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This project is a collaborative effort of the Task Force on Mapping the Nursing Literature of the Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section of the Medical Library Association. This overview summarizes eighteen studies covering general nursing and sixteen specialties. Following a common protocol, citations from source journals were analyzed for a three-year period within the years 1996 to 2000. Analysis included cited formats, age, and ranking of the frequency of cited journal titles. Highly cited journals were analyzed for coverage in twelve health sciences and academic databases. Journals were the most frequently cited format, followed by books. More than 60% of the cited resources were published in the previous seven years. Bradford's law was validated, with a small core of cited journals accounting for a third of the citations. Medical and science databases provided the most comprehensive access for biomedical titles, while CINAHL and PubMed provided the best access for nursing journals. Beyond a heavily cited core, nursing journal citations are widely dispersed among a variety of sources and disciplines, with corresponding access via a variety of bibliographic tools. Results underscore the interdisciplinary nature of the nursing profession. For comprehensive searches, nurses need to search multiple databases. Libraries need to provide access to databases beyond PubMed, including CINAHL and academic databases. Database vendors should improve their coverage of nursing, biomedical, and psychosocial titles identified in these studies. Additional research is needed to update these studies and analyze nursing specialties not covered.

As part of a project to map the literature of nursing, sponsored by the Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section of the Medical Library Association, this study identifies core journals cited by general or \"popular\" US nursing journals and the indexing services that cover the cited journals. Three journals were selected for analysis: American Journal of Nursing, Nursing 96-98, and RN. The source journals were subjected to a citation analysis of articles from 1996 to 1998, followed by an analysis of database access to the most frequently cited journal titles. Cited formats included journals (63.7%), books (26.6%), government documents (3.0%), Internet (0.5%), and miscellaneous (6.2%). Cited references were relatively current; most (86.6%) were published in the current decade. One-third of the citations were found in a core of 24 journal titles; one-third were dispersed among a middle zone of 94 titles; and the remaining third were scattered in a larger zone of 694 titles. Indexing coverage for the core titles was most comprehensive in PubMed/MEDLINE, followed by CINAHL and Science Citation Index. Results support the popular (not scholarly) nature of these titles. While not a good source for original research, they fulfill a key role of disseminating nursing knowledge with their relevantly current citations to a broad variety of sources.

CE, patient education, and news, www.medscape.com/nurses/resource/ NIH Clinical Alerts and Advisories RSS feeds for clinical alerts and advisories from NIH-funded clinical trials. www.nlm.nih.gOv/databases/alerts/clinical_alerts.html#alerts/ US National Library of Medicine NLM RSS Feeds for News, Podcasts, and Webcasts, www.nlm.nih.gov/listserv/rss_podcasts.html FORUMS AND ELECTRONIC DISCUSSION LISTS CCN-L Deals with critical care nursing issues. http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/ccn-l/ GLOBALRN Worldwide Internet email discussion list on culture and health care issues, www.nurseweb.ucsf.edu/www/globalrn.htm NPInfo List for nurse practitioners, http://lists.nurse.net/mailman/listinfo/npinfo/ NURSENET: Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine News, resource links, events, special features, streaming video, funding sources. www.bioethics.upenn.edu International Council of Nurses (ICN) Code of Ethics for Nurses Adopted in 1953 and revised and reaffirmed at various times since; also in French, Spanish, German, www.icn.ch/icncode.\\n www.hrsa.gov GENERAL HEALTH COMPILATIONS Commonwealth Fund Surveys track trends in health coverage, access, and quality and general policy/practice issues in the US and internationally. www.commonwealthfund.org/Surveys/ Health, United States NCHS annual report on trends in health statistics. www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus.hlm Healthy People 2010 National health objectives, www.healthypeople.gov Kaiser Family Foundation Focuses on major health care issues in the US. www.kff.org INTERNATIONAL Kaiser Family Foundation Global health facts, www.globalhealthfacts.org/ Pan American Health Organization Basic country health profiles for the Americas. Provides information by countries in the Americas including demo-graphic, socioeconomic, health risk indicators, data relating to health care delivery, and statement of trends, www.paho.org/english/sha/profiles.htm United Nations Statistics Division Demographic and social statistics and indicators. www.un.org/Depts/unsd/ US Census Bureau International Data Base/IDB Includes statistical tables with demographic, vital statistics, and socioeconomic data for 227 countries and areas of he world, www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/ WHOSIS/WHO Statistical Information System Statistics for >100 core indicators on mortality, morbidity, risk factors, service coverage, and health systems of WHO member nations, www.who.int/whosis/ World Health Organization (WHO) Data and statistics, www.who.int/research/en/ TOOLS FOR FINDING STATISTICS CDC Wonder Provides access to public health reports and data systems categorized by topic, http://wonder.cdc.gov DataFERRET Federal Electronic Research and Review Extraction Tool Provides access to large NCHS datasets. www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh/ferret/ferret.htm Epi Info Public domain software packages to produce epidemiological statistics, tables, graphs and maps, www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/ FedStats Gateway to statistics from over 100 US federal agencies, www.fedstats.gov $$ Lexis Nexis Statistical Database containing detailed abstracts, indexing, and locator information for all statistical reports of general research value issued by the federal government since the early 1960s.

