Nursing resources

NURSING RESOURCESFor NUR 210

What Will Be Covered• The assignment• The Library website• What are journals?• Finding journal articles• Finding reliable online nursing resources• APA formatting &NoodleBib

The Assignment• Find a minimum of 3 current scholarly articles

• From nursing journals• Peer-reviewed• Less than 5 years old

• Print one of the articles you find• Develop an APA title page and reference page

• Including the articles you have found• Two websites or other relevant nursing resources

Library Website

What are Journals?

Why are Journals Important?• Peer-reviewed information

• Reliable information that your professors approve!

• Tested and vetted by other people in the field

• Cover important topics in your field• Written by other nurses• Original research

Finding Journal Articles• Use Library Databases:

• CINAHL • PubMed • ScienceDirect

• Develop keywords before you search• Take clues from the information you find• Ask for help!• Search Tips:

• Use “*” at the root of a word to get more word options• i.e. searching “nurs*” will search for the terms; nurse, nurses, nursing,

etc…• Use this when your word can’t turn into another word completely

Searching in CINAHL

Reviewing Results

Check for the DATE & your SEARCH TERMSCheck for the DATE & your SEARCH TERMS

Looking at Records

Use the CITE button to help & the SUBJECTS to enhance your search

Use the CITE button to help & the SUBJECTS to enhance your search

Online Resources• Evaluation is Key!• You need to critically evaluate EVERYTHING you find• Use the CRAAP Test

• Currency- timeliness of information• Relevance- information relating to your topic• Authority- source of the information• Accuracy- reliability, truthfulness, correctness• Purpose- the reason the information exists

Using Google to Your AdvantageAdd your SEARCH TERM & limit by DOMAIN (.org, .gov, .edu)

Add your SEARCH TERM & limit by DOMAIN (.org, .gov, .edu)

APA Format• Grab the citation from CINAHL• Copy and Paste the citation into NoodleBib • Check the citation against the guide

provided for you!• Or Build your citation for journal articles

and web resources in NoodleBib