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Trends In Nursing
Your friendly Nursing Librarian
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:
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CINAHL Ultimate This link opens in a new window
An EBSCO database that provides access to many of the top nursing and allied health literature available.
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Nursing and Allied Health Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowThis ProQuest database focuses on meeting the needs of those preparing for a career in healthcare, teaching patient care, or engaged in nursing research.
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Health Reference Center Academic This link opens in a new windowA 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.
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RVOneSearch This link opens in a new windowRVOneSearch 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.
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ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowThis Elsevier database provides mostly full-text access to over 14 million scientific, technical and health publications from over 3,800 journals and more than 35,000 books.