Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)

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HaPI is an Essential Collection of Information on Behavioral Measurement Instruments.

Produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services, this comprehensive bibliographic database is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences. It also provides information about behavioral measurement instruments, including those from Industrial Organizational Behavior and Education.

A Rich Resource with Extensive Coverage

Encompassing nearly 190,000 records, HaPI is comprised of bibliographic information for peer-reviewed scholarly journals, books, technical reports, and test publishers’ catalogs. The essential resource for researchers, students, clinicians and more, HaPI features coverage of more than 80 unique behavioral measurement tools and instruments which are used across professions and disciplines, including nursing, public health, psychology, social work, communication, sociology, and organizational behavior or human resources.

Updated on a quarterly basis, HaPI is also continuously adding new records, further supplementing researchers with up-to-date, high-quality information.

Provides a Detailed Record for Every Entry

Each record within HaPI includes the following detailed information: title, acronym, authors, language, index terms and references. Some records also contain abstracts, sample items, number of questions, subscales, reliability and other information.

Nursing Assessment in Video

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April 2016 Database of the Month

Nursing Assessment in Video provides demonstrations and step-by-step instructions for performing physical assessments of patients.

Nursing Assessment in Video is an online database that provides access to the best-selling assessment series of training videos from Medcom Inc. Each title features leading industry experts providing hands-on demonstrations and step-by-step instructions in key assessment areas. All content was produced since 2012, so users can depend on the collection to deliver the most accurate, up-to-date information available.

Topical Coverage

Titles in Nursing Assessment in Video include:

  • The Respiratory System
  • The Key to Quality Patient Care
  • The Musculoskeletal System
  • The Digestive System
  • The Integumentary System
  • Head and Neck, Mouth and Throat
  • Eyes, Ears, and Nose
  • The Male Genitourinary System
  • Head-to-Toe Assessment
  • The Female Genitourinary System
  • The Cardiovascular System, Part 1: Anatomy and Subjective Data
  • The Cardiovascular System, Part 2: Objective Data
  • The Nervous System, Part 1: Anatomy and Subjective Data
  • The Nervous System, Part 2: Objective Data

 

CINAHL Training – 11/17 & 11/18

CINAHL

With full text coverage dating back to 1937, CINAHL Plus is a comprehensive research tool for all areas of nursing, allied health, and complementary and alternative therapies literature.

The FAU Libraries are offering training sessions by a professional CINAHL trainer:

Boca Campus
Friday, November 18th
2:00 – 3:30
S.E. Wimberly Library Instruction Lab, Room 136
RSVP:  Jane Strudwick , 561-297-0492

Treasure Coast Campus
Thursday, November 17th
2:00 – 3:30
JU 134/Library Computer Lab (TCC JU Library)
RSVP: Pam Alderman, 772.873.3311

Get Friendly with CINAHL

 

Familiarize yourself with the Nursing and Allied Health database, CINAHL, and discover new teaching tools. A special section of EBSCO’s Support Site (http://support.ebscohost.com/cinahl) is dedicated to a “wide variety of support and training tools designed to help you learn how to get the most from EBSCO’s CINAHL database.”  

Some of these tools include:

Visit http://training.ebsco.com to sign up for free webinars.

Click here for Off Campus Connect (EZProxy).

Natural Standard – December Database of the Month

Natural Standard was founded by clinicians and researchers to provide high quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. This international multidisciplinary collaboration now includes contributors from more than 100 eminent academic institutions. Read More >>

Click here for on-campus access to Natural Standard
Click here for Off Campus Connect (EZproxy) access to Natural Standard