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The premier database for support of practice, education, research,
and development for nurses, midwives, health visitors and healthcare
assistants working in the UK or following UK practice, as well as
student professionals, and related community staff.
British Nursing Index is a tightly-focused, bibliographic database
comprising over 250 of the most popular and relevant journal sources
in nursing and midwifery. This includes comprehensive coverage of
all nursing, midwifery and related titles published in the UK, plus
a selection of important international nursing titles. References
are also included for articles relevant to nurses and midwives from
selected medical, allied health, community and health management
journals. In all its coverage, BNI aims to be as current as
possible, but it ensures that its coverage of its core UK nursing
and midwifery titles provides the most up-to-date indexing source.
The following are examples of subject areas covered by BNI:
- A&E nursing - NHS
- breast-care nursing - practice development
- community matrons - postnatal depression
- district nursing - psychiatric nursing
- falls in the elderly - resuscitation
- hand hygiene - student nurses
- learning disabilities - theatre nursing
- midwifery role - wound care
Use BNID to answer questions like:
- what is the impact on quality of life of chronic pressure sores?
- what are the current approaches to pain management in palliative
care?
- what is the legal framework supporting compulsory care in mental
health?
- what models of care are in use in midwifery-led maternity units?
From 2004, all documents contain concise informative abstracts,
uniquely written with needs of BNI users in mind, not merely
reproducing journal abstracts. Prior to 2004, documents contain
annotated titles.
BNI is aimed primarily at those with an interest in UK nursing and
midwifery practitioners and students, and descriptors used to index
articles reflect British terminology. BNI indexers have all been
involved as information professionals in the healthcare sector and
can use their subject knowledge to help BNI to aid users in
retrieval of relevant literature.
BNI includes an interactive thesaurus which enables users to search
the hierarchy of indexing terms in advance of their search, and
select the most appropriate terms. This is a unique thesaurus,
reflecting British practice and organisation of nursing, midwifery
and health visiting. Refer to the appendices of this guide for more
information on using DataStar's interactive thesaurus functionality.
BNI is compiled by a cross-sectoral partnership of libraries serving
nursing and midwifery practitioners, educators, managers and
students - Bournemouth University, Poole Hospital, Salisbury
Hospital, and the Royal College of Nursing.
1 BNID
AN - Accession number & update
00126413 20070109.
TI - Title
The introduction of innovative nursing and midwifery roles: the
perspective of healthcare managers.
SO - Source
Journal of Advanced Nursing, Dec 2006, vol. 56, no. 5, p.
553-62, ISSN: 0309-2402.
AU - Author(s)
McKenna-H, Richey-R, Keeney-S.
AB - Abstract
Research in Northern Ireland into the views of Directors of
Nursing and other chief nurses on the introduction of innovative
roles in nursing and midwifery, defined as those that function
outside traditional hospital and community clinical structures.
Participants were surveyed about their attitudes to such posts,
support and infrastructure required, clinical supervision
aspects, and impact on practice development. 47 refs.
DE - Descriptors
NURSING-ROLE; MIDWIFERY-ROLE; PRACTICE-DEVELOPMENT;
NURSING-MANAGEMENT.
YR - Publication year
2006.
DT - Publication date
20061200.
IX - British Nursing Index Ed.
BNI, Vol 10, No 11, November 2006.
AN - Accession number & update
00126200 20070109.
TI - Title
The health visitor's role and postnatal depression: an overview.
SO - Source
British Journal of Midwifery, Nov 2006, vol. 14, no. 11,
p. 658-60, ISSN: 0969-4900.
AU - Author(s)
Rothman-R.
AB - Abstract
The role of health visitors in postnatal mental health care, and
strategies for further development of this role. The benefits of
a proactive health visiting service for families and the
importance of collaborative working and integrated care pathways
are highlighted. 40 refs.
DE - Descriptors
POSTNATAL-DEPRESSION; HEALTH-VISITING; MULTIDISCIPLINARY-TEAMS;
CARE-PLANS-AND-PLANNING.
YR - Publication year
2006.
DT - Publication date
20061100.
IX - British Nursing Index Ed.
Label/description Example
AN Accession number 1_: 00069551.AN.
or 2_: 69551.AN.
& update - see Limit options -
TI Title 3_: EPOETIN ADJ ALFA.TI.
SO Source* 4_: CANCER ADJ CARE.SO.
5_: EUROPEAN-JOURNAL-OF-
CANCER$.SO.
..ROOT SO= for a list of source publications
VOLUME= Volume number 6_: VOLUME=27
ISSUE= Issue number 7_: ISSUE=4
PAGE= Start page reference 8_: PAGE=320
ISSN= ISSN 9_: ISSN=0162-220X
AU Author(s) 10_: BARRETT-LEE$.AU.
AB Abstract 11_: BODY ADJ IMAGE.AB.
(only available in documents added from March 2004.)
DE Descriptors* 12_: BLOOD-AND-BLOOD-
DISORDERS.DE.
or 13_: QUALITY WITH LIFE.DE.
YR Publication year
YEAR= Publication year 14_: YEAR=2001
- see also Limit options -
DT Publication date
DATE= Publication date 15_: DATE=20060726
MONTH= Publication month 16_: MONTH=200607
- see also Limit options -
IX British Nursing Index edition 17_: VOL ADJ '5'.IX.
(*) The ROOT command is especially useful in these fields to
establish, for example, how a company name or SIC code
appears in the database.
1_: QUALITY WITH LIFE
YEAR Publication year 2_: ..L 1 YEAR LT 2002
MONTH Publication month 3_: ..L 1 MONTH>200512
DATE Publication date 4_: ..L DATE=20060726
UDATE Update date 5_: ..L 1 UDATE GT
20030726
UMONTH Update month 6_: ..L 1 UMONTH WL
200303,200305.
By paragraph _: ..P TI SO 1,5-7,10
SHORT AN TI SO AU YR
MEDIUM AN TI SO AU AB YR
LONG AN TI SO AU AB DE YR
ALL AN TI SO AU AB DE YR DT IX
FREE AN TI DE YR DT IX
_: ..P 1 MED 1-10.
TI - Title and AB - Abstract:
From 2004 all documents contain unique, concise informative
abstracts. Earlier content contains annotated titles, giving detail
about scope and coverage of the articles.
DE - DESCRIPTORS:
British Nursing Index Thesaurus Terms:
The DE paragraph contains descriptors from the BNID thesaurus, which
consists of just over 700 controlled terms. The thesaurus was
created, and is maintained, to uniquely reflect British terminology
in healthcare. These terms also are available in their own DataStar
database - BVOC.
Use the thesaurus terms to produce the most accurate search
results.
The terms are 'double-posted'. For example, CANCER.DE. will
retrieve not only articles indexed to PROTEINS, but also those
on CANCER-CHEMOTHERAPY, CANCER-SURGERY, LUNG-CANCER, etc.
If you wish to restrict your search to the single term CANCER,
use the .W. qualifier:
1_: CANCER.W..DE.
For in-depth information on thesaurus functionality in BNID, refer
to the appendices at the end of the online guide - see below.
..RANK and ..MAP:
Are available in the SO, AU, DE and YR paragraphs.
Guides:
The complete guide to the British Nursing Index database is
available in the BASE database - search as BASE-BNID.
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