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  1. Would you pay for any online nursing memberships?

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      YES! The information on the site is invaluable. I can definitely benefit.
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      No, I don't see value in paying for online nursing memberships.

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so I can be supplied with valuable information that I can regularly use". With so many resources available online, what are some things that you wish you had access to but don't, and are willing to pay for? Regardless of your specialty area or whether you are no longer practicing clinically. What information do you want to have access to that would be invaluable?

For example, resume review, mentoring, etc?

Please share your thoughts.

Specializes in orthopedic/trauma, Informatics, diabetes.

full article, peer reviewed research articles. If I going to do EBP, I want access to the research. We have policies and procedures in place with citations, but usually you have to have student or faculty access to CINAHL and the likes. I recently found out that as an employee of a teaching hospital, I DO have access through the library but haven't accessed it yet.

Thank you mmc51264, BSN, RN for your reply! When I first started my nursing career, it was very difficult to gain access to literature review articles. Our hospital librarian was one of the few people that had access those databases. Years later, the same issue remains.

Specializes in SICU, trauma, neuro.
full article, peer reviewed research articles. If I going to do EBP, I want access to the research. We have policies and procedures in place with citations, but usually you have to have student or faculty access to CINAHL and the likes. I recently found out that as an employee of a teaching hospital, I DO have access through the library but haven't accessed it yet.

This! I can't tell you how many abstracts I thought sounded fabulous for a paper in my BSN bridge, but they charged for access. I'm a very busy working mom and greatly prefer researching a topic in my bedroom, on my laptop after the kids are asleep....NOT going to a school or hospital's medical libe during regular business hours.

NSIN, do you work for one of these memberships that we would pay for, or are you asking for your own personal info?

Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Hmmm...I use UpToDate, Cochrane's Review and several others that my practice pays for....

Understood. Having personal access is definitely a time-saver.

No, I don't work for any membership companies. I am interested in launching online educational services for nurses and interested in knowing what fellow nurses would willingly pay for to further their career development. In asking colleagues, I've gotten some great feedback. Hoping I can also gather information from nurses worldwide as well.

TraumaRUs, are you able to personally access these sites on your own or are there a limited number of access keys per your practice?

Thank you mmc51264, BSN, RN for your reply! When I first started my nursing career, it was very difficult to gain access to literature review articles. Our hospital librarian was one of the few people that had access those databases. Years later, the same issue remains.

Wow. That info should be available to all clinical staff at a minimum.

In the area I live, the hospitals provide access to their medical library to the whole community. They see that as part of their mission.

When a good friend graduated with her Master's of Library Science in 1980, her first job was in a hospital library. Part of her job was to assist patients, families, and members of the community in finding information available through the library. The librarians' only complaint was that the library was located in some obscure corner where they were hard for people to find.

Now the library is located in the center of the main floor visible from the lobby. There are a dozen terminals for anyone to use to access information. There are journals, books, etc. available to everyone. Only hospital staff can "check out" journals and books, but anyone can use the library for research.

I have a lifetime access to a library from my nursing school days. It's got all kinds of good stuff, from Davis's Drug to CINAHL. If that goes away, I would pay for access to scholarly articles and updated drug info. But not a lot. Maybe $50 a year.

Specializes in orthopedic/trauma, Informatics, diabetes.

I have two kids with T1 diabetes and I really want access to the endocrine research. Now that I have a name, I can get full articles, I always could, just ever pursued it. In my BSN program (online) I had access to nursing journals, but not all of the medical ones.

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