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Health Sciences Virtual Library: GNRS 504 Bioethics and Healthcare Policy

For Nursing, Public Health, Kinesiology, & Physical Therapy

Your Librarian is Denise Gehring

This page is to help you in locating materials for the course Bioethics and Healthcare Policy:

Description of the Course: This course will outline the role of the healthcare leader in ensuring human rights are upheld in healthcare systems. This course focuses on bioethical analysis, decision-making and moral policy analysis, and formulation. Through course discussion, group and individual assignments, and oral and written presentations, students will analyze and apply bioethical principles to decision and policy-making processes in the workplace and at national levels. Healthcare ethics and policy will be considered from a Christian worldview.

Code of Ethics

Journal Articles Relevant to GNRS504

Boolean Operators & Other Searching Techniques

How Boolean Operators Work

Placing the words “AND” and “OR” (also called Boolean operators) between your search concepts and synonyms can help you create a search statement that retrieves the most relevant sources.

As the diagrams illustrate, using the word “AND” reduces the number of results you get, by requiring that both terms appear in each result. Placing “OR” between search terms expands the number of results because it retrieves sources that use any of the words. Generally speaking, you should use “AND” between each of your concept terms, since you want to find books and articles that address all the aspects of your topic. You should use “OR” between synonyms, to make sure that you find closely related sources.

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Searching Techniques

Truncation Phrase Searching Wildcards Nesting
Broaden your search to include variant word endings and spellings. Enter the root of the word then the truncation symbol, usually the asterisk *. Use quotation marks " " around search words to search for a phrase - only use this around two or more words. Using the phrase search will help you narrow your results. Substitute a symbol for just one character. The most commonly used wildcard symbol is a question mark ? Use parentheses () to put search words into sets. Terms in the parentheses are processed first. Use nesting with AND, OR, & NOT.

Examples:

nurs* = nurse, nurses, nursing

religio* = religion, religions, religious, religiosity

Examples:

"end of life"

"spiritual care"

Examples:

wom?n = women, woman

m?n = men, man

Examples:

(screening or detect*) and lupus

(cancer* or neoplasm*) and "spiritual* care"

GNRS504: Bioethics and Healthcare Policy