Nursing Library Instruction -- Practice with CINAHL

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CINAHL Practice

Go therefore Click into the CINAHL with Full Text database, and let's perform some searches.

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CINAHL Practice

Go therefore Using the top search box, type in a search for patient falls and click Search.

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CINAHL Practice

How many results did you get?

CINAHL Practice

Go therefore Refine your search by adding the term staffing in a second search box.

Let's narrow our search by finding articles that include information about both patient falls and staffing.  Which Boolean operator would we use for this search?

CINAHL Practice

Go therefore Next, refine your search by adding the term hospital in a third search box.

Let's narrow our search by finding articles that excludes information about hospitals.  Which Boolean operator would we use for this search?

CINAHL Practice

Go therefore Use the Advanced Search to include resources published in 2012 or later with a geographic subset of USA.

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CINAHL Practice

Go therefore Use the Refine Results to include resources with References Available.

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CINAHL Practice

Go therefore Find the article Regulating Patient Staffing: A Complex Issue and open the PDF Full Text file.

CINAHL Practice

Go therefore Now, pull a citation for this article in APA and paste it in the box below.

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CINAHL Practice

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