Libraries Learning Commons: Personal Support Worker Sources: Journals + Databases

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7 Steps to the Perfect PICO search
Evidence-Based Nursing Practice: A document that will explain PICO and how to use the strategy in your research and for assignments. Patient/Problem, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome (PICO). A document created by Kathy A. Jensen, EBSCO Health, with references inside document.

Canadian Nursing Homes (online)
Directed to owners, administrative personnel, directors of care, nurses and other health professionals involved in the care of residents in long-term care/nursing home facilities.
Health (available in print and online) by Alt HealthWatch -- Publications
Articles on all aspects of personal health, fitness, drugs, recent news of note and healthy cooking for a general readership.
Home Healthcare Now (available online)
Home Healthcare Now is a refereed, interprofessional journal published 10 times/year. The goal of Home Healthcare Now is to bring up-to-date and practical articles to home care and hospice providers of all disciplines involved in home healthcare.
Perspectives (online only) by (Gerontological Nursing Association (Canada)
Call Number: Proquest
Perspectives (Formerly, the Journal of the Gerontological Nursing Association Ontario), the e-Journal of the Canadian Gerontological Nursing Association has as its mission, the promotion of optimum health for aging individuals and their families through the development of gerontological nursing.

Directory of Open Access Journals
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Search keywords in the Applied Health Fields like dental, pharmacy, occupational therapist, paramedic, personal support worker, nursing, health sciences.
Journals@OVID LWW
LWW OVID Nursing Journals package 2023. Access to about 100 journal titles.
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https://clear.scholarsportal.info/licenses/Ovid

Alt-HealthWatch
CINAHL Ultimate
CINAHL Ultimate is the new definitive resource for nursing and allied health research, providing full text for more of the most used journals in the CINAHL index than any other database. It covers more than 50 nursing specialties and includes quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, CEU modules and research instruments.
Ebook Central
Health & Medical Collection
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
MEDLINE with Full Text
ProQuest Central
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Premium
Public Health Database
Science Database

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Premium Video Titles (August 2022)
Access via logging into database, current video titles from Medcom, on a variety of health, nursing, and massage therapy topics. Regularly updated and reviewed for standards/best practices/content.