NURS 230 Health Promotion and Wellness

Short videos 

These videos can assist with helping you become more familiar with locating journal articles for your assignments.

Source: North Carolina State University / You Tube

How do I focus to nursing journals when searching for articles? 

• Using the different journal databases or OneSearch

• One of the search boxes type “nursing” OR nurs*”

• Nurs* will look for nurse, nurses, nursing

• Change “Select a Field” box or ANYWHERE box next to search box in database to SO Publication Title OR Publication Title.

• In PubMed database type “nurs*”[journal] in search box

How do I know if a journal is Peer-Reviewed or Refereed?

• Two main ways:

1. Visit Ulrich’s Periodical Directory

• • Steps to Ulrich’s : Library homepage >> Databases >> Scroll to Ulrich’s

  • Look for “black/white jersey” symbol

2. Google the Journal Name.

• Go directly to Journal Publisher’s website.

• Look in the “About” section for description saying “peer-reviewed” or Refereed.

• Example: Journal of Nursing Administration https://journals.lww.com/jonajournal/pages/d efault.aspx

Primary research articles or sometimes also called Original research articles tend to have a certain format --

Look for certain headings -- this is not all the time but often

Abstract

Introduction / background

Methods

Results / Findings

Conclusion / Summary

Also look for the "number of participants" in the study

Review articles are NOT primary research they are "summaries" --- no meta-analysis, no systematic reviews, no scoping reviews. 

There are 2 handouts under the handouts tab that might be useful --- Parts of a Research Article, Finding Scholarly Journal Articles.

Possible other guides that might be helpful for this course.