This guide for Nursing 210 will help you use the best research tools for finding nursing and medical journal articles.
Don't miss our nursing subject guide for access to additional resources from the CCAC Library.
Use the nursing journals page to browse current tables of contents and connect to full text articles for over 20 journal titles.
Use the premium research databases listed below to search and access millions of articles from reputable publications like journals, magazines, and reference books.
Best bet! Start here! Provides full text for more than 1300 journals indexed in CINAHL and is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals.
Start your search with the PICOT method. PICOT stands for:
View the slides that were used in the class session.
Use SIMPLE KEYWORDS in search boxes:
ethics and cancer
ethics and euthanasia
liability and clinical
legal and home health
"legislation and jurisprudence" and nursing
Use LIMITERS to narrow the results.
Research articles follow a specific format and are organized into standard sections. Skim the abstract and article for the following sections:
Introduction
Participants
Objectives
Methods
Discussion
Conclusion
References
