Critical Portfolio is an electronic web-based portfolio service for students, faculty, and practicing nurses. Designed to track professional development activities, it is an excellent method for maintaining a record of continuing education, employment history, licensure, etc.

It can include supporting documents such as copies of educational transcripts, letters of recommendation, and certificates.

The annual subscription fee is $59.95. Visit here to know more.

Yes, there is a way to limit your search results to U.S. nursing journals or North American nursing journals in PubMed.   Limit by using the place of publication tag [pl] and the nursing journal subset, which is jsubsetn.

First, use PubMed through our Health Sciences Library link which will link search results to our holdings.

Now, to limit your results in PubMed by place of publication and nursing journal subset:

[Note: You can search for your topic before or after doing the following and then using the AND to combine your topic search set, or add it all in one search string.  For greater flexibility in playing with your search terms, I recommend doing them in separate steps and combining.]

1-To Limit to US Nursing Journals, put the following in the search box: united states[pl] AND jsubsetn

2-To Limit to North American Nursing Journals, put the following in the search box: (united states[pl] OR canada[pl] OR mexico[pl]) AND jsubsetn

Interested in more information on PubMed’s journal/citation subsets? Check here.  Find a list of PubMed’s subset codes here.

Nursing students, you may be interested in reading 101 Blog Posts Every New Nurse Should Read – lots of food for thought in there!

Click on a workshop title and follow the instructions to register. You will need your UBIT username and password. All instruction workshops will take place in the Media Instruction Room (basement level of the Health Sciences Library) unless otherwise indicated.

Important Notice:

It is the policy of the Health Sciences Library instructors that workshops with fewer than three total registrants will be cancelled. Registrants will be notified as quickly as possible of any cancellations and will be given the opportunity to either register for another section or schedule an appointment with the instructor for a consultation. Signs will be posted in the library to inform possible “walk-ins” of any cancellations.

“Improving access and retrieval of your research study is the surest way to enhance its impact.” This site has excellent practical tips and is worth your time.