Nursing

Here is a link to the CINAHL nursing article database:

• Search limits you may want to use:
  • Limit date to last five years,
  • Under Journal Subset, choose Core Nursing,
  • One of the authors is a nurse,
  • Peer-reviewed, if appropriate for your assignment. 
• At the top of the CINAHL search screen: Evidence-based Care Sheets and Quick Lessons, on various conditions.
• Here are time-saving CINAHL tutorials: 

Please click LOGOFF when done.

You may also try these science and medical article databases. Mouse over the database names to see descriptions of each. 

Use CINAHL's Advanced Search to narrow results:

• published in the last five years
• scholarly (peer-reviewed) articles 
• one of the authors is a nurse
• by language if needed
• Add "United States" if needed. 

Sample searches​​​​​​: 
Try these CINAHL searches.
Limit results to the last five years.  

• conscience  AND nurs*
• compassion AND nurs*
• competence AND  nurs*
• comportment AND nurs* 
  • This search may work better:
    comportment OR "social behavior" AND nurs*
    (social behavior is a better search term for the idea of comportment, but doesn't start with a C!)
• confidence AND nurs*
• commitment AND nurs*

Some helpful links: 

To research nurse unions, use the library databases CINAHL and ProQuest Central, linked below. Some search terms to try: 

• nurs* AND union*
• nurs* AND "collective bargaining" 
• nurs* AND non-unionized

Some search tips:

• In library databases, the * symbol at the end of a word searches for all endings:
  • nurs* finds nurses, nurse, nursing
  • union* finds union, unions.
• The quotation marks will search those words together as a phrase.

Some things to note:

• If you are off-campus, you will be prompted to sign-in with your student network ID and password.
• Copy and paste the words above or type the two search ideas into the advanced search box in each database. 
• After you click "search" in these databases, you can browse through your results, or narrow it down even further with the limiters on the left-side of the screen.
• You may want to adjust your search words. Check out the subject headings box and select the terms that would be relevant to what you are looking for.

Good luck! And please don't hesitate to email us at librarian@sunyacc.edu if you have any further questions. We're also happy to set up a Zoom research session if you'd like.