Research Guides: NUR204 Introduction to Professional Nursing: Articles Written by a Nurse

Your Assignment

RN Credentials

If you have the credentials for an author and are not sure if they are a registered nurse, check the following:

Pennsylvania Online License Verification Service
Search for license information on individuals and businesses regulated by the Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs. This site is considered a primary source for verification of license credentials provided by the Pennsylvania Department of State.
Nursys: QuickConfirm License Verification System
Online nursing reports for employers, nurses and the general public. Search by name or license number.
Google
Use Google to find other state licensure sites as well as looking up authors by place of employment.
Nursing Credentials and Certifications
There is a large variety of credentials one can hold other than an RN. This alphabetical list from Wikipedia can help you determine the credentials of your article authors by looking up the acronyms after their names.

Journal Locator

Journal Locator
Search for the title of the journal, magazine, or newspaper in which your article appears.

Interlibrary Loan

Interlibrary Loan
Use Tipasa to request articles, books, etc., that we don't have.

CINAHL

CINAHL® Complete This link opens in a new window
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Provides broad content coverage including 50 nursing specialties, speech and language pathology, nutrition, general health and medicine and more.

Tips for finding evidence-based research articles written by a nurse within the last 5 years:

Use the Advanced Search feature
Enter "this study", "case study", or "pilot study" (including quotation marks) in the search box
Check the box under Any Author is Nurse
Check the box under Peer Reviewed
Specify under Published Date a range that encompasses the last 5 years

You can also limit your search by checking a box under Evidence-Based Practice, or by choosing a specific publication type (Case Study, Research, etc.).

ProQuest

Nursing & Allied Health Database This link opens in a new window
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Provides healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and more. Designed for researchers at healthcare facilities as well as nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions.

Tips for finding evidence-based research articles written by a nurse within the last 5 years:

Use the Advanced search feature
Enter "this study", "case study", or "pilot study" (including quotation marks) in one of the search boxes
Enter RN in one of the search boxes and change Anywhere to Author --- AU
Check the box next to Peer reviewed
Specify a date range that encompasses the last 5 years

PubMed

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Comprises more than 35 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Be sure to use this link to see full-text options available through Madigan Library.

Tips for finding evidence-based research articles written by a nurse within the last 5 years:

Add nursing credentials (e.g., RN) to your search as a keyword. In the citation, click on the +Author Information link to possibly view credentials for verification.
Search by affiliation [ad]: nursing, RN, etc.
Use the limit options to filter citations for systematic reviews, meta-analyses, reviews of clinical trials, evidence-based medicine, consensus development conferences, and guidelines.
Filter results by Article type (clinical trial, randomized controlled trial, etc.)
Choose see additional filters, select journal categories, then choose nursing journals
Use Advanced search to narrow your topic further. e.g. find an article with your keywords in a Title/Abstract (All Fields)
Add nursing[mh] to the search box followed by AND plus your search terms to limit results to nursing articles, e.g., nursing[mh] AND prenatal care