Objectives: As part of a project to map the literature of nursing, sponsored by the Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section of the Medical Library Association, this study identifies core periodicals cited by general or \"popular\" US nursing periodicals and the indexing services that cover the cited periodicals. Methods: Three periodicals were selected for analysis: American Journal of Nursing, Nursing 96-98, and RN. The source periodicals were subjected to a citation analysis of articles from 1996 to 1998, followed by an analysis of database access to the most frequently cited periodical titles. Results: Cited formats included periodicals (63.7 per cent), books (26.6 per cent), government documents (3.0 per cent), Internet (0.5 per cent), and miscellaneous (6.2 per cent). Cited references were relatively current; most (86.6 per cent) were published in the current decade. One-third of the citations were found in a core of 24 periodical titles; one-third were dispersed among a middle zone of 94 titles; and the remaining third were scattered in a larger zone of 694 titles. Indexing coverage for the core titles was most comprehensive in PubMed/MEDLINE, followed by CINAHL and Science Citation Index. Conclusions: Results support the popular (not scholarly) nature of these titles. While not a good source for original research, they fulfil a key role of disseminating nursing knowledge with their relevantly current citations to a broad variety of sources. (Author abstract)

Introduction: This project is a collaborative effort of the Task Force on Mapping the Nursing Literature of the Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section of the Medical Library Association. This overview summarizes eighteen studies covering general nursing and sixteen specialties. Method: Following a common protocol, citations from source periodicals were analyzed for a three-year period within the years 1996 to 2000. Analysis included cited formats, age, and ranking of the frequency of cited periodical titles. Highly cited periodicals were analyzed for coverage in twelve health sciences and academic databases. Results: Periodicals were the most frequently cited format, followed by books. More than 60 per cent of the cited resources were published in the previous seven years. Bradford's law was validated, with a small core of cited periodicals accounting for a third of the citations. Medical and science databases provided the most comprehensive access for biomedical titles, while CINAHL and PubMed provided the best access for nursing periodicals. Discussion: Beyond a heavily cited core, nursing periodical citations are widely dispersed among a variety of sources and disciplines, with corresponding access via a variety of bibliographic tools. Results underscore the interdisciplinary nature of the nursing profession. Conclusion: For comprehensive searches, nurses need to search multiple databases. Libraries need to provide access to databases beyond PubMed, including CINAHL and academic databases. Database vendors should improve their coverage of nursing, biomedical, and psychosocial titles identified in these studies. Additional research is needed to update these studies and analyze nursing specialties not covered. (Author abstract)

