Does anyone know where to find nursing articles?

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Hi,

I would greatly appreciate any advice on where to find nursing articles.

We need to use articles that are no more than 5 years old and are evidence based written by a nurse.

My school does have a database that we can search but it does not allow us access to a full article most of the time, and most of what I find are written by doctors not nurses.

I have spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to find these articles. Any help is much appreciated :)

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.

Does your school use CINAHL or Ovid? That is the source I used in school for finding EBP articles written by nurses. Ask your school's library if they have CINAHL or Ovid.

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Specializes in Gerontological, cardiac, med-surg, peds.

My article on how to perform a literature review (finding evidence-based journal articles) may be of help to you:

https://allnurses.com/nursing-student-assistance/how-conduct-literature-751831.html

I've always found this to be a very helpful site Lippincott Nursing CE Connection: https://nursing.ceconnection.com/nu/public/default?uid=&ts=201309070938&ha=

The access to their full-length articles is free; you just have to pay to take the test at the end if you want to get CE credit.

Hope this helps! Best wishes to you :)

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Doesn't your school, or the local hospital, have binders full of past AJNs, RNs, etc.? In the, like, library?

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Thank you for the replies :)

GrnTea - If my school had binders full of nursing journals in the library I wouldn't have a problem finding journals. LOL! And apparently the database for our schools library doesn't allow access to full articles.

I just thought I would ask if anyone knew of any good websites to find articles as I have already explored what is made available at my schools library and even the local public library.

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Try the hospital library, too. They should have one. :)

I do a lot of article retrieval for work. Alas, while PubMed and Google Scholar can lead you to a lot of articles, getting more than just the abstracts can be a pain, and an expensive one at that. Perhaps your class could petition the library to subscribe to CINAHL/EBSCO, perhaps in conjunction with other schools.

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Specializes in Hospice + Palliative.

Just out of curiosity, what school are you going to? I find it more than a little bit unsettling that any school that has a nursing program does not provide access to evidence-based scholarly nursing journals! Are you near any other colleges or universities that have nursing departments? I'd suggest checking their libraries. How about your local public library? Where I live, we have access to all the library material county-wide, so if a library in another town has a journal/book I'm interested in, I just request it through inter-library loan and it shows up at my local branch within a week or so.

I'd definitely voice my concern at the lack of up-to-dat eeducational materials to your department head, as well!

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