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Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) Research Guide: NURS124/125

 

Nursing 124/125--Locate a Scholarly Article

 

Try one of the methods demonstrated below to locate your scholarly journal article.

Also, you may browse within a specific journal by entering the title of the journal in the search box found here.

Method 1: Search In our WorldCat catalog

Step One:  Click the Catalog Search button;

you'll be directed to the Advanced Search screen.

Step Two:

     

Step Three:

Method 2: Search in the CINAHL database

Step 1:  Accessing CINAHL

Select CINAHL in our A-Z Databases list.  If off-campus, you may be prompted to log in with your LMU username (first.lastname; OMIT @lmunet.edu) and password.

Step 2: Enter search terms.

      a) Begin by entering your medical or nursing diagnosis in one search box.

      b) In a second search box, enter nurs*. This will cause the system to search titles and summaries for the terms nurse, nurses, nursing--any term beginning with nurs.

      c) In a third search box, enter usa, and then set the dropdown option to SB (journal subset).  This will cause the system to search for your topic in journals from (mostly) the U.S. You do NOT want to search for the topic U.S.A.; you want to search in a set of journals published in the U. S. A., so be sure to set the dropdown option to SB.

     d) In your search Results, be sure to set your date range to five years.

 

Still need help?

Still Need Help?

If the steps above did not enable you to find a helpful article, try some of these suggestions:

  • Condense your nursing diagnosis to one word: "risk for injury"--> injury
  • Instead of a nursing diagnosis, enter an intervention:  "fall prevention"
  • Enter an intervention and nic: "dying care" nic
  • In an additional search box (use the +), enter nic OR noc OR nanda OR "nursing interventions"