Searching CINAHLNUR 2540: Introduction to Professional Nursing

AIC Shea Library

Sample Searches• Topic: • Nursing care of the infant and family in the neonatal intensive care unit.

• What are the keywords? • Nursing, care, infant, family, neonatal intensive care.

• How will you enter those words in the search boxes? • Use Boolean operators.• Truncation, • And Grouping.

What does that look like? The topic for this search is: nursing care of the infant and family in the neonatal intensive care.

The topic was broken down into the following keywords:Care AND infant AND “neonatal intensive care” ANDFamily OR parent* AND nurs*

Why?AND combines terms. It tells the database to bring back both of those terms. OR tells the database to bring back either term. Using quotation marks to group phrases tells the database to keep those terms together. Using an * to truncate a word tells the database to bring back any variation of that word.

Limiters• For this assignment you will want to apply the following limiters:• Date 2010-2015• Peer-reviewed• Research article• Evidence-based practice

• Note: your assignment asks for one research article and one evidence-based practice article (not one in the same). You will have to do two separate searches.

Another Sample Search• Topic: The use of simulation in nursing education. • What are the keywords? • Simulation AND “nurs* education”.

Simulation AND Nurs* Education

Simulation AND Nurs* Education

Now, let’s try it out!