Where do I find this impossible request for research articles?

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Ok, I have a case study due in a few days and I have completed most of it, but I am required to use three research articles in my plan of care..sounds easy right? Well these articles must be less than five years old, and I must use ONE nursing intervention from each research article on a nursing care plan, but the catch is..it must be a new nursing intervention not found in any of our text books. Not only this, but it must be an actual research article done by a nurse or nurses and the research must be on CRF, ESRD or something to do with kidney failure. I have found many research articles but most do not contain interventions...it HAS TO BE reasearch and cannot be anything else. I have spend 4 hours just looking for articles and found one I can actually "create" an intervention for. I'm reaching on this one, but I really need someone to help me out here..point me to a few more research articles where I can get a new intervention for just one care plan for risk for fluid volume excess or even activity intolerance. Heck I will build a care plan around any new intervention you can find from a research article. I think this is the dumbest thing I have been asked to do since I have been in college. I graduate in May and how I cannot wait! Any help appreciated.

John

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Specializes in Paramedic 15 years, RN now.

Good god man...what a mess. I don't have much to offer, BUT, have u tried using different search engines? Google, yahoo, mozilla, all those randoms that u dont normally use? Who knows, maybe they would yield different results???

May the force be with you man....

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Specializes in Paramedic 15 years, RN now.

If it comes down to the wire...email your instructor two days before and BEG for guidance....it worked for me once...

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I think I am gonna raise ten kinds with my clinical instructor tomorrow..and attempt to get guidance from her. She is only the clinical instructor, but it is the lecture instructor making the requirements. I will harass my clinical instructor enough to get her to dig and find out what alternatives if any exist. This is totally ridiculous. I have read it over ten times and called other classmates who have had no better luck than I. I love this lecture instructor and have a great deal of respect for her, but I am blindsided by her request on this thing.

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Specializes in Nursing Professional Development.

Have you visited the school's library and/or talked with the librarians? Librarians are experts at searching the literature. They are usually your best sources for information on the various search engines, professional journals, etc. One possible reason for the assignment might be to force you to become more familiar with your library resources.

Have you reviewed the Cochrane collection of research reviews and evidence-based practice? ... the national clearninghouse of evidence-based practice guidelines? etc.

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Have you tried Google scholar? I try to find an article that looks good there, then find it on our university library site. It is useless finding it on the library site...somehow that seems backwards....good luck.

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Have you visited the school's library and/or talked with the librarians? Librarians are experts at searching the literature. They are usually your best sources for information on the various search engines, professional journals, etc. One possible reason for the assignment might be to force you to become more familiar with your library resources.

Have you reviewed the Cochrane collection of research reviews and evidence-based practice? ... the national clearninghouse of evidence-based practice guidelines? etc.

As usual, llg said what I was gonna say ... :)

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One possible reason for the assignment might be to force you to become more familiar with your library resources.

anyone remember the TV show the paper chase.....i think that was the name of it......law school, class on contracts and such......given such a huge assignment that it was impossible to complete in the time alloted, and some of the research material misteriously disappeared......until the students figured out that they needed to NEGOTIATE and CONTRACT with each other to complete the assignment......

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Specializes in Intensive medical care.

Medscape.com

Sometimes I luck up there. :redpinkhe

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I just had to research lots of articles for something I am doing in my class. I found HighBeam.com which is a research engine for all these different articles and other sources. You can save the article in a file as you search and they even cite it for you in the format you need. Although I found I needed to correct some of the APA format to meet my schools needs. I signed up for a 7 day free trial. I plan on just canceling it in a few days once I do not need access to the articles anymore. It saved me because I just was so limited on finding nursing articles on exactly what I needed and it just seemed endless there. Good Luck!

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One of the CD's that came with our books has journal articles on there, you may want to see if your book has anything like that. Sorry that's all I've got

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i'm not exactly sure what you are looking for in the way of interventions but this article looks promising.

facilitating sleep for patients with end stage renal disease

nephrology nursing journal, march-april, 2005 by kathie hopkins

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0icf/is_2_32/ai_n17209185/pg_4/?tag=content;col1

read page 4 about esrd and restless leg syndrome (rls) interventions.

to find other journal articles got to google and click on:

--google

--advanced search

--this exact wording or phrase type in: "end stage renal disease"

--search within a site or domain type in: "findarticles.com"

then click on the advanced seach bar.

you will have to click on the articles of interest and look at the date. some are older than what you want. this article .

hope this helps

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