Members see meditation and spiritual enlightenment as a way to promote the peace and harmony that this world so sorely needs. Accordingly, through channeled and guided meditations and lessons on personal development, the MPH Group has focused its attention on healing and spiritual development. Today, say members, [Menorah Charney]'s efforts have raised the Group's consciousness to a degree whereby it is able to promote a positive affirmation of the power of humanity to raise itself above the surrounding negativity, and indeed to thwart that negativity. This, they claim, is humanity's responsibility to the happy survival of planet Earth. \"Learning to listen in to ourselves, we come to realize our own goodness and recognizing this, we step up further and recognize this great potential in every human being. Our loving light lies dormant in our hearts. If this was fanned to a flame, and joined to our mind's thoughts, humanity could, as one great unit of energy, promote goodwill and peace throughout the earth. Mother Earth is understood as a living entity. Through the ages she has suffered tremendously from humanity's inhumanity and negative thought forms. But she is re-birthing now, and it is the responsibility of us all to help by raising our own awareness, and lifting our own consciousness.

Dr. Tom Gumpel's statement that \"ADHD has become a terrible fad\" is, I feel, a little heartless, but the remark by Rivka Arotchas, a mother of two ADHD kids, that \"these aren't kids who can't tell the difference between good and bad ... They know the rules but don't know how to control themselves\" rings true. One lecturer, Dr. Tomlinson, gave an in-depth study of the value of mineral supplementation for this condition. The problem, it seems, is not an emotional one. Its roots lie in a biological deficiency. These children, according to Dr. Tomlinson, lack certain essential fatty acids and minerals, the gamma-linoleic acids, Omega 3 and 6 (found in evening primrose oil - Ephamol G and fish oils), vitamin B6, calcium, magnesium and zinc.

“side by side”, a mainstreaming program developed and implemented by the Children's Museum of New Haven, Inc., demonstrated the feasibility of integrating handicapped and nonhandicapped children in two educational settings. Mainstreaming on a two way street: a guidebook for getting there, an outgrowth of the program, can be adapted for replication by (1) teachers and administrators in public schools, (2) curators and artists in museums and arts organizations, and (3) personnel in social service agencies, i.e., Girl/Boy Scouts, Big Brother /Big Sister, YW/YMCA, and community centers, that may be committed to integrated programs for the handicapped but may not have the requisite skills, methodological or curricular, to implement such a program. The project had four major objectives: (1) to sensitize normal children to handicapping conditions, (2) to disseminate a methodology which was multisensory in nature and encouraged diversity in problem-solving strategies and decision-making skills, (3) to teach teachers how to use the Museum's multisensory approach in their own classrooms and how to infuse the arts into the curriculum, and (4) to help parents discover their own creative potential so that they could become more effective facilitators in their children's education. The project utilized two settings: that of the Children's Museum, a unique participatory place for learning and growing, and a public school in a multiethnic, multiracial community adjacent to New Haven, Ct. Each setting had a different focus. The Museum setting served as a site where visually impaired, hearing impaired, physically handicapped, developmentally retarded, and socially or emotionally maladjusted children could be mainstreamed into ongoing programs, while the school setting served as a site to see if there would or could be any carry-over into a public school using the Museum's approach to mainstreaming. The target population of the school component was a diagnostic developmental kindergarten class and their nonhandicapped peers in an open space first grade class. Essentially, both groups participated in outreach programs in the school which focused on developing cognitive and social skills through the arts as a prerequisite to integration, as well as activities which brought the children together for participatory programs. Both groups visited the Museum and participated in integrated experiences there. It was concluded that (1) if children in the regular class were involved in simulation activities (exposure to aids, movies, and classroom discussion), they might show more positive attitudes toward their handicapped peers than children who were not sensitized; (2) if regular classroom teachers could acquire skills in both individualizing the curriculum and using the arts to teach basic-skills, they would increase their abilities to facilitate mainstreaming and thus improve their attitudes toward the process (which tend to relate to this lack of knowledge); and (3) if parental attitudes could be changed toward handicapping condition and if parents were better able to communicate with their children regarding this new awareness, the amount of integration both in the schools and in the community in general would increase.