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Trends In Nursing

Your assignment:

For Trends in Nursing, you will complete a literature review of a minimum of 5 scholarly nursing articles related to your assigned topic.

There are 2 options:

An issue facing the nursing profession OR
A NJ community health concern which includes volunteer time with an approved community partner.

This guide will assist you in identifying and locating scholarly research for your literature review. Requirements for articles:

You must use at least 5 scholarly, peer-reviewed articles
Published in the last 5 years
Articles must be from the United States

The literature review will inform the research behind the Trends in Nursing Capstone project. Writing the essay is outside of the scope of this course guide, but please see the APA details and feel free to reach out and make an appointment with me to talk through your work!

Finding Scholarly Articles

Search strategies:

Limit by date! Only search for content published within the past 5 years.
Think of your keywords. Your topic may be known by several names (hypertension, high blood pressure, etc.)
Use quotes. This tells the database to search a term as a phrase. "health acquired infections" "electronic medical records" "United States"
Use the truncator or asterisk * This simple command tells the database to give you anything that has the prefix you type followed by anything else. For example:

nurs* = nurse, nurses, nursing

child* = child, children, childhood

adolesc* = adolescent, adolescents, adolescence

Search Examples-

safety AND "infection control" AND nurs* AND "united states"

teamwork AND medication administration AND nurses AND ("new jersey" OR NJ)

"patient centered care" AND nurs* AND "hand hygiene"

Databases where you can find scholarly nursing and allied health literature:

CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
An EBSCO database that provides access to many of the top nursing and allied health literature available.
It contains nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association with many full-text articles. It also provides access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, audiovisuals and book chapters covering topics including nursing, biomedicine, and consumer health.
Nursing and Allied Health Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
This ProQuest database focuses on meeting the needs of those preparing for a career in healthcare, teaching patient care, or engaged in nursing research.
It provides access to scholarly journals, clinical training videos, books, conference papers and proceedings, figures, magazines, reports, tables, trade journals, and evidence-based resources, including dissertations and systematic reviews of which some are full-text but some have citation and abstract information only.
Health Reference Center Academic This link opens in a new window
A Gale online resource that integrates millions of articles from a wide range of full-text nursing and allied health journals, magazines, newsletters and select consumer health information sources.
There are full-text reference works and hundreds of health-related multimedia. It also provides more than 1,700 full-text sources and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries.
RVOneSearch This link opens in a new window
RVOneSearch may be an appropriate option for your Trends in Nursing research. The scope of this research tool goes beyond the nursing & allied health literature and you may see some overlap in content, but it is worth trying your topic to see what is out there is this much broader context.
It is a great place to begin your research with select key words to obtain a list of articles available throughout multiple databases as well as books, ebooks and websites accessible through RVCC’s library. Many limiters are available to modify your search such as full-text only, peer reviewed (scholarly), specific date ranges, or a specific database or source type.