40. Searching EBSCO Nursing
Reference Center- Planning module
Best practice guidelines. Clinically organized quick lessons. Continuing education modules.
Detailed medical illustrations. Evidencebased care sheets . Integrates into any
EHR/EMR System. The latest medical news legal cases . Nursing guides. Point-of-care drug information . Research instruments . Skills and procedures and unique point-of-care reference books .

How to access?
1. Go to http://www.usuniversity.edu
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3. Click on US University Online Full Text Databases
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4. Go down and look for EBSCO
Nursing Reference Center
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Click on the link: EBSCO NURSING
(Nursing Reference Center)
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5. For ID & Password, go to US University e-mail, or ask the Librarian for this information.
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The term can be search step by step, according to the nursing process
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Search for Breast Cancer in Older Women and select
Planning. One option is to narrow the results by choosing Outcomes
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Or just go back to the previous results and start the journey
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The journey: To learn from each file in pink and follow the blue arrows
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BREAST CANCER IN OLDER WOMEN-
Quick lessons. Select one result.
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Please, go through contents and related information, also learned from links
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Take a look of Assessment & treatment goals
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All is important, take your time to read food for thought, red flags and what do I need to tell the patient and patient’s family
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Continue with skills: in this case Breast self-examination
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Go to the link to Skill competency checklist, and contents
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Read facts & figures as well as before & during the breast examination
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Open Evidence-based care sheets and select one
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Breast cancer: Screening mammography in women over 65- what we know,
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What we can do & check the references
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Click on the links for cancer organizations
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Move to Cultural Competencies, very important to learn from the cosmopolitan city we live in
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Click on Drugs and the first ones are the most relevant- Folate
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Folate-Therapeutic dosages & uses
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What is the scientific evidence for
Folate?
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Safety issues & interactions you should know about
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Search Guidelines, includes complete summaries on diagnosis, preventions, etc.
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Continuing Education, let’s see one results
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What we know about Breast Cancer, look also
Evidence-based care sheets & legal cases
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What we can do about Breast Cancer, see also the links included in references
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Nursing Reference Center has also F.A. Davis book collection on nursing, take a look
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Nursing Reference Center has more than 468 documents on Breast Cancer in Older Women and are divided according the nursing process: assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation & evaluation
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We have covered the “planning” of the process for Breast Cancer in Older Women
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We searched them through: Quick lessons, skills, evidence-based sheets, cultural competencies, drugs, patient education, guidelines, continuing education, books, legal cases & news

We still have to learn about
“Implementation”, see the next tutorial
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