Welcome to the Erickson Library's Respiratory Therapy subject guide. You'll find tabs at the top that will lead you to additional information with print and online resources.
The Erickson Library is here to help you find credible and reliable information. Please feel free to call or email with any of your research questions!
The Erickson Library is here to help you find credible and reliable information. Please feel free to call or email with any of your research questions!
Finding background information on your subject is helpful before you dive into subject specific databases. Credo Reference (link below) is a great place to start to gather ideas for keywords.
A few keywords to try: pulmonology, nebulizer, inhaler, respiration, respiratory physiology, mechanical ventilation
Visit the Articles tab to get more tips on using keywords in databases.
A few keywords to try: pulmonology, nebulizer, inhaler, respiration, respiratory physiology, mechanical ventilation
Visit the Articles tab to get more tips on using keywords in databases.
- Credo Reference
Search over 3 million full text entries in 1,200 electronic reference books! Watch How to Run a Basic Search on Credo.
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Compact clinical guide to mechanical ventilation: foundations of practice for critical care nurses (Available Online)
Handbook of respiratory care (Instructional Media RC735 .I5 L68 2011)
Respiratory care anatomy and physiology: foundations for clinical practice (Main QP121 .B355 2018)
Respiratory notes: respiratory therapist's pocket guide (Instructional Media RC735 .I5 W45 2013)- Alt HealthWatch
This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It has full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. - CINAHL Complete
CINAHL Complete is the world's most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for nearly 1,400 journals indexed in CINAHL. With full-text coverage dating back to 1937, it is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature. - Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the AHFS Consumer Medication Information which includes drug information in lay language for consumers. - PubMed
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's free search service which indexes over 5,000 medical, dental, nursing and allied health journals.
1. Useful keywords: llaboratory, pathology, science occupations, health technology
2. Break down your topic into smaller concepts and identify synonyms.
3. Use and to combine keywords (results will include both) i.e. "ventilator and pneumonia"
4. Use or to expand your results (results will include one or the other) i.e. "respiratory or pulmonology"
5. Use "quotation marks" to search keywords as a phrase, i.e. "respiratory therapy"
6. Use an asterik* to search multiple endings, i.e. ther* will search therapy and therapies.
2. Break down your topic into smaller concepts and identify synonyms.
3. Use and to combine keywords (results will include both) i.e. "ventilator and pneumonia"
4. Use or to expand your results (results will include one or the other) i.e. "respiratory or pulmonology"
5. Use "quotation marks" to search keywords as a phrase, i.e. "respiratory therapy"
6. Use an asterik* to search multiple endings, i.e. ther* will search therapy and therapies.
Minnesota Society for Respiratory Care
CareerOneStop
Career Wise
O*NET
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials that are either a) in the public domain or b) licensed in a manner that provides everyone with free and perpetual permission to engage in the 5R activities (retain, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute). creativecommons.org