Teaching and assessing the database searching skills of student nurses.

Critical appraisal and application of the evidence to practice cannot proceed without first finding the evidence. To teach evidence-based practice database searching skills to students, a nurse educator partnered with a librarian to design, conduct, and assess instruction. The authors describe the creation, administration, and findings from the assessments and the implications for instruction.

Finding information on immigrant and refugee health.

Health care providers working with immigrant and refugee populations need to find and access information related to patient care and to direct patients to culturally and linguistically appropriate health information. This article shows how to find this type of information using online databases, library catalogs, and the internet. Special emphasis is placed on conducting subject searches in online databases such as PubMed and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature.

Native American health: traditional healing and culturally competent health care internet resources.

Health disparities between Native Americans and the general population of the United States are a major health concern. Traditional healing and culturally competent health care offer much promise in raising the health status of Native Americans. Traditional healing, although uniquely practiced by each indigenous culture, is generally a system of medicine based on the inseparability of mind, body, and spirit.

Dermal absorption of neat and aqueous volatile organic chemicals in the Fischer 344 rat.

Quantification of dermal absorption of volatile organic chemicals (VOCs) from aqueous solutions is required to understand the potential health hazards resulting from skin exposure to these chemicals in contaminated water. Male Fischer 344 rats were dermally exposed (3.1-cm2 dorsal skin) to neat, one-third saturated, two-thirds saturated, or saturated aqueous solutions of 14 VOCs for 24 hr.