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Nursing : Databases

Resources on nursing theorists found in the library and on the Web.

Database basics

                                      

  • Add quotation marks around terms with more than one word

ex: "diabetes mellitus"

  • Add an asterisk at the end of a truncated (partial) word. The database will search a wide combination of terms such as: nursing, nurses, etc.

ex: nurs* 

CINAHL step-by-step

To access this database, scroll down to the databases button and click on it.

Then click on the letter C and scroll down and click on CINAHL.

Databases are set by default to the advanced search, which will have several boxes for terms/keywords/subject headings

The top box is "weighted" which means that the term input into this box is the "most relevant" (your primary subject)

OhioLINK Databases

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