NURS 4100 - Summer 2014

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Library 101 Effective Searching CINAHL Plus with Full Text Nursing Resources

NURS 4100 Nursing Research

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Effective Searching

How do you search?

Identify search concepts

cardiovascular disease heart disease cardiac vascular atherosclerosis hypertension coronary artery

treatment prevention diagnosis prognosis

Condition - Disease Question Type

Identify search concepts

age sex ethnicity socioeconomic status

mortality rates disease incidence pain disability lower risk specific value

Patient Demographics Measurable Outcomes

Connecting Your Terms

AND = narrow

OR = expand

NOT = exclude

nutrition AND cholesterol

migraine OR headache

aneurysm NOT brain

Search Strategy

“sleep apnea” AND (headache OR migraine) AND work absences

(“cerebrovascular accident” OR CVA OR stroke) AND (aphasia OR language) AND (prevention OR decrease risk)

• Use “ “ or ( ) to keep words together & in order• Connect different concepts with AND• Connect similar concepts with OR

Search Strategy Worksheet

Concept 1

AND

Concept 2

AND

Concept 3

Main idea Related idea Subtopic

OR OR OR

Synonym Synonym Synonym

OR OR OR

Synonym Synonym Synonym

Advanced Search Features

Limiters full text

scholarly (peer reviewed) date

By typeinformation sources not created equal

Advanced Search Features

Limiters subject

controlled vocabulary used by indexers to describe the content

Advanced Search Features

truncation type part of a word plus an asterisk (*) into the search

box to find variations of a word stem nurs* finds nurse, nurses, nursing

medica* finds medical, medication

obes* finds obese, obesity

pregnan* finds pregnant, pregnancy

Literature covering the fields of nursing and allied health

CINAHL Plus with Full Text

Homepage: Basic Search

Publication Search

enter journal name or subject area

Change radio button

Publication Record

Indexing & full text coverage

Publication Record

Indexing & full text coverage

Publication Record

New Search: Advanced Search

Advanced Search

Limit Your Results

Limit Your Results

Limit Your Results

Results List

Results List

Results List

Detailed Record

Full Text Access

Search History

My EBSCOhost

Nursing Resources

Print Resources

Class R = Medicine (General) RB Pathology RC Internal Medicine RD Surgery RG Gynecology & obstetrics RJ Pediatrics RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology RT Nursing

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