Description
As with other healthcare professions, nursing is devoted to sharing today’s knowledge by publishing research in academic journals. Nurses may generate scholarly work for various purposes, including publishing, educational projects, and dissertations; this ultimately implies that nurses’ writing abilities must be scholastic, ending with the nursing profession that rests on solid writing abilities (Johnson & Rulo, 2019), which is needed to secure the future of nursing when nurses across different generations desire to develop academic writing skills for publication (Cartlidge, 2020). Walden University has included numerous reliable resources and vast databases designed to help nurses become graduate-level writers on purpose. Evidence shows that when an educational program empowers writing abilities, a student’s confidence in writing increases (Woodward & Hirsch, 2023). The database is a valuable, informative, and organized source of collected structured articles, literature reviews, eBooks, and other scholarly papers that the researcher approaches electronically. However, searching databases is challenging and time-consuming (Bramer et al., 2017). Searching for complex or diffuse topics in vast biomedical databases is laborious, so search filters were developed to achieve a reliable solution (Damarell et al., 2019). The search filters provide a transparent methodology to overcome complex topic challenges encountered during information retrieval (Damarell et al., 2020).
The recommendation is to access and utilize multiple databases when seeking related references (Bramer et al., 2017). Based on that, EBSCO and PubMed are the preferred databases chosen carefully to support my academic works. EBSCO, with its several database portals like Medline, Education Source, APA PsycInfo, and CINAHL, has many advantages, for instance, providing multiple precise search filters result in fast and straightforward utilization, offering peer-reviewed content, having many free texts, and mobile-friendly access. On the other hand, PubMed is also a vast database that many authors prefer. Some advantages are the availability of helpful search updated filters that serve the literature review more, provide available peer-reviewed scientific research, support free resources, and provide a friendly version (Olivan et al., 2021; White, 2020).
Peer-Reviewed Article
When discussing databases, the peer review concept takes place and is considered a significant factor in scholarly endeavors; it advances the writing skills of emerging nurse scholars by utilizing constructive feedback (Trotter, 2021). On a personal level, I worked on a study regarding maternal awareness of sudden infant death syndrome. Preparing for this article started by accessing several electronic databases, CINAHL, MEDLINE, PubMed, Springer, and Science Direct, in a literature search for a literature review paper. This study was published, and you can access it in EBSCO (Alkhataybeh & Al-Faouri, 2014).
As a NICU nurse, I can sense the suffering of premature or critical newborn parents in terms of psychological distress; they are always in place between two outcomes: the hope that they can carry home their wellness baby and the fear of baby loss. The parents or caregivers in this waiting time window usually also show and experience psychological distress, parenting role loss, and parent-infant bonding disruptions, ending with grief. The psychosocial team is one of the multidisciplinary teams working together to minimize this suffering (Lean et al., 2018). In the future, I plan to resume my scholarly work in the field that involves psychological care for parents or caregivers of critical neonatal patients.
References
Alkhataybeh, W., & Al-Faouri, I. (2014, October). Maternal awareness of sudden infant death syndrome in the North of Jordan. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 99(10). https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2014-307384.1506Links to an external site.
Bramer, W. M., Rethlefsen, M. L., Kleijnen, J., & Franco, O. H. (2017, December 6). Optimal database combinations for literature searches in systematic reviews: a prospective exploratory study. Systematic reviews, 6(1), 245. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-017-0644-yLinks to an external site.
Cartlidge, E. F. (2020, August). An Evidence-Based Approach to Increasing Nurses’ Publication Rates. The American journal of nursing, 120(8), 50-55. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.NAJ.0000694584.11318.81Links to an external site.
Damarell, R. A., Lewis, S., Trenerry, C., & Tieman, J. J. (2020, January 21). Integrated Care Search: developing and validating a PubMed search filter for retrieving the integrated care research evidence. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 20(1), 12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-020-0901-yLinks to an external site.
Damarell, R. A., May, N., Hammond, S., Sladek, R. M., & Tieman, J. J. (2019, March). Topic search filters: a systematic scoping review. Health information and libraries journal, 36(1), 4-40. https://doi.org/10.1111/hir.12244Links to an external site.
Johnson, J. E., & Rulo, K. (2019, February). Problem in the profession: How and why writing skills in nursing must be improved. Journal of Professional Nursing, 35(1), 57-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.profnurs.2018.05.005Links to an external site.
Lean, R. E., Rogers, C. E., Paul, R. A., & Gerstein, E. D. (2018, January 24). NICU Hospitalization: Long-Term Implications on Parenting and Child Behaviors. Current treatment options in pediatrics, 4(1), 49-69. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5986282/Links to an external site.
Olivan, J. S., Cuenca, G. M., & Avilés, R. A. (2021, October 1). Development of an efficient search filter to retrieve systematic reviews from PubMed. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 109(4), 561-574. https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2021.1223Links to an external site.
Trotter, T. L. (2021, April). Using the peer review process to educate and empower emerging nurse scholars. Journal of professional nursing: official journal of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 37(2), 488-492. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.profnurs.2020.10.009Links to an external site.
White, J. (2020, December). PubMed 2.0. PubMed. Retrieved December 17, 2023, from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33085945/Links to an external site.
Woodward, K. F., & Hirsch, A. (2023, January 30). Discipline-Specific Writing Support in Graduate Nursing. Journal of Nursing Education, 62(4), 253-256. https://doi.org/10.3928/01484834-Links to an external site.20230104-01Links to an external site.
