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NUR 3165_W Harper: Practice 2

Practice Exercises 2

Exercise A:

For this exercise you will find research articles in English, written by a nurse, published in a Nursing journal.

Using CINAHL, type this into the search boxes:


chronic wounds (<----type this in the first search box)

and

therapy (<-----type this into the second search box)


Now, limit your search to Research Articles, in English, published only in Nursing Journals. To do this, check Research Articles and English in the Limits section below the search boxes.

To search for articles only in Nursing Journals, use the Journal Subset section, and select Nursing.


Now, to find articles written by nurses, do this:

nurs* (<-----type this in the third search box, and change the drop-down menu across from the box to Author Affiliation)


Question:

How many articles did you find when you performed this search?

a. more than 100

b. less than 5

c. between 20 and 50