Nurse raters needed for online service.Greetings from the Health Information Research Unit at Canada's McMaster University McMaster University, at Hamilton, Ont., Canada; nondenominational; founded 1887. It has faculties of humanities, science, social sciences, business, engineering, and health sciences, as well as a school of graduate studies and a divinity college. , the editorial office for Evidence-Based Nursing and other evidence-based resources. bmjupdates+ is a free service that provides a searchable database Refers to databases on the Web that are searchable by typing in a query. The term is quite redundant because all databases are searchable. In fact, that is one of their major features. of the best evidence, prerated for methodological quality by research staff who review every issue of over 100 clinical journals, and then rated for clinical relevance and interest by at least three members of a wordwide panel. The service also includes an e-mail alerting system in which users are invited to register their interests so they can receive e-mail alerts matched to their personal clinical interests. You can check out bmjupdates+ at www.bmjupdates.com. We are looking to expand bmjupdates+ to include relevance and interest ratings by practising nurses, nursing tutors, and nurse managers. As a first step, we would like to invite interested nurses to join us as sentinel readers to rate the clinical relevance of these high quality, hot-off-the-press studies in your own clinical specialty. We will supply online articles according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. your clinical interests, and you rate the articles on two simple scales. This takes about two to 10 minutes (depending on how interesting you find the article). We can send you articles as often or as seldom as you like. We'll collate col·late tr.v. col·lat·ed, col·lat·ing, col·lates 1. To examine and compare carefully in order to note points of disagreement. 2. To assemble in proper numerical or logical sequence. 3. your ratings with those of at least two other nurses and use these ratings to: * build a preliminary evidence-based database specifically for nurses; * choose the most relevant articles for Evidence-Based Nursing and other evidence-based information services See Information Systems. ; * show you how other nurses in your specialty rated the same articles; * show you the highest rated articles in your clinical area; and * send you a yearly summary of your ratings to include in your professional practice portfolio. If you would like to join us as a nursing rater rat·er n. 1. One that rates, especially one that establishes a rating. 2. One having an indicated rank or rating. Often used in combination: a third-rater; a first-rater. , please contact us at MOREebn@mcmaster.ca and we will send a personal invitation and a registration link to the MORE EBN EbN abbr. east by north Noun 1. EbN - the compass point that is one point north of due east east by north system. We hope you will take this opportunity to help define the most useful research for clinical nursing care, and we think you will enjoy the rating process. Andrew Jull and Donna Ciliska, co-editors, Evidence-Based Nursing, and Brian Haynes, Health Information Research Unit, McMaster University, Canada |
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