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NUR 106: Concepts of Nursing and NUR 050: Transition into Associate Degree Nursing

Highlighting the most relevant resources for beginning nursing students.

Quoting Quality Sources

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Highlight, take notes, and otherwise mark up articles from quality sources, peer reviewed, if possible. Quote or paraphrase what you find, giving credit to the authors.  

Databases for Nursing

Search Tips

Some tasks can be made easier with advanced search settings.
Assignments often call for the exclusive use of Nursing Journals published in the United States.
To set these limiters in the CINAHL database, scroll down to examine the filters.

CINAHL filters

For Journal Subset, use the dropdown list and select "Nursing." For the Geographic Subset, choose "USA."

Journal and geographic subsets

Return to the search box above and run your search. You should see this among your filters:

active filters - nursing and USA

Tutorial: How to find articles