HESI books measure learning post program and indicates prep and readiness for either the NCLEX-RN or NCLEX-PN. These books would be sought out by COD Nurses that want to get their PN licensure (after completing the first year of the 2-year ADN program) or their RN licensure upon completion of the 2-year ADN program.
Check the Library Catalog for HESI book availability and duration of check out. The Library Catalog is also THE place to access Library copies of other required or recommended nursing program test prep books such as Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN®.
Supports those looking to improve core academic skills, pass a high school equivalency test, prepare for college, explore careers, join the military, study for occupational certification tests, become a U.S. citizen and much more. Contains practice tests, interactive tutorials, e-books, articles, and flashcards.
The good news is that there are a lot of templates available to assist you in creating both trifold and bifold brochures.
Microsoft Office products (including Office 365, PowerPoint, Word, and Publisher) all have trifold (and bifold) brochure templates.
If you do a simple Google Search for trifold brochure templates a bunch of options will pop up including templates/directions for making them in Office products (mentioned above) as well as with Google Docs and more.
Need help getting started? You can always stop by the Library's Computing Support & Printing Services Desk (located on the main floor of the Library) or at either of the Library's Reference Desks (conveniently located on each floor of the Library) for some one-on-one assistance.
A great place to start looking for credible, patient-level, educational materials is MedlinePlus.gov
For video tutorials on creating nursing concept maps, go to YouTube and search for nursing concept maps. There are a lot of examples available! Here's one to get you started.
Nursing Concept Maps: How To Create Them For Nursing School (Mini-Training)
Description:
Concept maps are vital to your study success in nursing school. In this video we'll cover why concept maps are so important, the main categories you should include in each concept map you make during nursing school, and 4 specific questions to ask as you create your concept maps (to help you totally ROCK them).
If you're interested in text-based explanations, stick to Google, or your search engine of choice, and search for nursing concept maps.
Tailor your search terms to get the type of concept map information that you really need. For example, you might search for nursing concept map templates. Another tip is to do an image search for nursing concept maps, nursing care plan concept maps, or you can even try to search for nursing concept maps on specific topics just to see what is out there (for example, search for nursing concept map hypertension). Concept maps are popular in nursing and many students and nurses have shared their creations online in a variety of formats.
Concept maps need to contain all the information in your assignment rubric, but how you choose to display that material is up to you and your personal style/preference. Just remember that the visual map needs to be clear and understandable to not just you, but also to your intended audience.
Check out all the useful APA resources described and linked from the Research Toolkit (blue, left-hand navigation link on this Nursing Research guide)
You may also benefit from reviewing my handout: Sample Nursing APA 7th ed. References
Remember that you can always seek APA citation assistance from Library reference staff as well as the WRSA coaches in the Learning Commons!
For this research paper, you will need to get a lot of the information from your patient history (and if you didn't get all the information you needed, check with your instructor. They may be able to pull up a patient's record and supplement your history/notes).
From the patient history, you will select the primary disease/condition and/or surgical procedure (sometimes it is just a disease or condition, but if your patient had a surgical procedure, you may need to research not only for the disease/condition but also for the procedure.
Also, a lot of the pathophysiology and background on your patient's disease/condition, and/or surgical procedure as well as many other nursing aspects of caring for patients with the disease (or recovering from a surgical procedure) can be found in your course textbook as well as in a nursing handbooks or manuals such as your required Ackley text (Nursing Diagnosis Handbook) or Davis's Diseases & Disorders or Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice (these last two are available from the Library in both print and e-book format).
You don't just need three nursing journal articles, two of them must be research articles.
Effects of early mobilization on pulmonary parameters and complications post coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
Academic Journal
(includes abstract) Esmealy, Leyla; Allahbakhshian, Atefeh; Gholizadeh, Leila; Khalili, Azizeh Farshbaf; Sarbakhsh, Parvin Applied Nursing Research, Feb2023; 69 N.PAG-N.PAG. 1p. (Article - research, randomized controlled trial) ISSN: 0897-1897
Does your article need to have a nurse as the first author?
Some assignments have this requirement. If so, DO NOT use the CINAHL limiter for 1st author is nurse. Why? Because most articles in nursing journals are written by nurses. The limiter may exclude more good articles than it includes.
Instead, limit to the journal subset nursing and then actually look at the articles to see if the author's credentials are provided (they usually are OR the article will list the author's affiliation and that usually indicates a nursing faculty member or nurse). It takes some critical thinking and careful checking to make the 1st author is nurse determination. You may have to copy the first author's name and paste it into Google along with any other information you have (such as where the author works if that is provided in the article). You can often confirm education/degrees and profession via personal or organization web pages.
Before you begin researching your questions in CINAHL, it is important to identify all of the key words or phrases in your question. You will need to perform more than one CINAHL search to locate all of the information necessary to answer your assigned question(s). You may also need to combine searches utilizing the search history feature of CINAHL. Don't hesitate to seek help from reference staff or your NHS Librarian!
Review the CINAHL Search Tips page of the COD Library's Nursing Research Guide
Search Tips:
Why you SHOULD NOT limit to Full Text when searching CINAHL
Limiting to "full text" in CINAHL will exclude relevant full text articles, such as content from the Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (as well as other full text nursing journals that may be available in PubMed, Science Direct or other resources).
Do not limit to “full text.” If full text is not available (indicated by a PDF icon beneath a full text article citation), click on the "find this" OR “full text via LibKey” links located directly beneath citations in your results. Clicking these links either will take you to the journal's catalog record where there will be a green link to the full text of a given article, or LibKey will provide you with either a link to the full text article or a direct link.
IF an article is NOT available full text, the Library catalog record will indicate that, and you can fill out an ILL (inter library loan) form <https://library.cod.edu/ill> receiving the article for FREE within 3-5 days via email. The nursing research guide has the directions and links to the form on several guide pages.
Use CINAHL to research your ethics topic because:
Use Debra's helpful handouts (linked below) to assist you with you discussion board post APA citations as well as with your Nurse Sensitive Indicators Poster/Presentation:
Remember to utilize the APA resources included in the Research Toolkit section of this research guide (see blue, right-hand navigation bar). APAStyle.org offers a wide variety of helpful resources. Under the Instructional Aids section of APA's website, you'll find handouts, checklists as well as Sample APA Student Paper Templates (in Word format).
In-text citation is covered in Chapter 8 of the APA Style Manual, Seventh Edition.
For online in-text citation examples, see:
https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations/index
Note that most COD nursing instructors prefer that you use all three in-text citation elements when summarizing just as you are required to do for direct quotes. Instructors want to quickly and easily locate the passage(s) that you are paraphrasing. When in doubt, check with your instructor! example: (Evans, 2019, p. 498)
In addition to the handout, make sure to look at the CINAHL Search Tips section of this research guide (blue, right-hand navigation bar) where you will find more tips and short "help" videos on utilizing CINAHL.
As with all of your research projects, begin your research early.
Follow the steps below: