Clinical Reference: Nursing

See also the Clinical Nursing page on this guide.

Nursing-specific

Interdisciplinary / Includes, but not limited to, nursing

Evidence-based reviews and summaries

• Put similar terms/synonyms in the same search box or in parenthesis separated by OR.
  • ("new nurse" OR "new nurses" OR "novice nurse" OR "novice nurses")
  • ("proton pump inhibitor" OR prilosec OR omeprazole)
  • "early mobility" OR "early ambulation" OR "early mobilization"
     
• Only one search box? Use parentheses to keep similar terms grouped together.
  • (cancer OR oncology) AND (resilience OR resiliency)
  • (soup OR stew OR broth OR gumbo) AND (flu OR influenza)
     
• Searching for variations of a word? Remove the ending and add an asterisk to search for all variations.
  • educat* finds education, educate, or educating
  • nurs* finds nurse, nurses, or nursing
     
• Search for phrases with double quotes
  • “nurse practitioner”
  • “hospital-acquired”
  • "intensive care unit"
  • "quiet time"

Too many results? Try:

• Sort by Relevance or Best Match instead of date and stop when results don't fit
   
• Add another component to your search (think PICO format)
   
• Adding a unit name or setting
   
• Limiting to past 5 or 10 years
   
• Reducing the number of similar words you use

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