NURS - Resources for BSN Students

Step 1: Use the Library website's A-Z Database List to access the CINAHL database. The CINAHL database contains Nursing and Allied Health articles.

Step 2: Enter keywords relating to your case. For example, if you are looking for evidence of nursing interventions for an adult who had hip replacement surgery, then the following keywords are relevant:

• Arthroplasty - Also called joint replacement. Hip replacement surgery is a common type of Arthroplasty. 

• Education - Education is one type of nursing intervention among many. Consider using intervention words (e.g. education, pain management, therapy, etc.) in your search. 

• Research - Adding the keyword research to your search will help you to retrieve articles that utilize a research design. 

• Nurs* - Adding a star, also known as an asterisk, to the end of this word will help you to retrieve articles containing the word variations of nurse, nurses, nursing. This little trick will help you to find articles authored by nurses. 

Step 3: Use the "Refine Results" tool to limit your results to articles published with the past 5 years. 

Step 4: Evaluate the articles based on the requirements of your assignment. Click on the titles of relevant articles and look for clues that the paper is a research article, with at least one nurse author, published in a nursing journal during the past 5 years. 

Step 5: View the full text of the article to complete your evaluation of the article as appropriate and useful for your assignment. If there's no PDF FullText immediately visible in CINAHL, (A.) click the Check RIC Library for Full Text link, and then (B.) View Full Text link if it's available, and (C.) read the full text. If not available, you may opt to Get it Through InterLibrary Loan.

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