For those of you participating in the 23 Things MSK Challenge, we hope you were able to successfully complete the tasks for this month. If you had any trouble, the solutions are posted below.

Thing 9

Here are the instructions for the Trip database task:

1. Go to the Trip database and click on the PICO search box.
2. Enter the following PICO search:
P – hospital acquired infection
I  – hand washing
C – leave field blank
O – reduced infection
3. You should retrieve 5 targeted results.

Thing 10

Here are the instructions for the Google Scholar task:

1. Go to Google Scholar and enter the search: compassion fatigue and oncology nurses
2. If you see “Interventions to manage compassion fatigue in oncology nursing” by N Aycock, click on the Fulltext@MSK link to the right.
3. Then, click on the link Save to save the citation to your library (underneath the quotation from the article).
4. You can then access the link My library at the left of the page.
5. Finally, click on the link Cite underneath the citation you wish to share with a librarian.
6. Cut and paste the citation in APA format into an email to your librarian. It should look something like this: Aycock, N., & Boyle, D. (2009). Interventions to manage compassion fatigue in oncology nursing. Clinical journal of oncology nursing, 13(2), 183-191.

For any questions you might have, don’t hesitate to email Reference at asklibrarian@mskcc.org, or call us at 212-639-7439.