NURS-6002 Week 3 Discussion

Using the Walden Library

Where can you find evidence to inform your thoughts and scholarly writing? Throughout your degree program, you will use research literature to explore ideas, guide your thinking, and gain new insights. As you search the research literature, it is important to use resources that are peer-reviewed and from scholarly journals. You may already have some favorite online resources and databases that you use or have found useful in the past. For this Discussion, you explore databases available through the Walden Library.

Note: Unless otherwise noted, initial postings to Discussions are due on or before Day 3, and response postings are due on or before Day 6. You are required to participate in the Discussion on at least three different days (a different day for main post and each response). It is important to adhere to the weekly time frame to allow others ample time to respond to your posting. In addition, you are expected to respond to questions directed toward your own initial posting in a timely manner.

Resources

Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.
Click the weekly resources link to access the resources.

WEEKLY RESOURCES

To Prepare:

  • Review the information presented in the Learning Resources for using the Walden Library, searching the databases, and evaluating online resources.
  • Begin searching for a peer-reviewed article that pertains to your practice area and interests you.

By Day 3

Post the following:

Using proper APA formatting, cite the peer-reviewed article you selected that pertains to your practice area and is of particular interest to you and identify the database that you used to search for the article. Explain any difficulties you experienced while searching for this article. Would this database be useful to your colleagues? Explain why or why not. Would you recommend this database? Explain why or why not.

By Day 6

Respond to at least two of your colleagues’ posts by offering suggestions/strategies for working with this database from your own experience, or offering ideas for using alternative resources.

 

Solution

I chose the following topic because I plan on finishing my FNP first and then Mental Health practitioner. I chose to do my discussion on EMDR for treatment of PTSD. Eye Movement Desensitization reprocessing has been proven to help people with trauma over come it. The key EMDR is dissociation. EMDR is like building a wall between the someones mind and the feelings and emotions that can hurt you. Its a lot like unpacking a suitcase and putting your clothes in one place and the suitcase in another. This treatment not a typical treatment one would expect. It actually seems kind of silly when you first begin the treatment but it has been proven to be an effective treatment.

 

I used the the Walden Library database to access several peer reviewed articles and case studies.  After accessing the Walden Library I entered PTSD in the search block and it brought up the National Center for PTSD, it was actually quite a simple process.

 

I didn’t have any problems accessing the materials I needed and there were plenty of articles to choose from. I would definitely recommend this database.  

 

National Center for PTSD. (n.d.). VA.gov | Veterans Affairs. https://www.ptsd.va.gov/index.asp

Walden University Library. (n.d.). Retrieved October 4, 2019 from https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/az.php?s=19981

Search the Article Database (PTSDpubs) – PTSD: National Center for PTSD. (n.d.). Www.ptsd.va.gov. https://www.ptsd.va.gov/ptsdpubs/search_ptsdpubs.asp

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