Assignment instructions (from NUR 360B course packet-make sure to ask student about requirements before trotting these out, in case the instructor gave additional requirements in person)
- Sources must include, but are not limited to, at least five nursing-authored books, journal articles or texts, though no more than two texts may be used.
- Sources may not be older than 2006.
- Sources that do not meet the criteria may be approved in advance by the classroom faculty.
- The journal “Nursing Times” cannot be included as one of the five main sources.
CINAHL tips
- Remember there is a "nurse-authored" limit in CINAHL
- Only use limits that are absolutely required (don't choose "first author is a nurse" limit unless you're feeling really sadistic)
- If keyword searching doesn't work, set up a subject heading search using CINAHL headings
Need more sources?
PubMed - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/limits
- The "Limits" link lets you limit to Journal subset Nursing (not perfect but will cut out lots of junk)
- Quick and dirty check for nurse-author
- open a PubMed result and look under the author names for their affiliation. School of Medicine? Probably not a nurse. School of Nursing? Probably a nurse.
Get to full text by typing the journal name into Journal Finder. Look at the first page of the article. Most results will give author credentials next to the name, such as RN, CNM, etc. This page gives a list of common credentials for nurses and other health professionals...sorry for the wikipedia reference!
Need more sources?
The deeper you delve, the more labor-intensive the searching. We do have many nursing books in the basement. Maternal-child nursing books, for instance, are guaranteed to be written by a nurse, though you won't see this info until you look at the text itself.
Refer the patron to Lea if more help is needed.
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