Nursing Issues paper assignment

[ava'smomRN]

hey guys! i have been so busy with my fundamentals course and new job that i really have forgotten that i have another class, nursing history. for the nuirsing history class i have to do a paper on issues that effect the nursing profession as a whole. i want to do my paper on what the entry level of nursing should be, but i am having trouble trying to find information on the topic. i can only use peer-reviewed articles, i have been to the ana website, ajn, and i am using some of my schools reources through the web. i really want to do this topic but i am feeling that i wont be able to find enough info. does anyone have any other ideas of issues i could use? or know of any other resources?????? ihave to hand in my outilne and references this coming thursday 9/29...... any help would be great! thanks :)

[KatieBell]

There should be TONS of articles peer reviewed etc, on this topic as it continues to be of debate.

Have you used CINAHL? I am embarrassed but I can not recall what it stands for. but, your schools library should have a subscription to it, it is a database of nursing and allied health articles. You can enter in search terms and limit your search ot say the last five years and only perr reviewed things. You'll have to enter into the library to do this, but it should be well worth it. It might even have some foreign articles in it, if you compare the US standards to European ones, that will add soemthing different to your paper for sure.

Good Luck.

Oh yes, one more tip for all: If you have two articles, find/look up some of the articles the authors cited in their articles. Voila, research made a bit faster and easier.

[VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN]

Here are examples of resources that can be used in your literature search:

http://www.hsl.ecu.edu/databases/databases.cfm

Every university and community college offers free access to resources such as these to the enrolled students. Often, you can locate full articles.