Friday, October 19, 2012

NUR 360 nurse as first author research articles

Today a NUR 360 student came for help finding ONE
  • recent (past 5 years)
  • research (you know the drill-no lit reviews)
  • article
  • where the first author is a nurse
Since I actually saw current assignment instructions and it's likely that other students will be coming for help, I created a NUR 360 libguide

Two approaches to this kind of assignment -

use a terribly narrow "first author is a nurse" limit in CINAHL 
OR
use Google Scholar or similar broad search to get the student going in the general direction, then explain how fun it is to look at the first page of each article until they find one with a nurse first author

If the student is open to a wildly broad topic, approach #1 is fastest and easiest.

FYI, the instructions ask students to use a topic that hasn't been covered in class.

Sorry the guide is all text. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,
Lea

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