Respiratory Care
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Welcome to the Respiratory Care Research Guide!
Welcome to the Respiratory Care research guide. Use the tabs on the left to navigate to resource links. Most resources required that you login from off-campus using your Delta username and password.
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Topic Background (Reference Sources)
Reference Resources include materials like Dictionaries and Encyclopedias. They can be a great introduction to a topic and can help you become familiar with the keywords, names and events associated with your topic!
Try these online reference resources from the Library.
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Gale Encyclopedia of MedicineIncludes information on almost 2,000 medical disorders and concepts.
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Merck Manual Professional EditionThe Manual is one of the most widely used comprehensive medical resources for professionals and consumers. As the Manual evolved, it continually expanded the reach and depth of its offerings to reflect the mission of providing the best medical information of the day to a wide cross-section of users, including medical professionals and students, veterinarians and veterinary students, and consumers.
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Credo ReferencePublications in this Database include the Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health, Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy Through Adolescence, Occupational Outlook Handbook, The Gale Encyclopedia of Senior Health.
CINAHL and PubMed Tutorials
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CINAHL Databases - Basic Searching TutorialThis tutorial demonstrates the basic searching features of the suite of CINAHL databases on EBSCOhost.
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CINAHL Databases - Advanced Searching TutorialsThis tutorial demonstrates the advanced searching features of the suite of CINAHL databases on EBSCOhost.
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PubMed: Find Articles on a TopicA brief tutorial on how to find articles on a topic using PubMed.
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PubMed: Get the full text for an articleA brief tutorial on how to get the full text for an article cited in PubMed.
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Using PubMed in Evidence-Based Practice TutorialWhen conducting research, evidence-based practice is a method for framing clinical questions that will help yield optimal search results. PubMed.gov is a free research tool from the National Library of Medicine®. This course will show you how to use evidence-based practice when searching clinical questions using PubMed®.
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What is in PubMed?Learn what you can find in PubMed, and how it got there.
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