The SC4 library subscribes to several excellent nursing and allied health databases. When looking for research articles, it is sometimes easiest to use a nursing database to find information because it automatically narrows your results to medical information.
CINAHL Ultimate is the largest nursing database. CINAHL stands for Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. Although it does not matter whether you begin your search using OneSearch, the library's federated search, or a subject-specific database such as CINAHL Ultimate, using CINAHL will automatically narrow your results to nursing materials.
Written directions and a video demonstrating how to use CINAHL Ultimate to find research articles are below. You may choose to view whichever if more convenient for you.
You can limit your search results to research articles in CINAHL. They may or may not include the term "original" on the full text. You cannot successfully search the term: "original research"
Begin by finding CINAHL Ultimate either using the A to Z Databases link on the library homepage to by using the Nursing Library Research Guide.
Entered below is the search string: "breast feeding" AND nursing
To narrow the results to research articles, check the Research Article box as indicated.
If you would like to narrow your results to current articles, use the date scroll bar in the left-hand column of your results.
The results are narrowed to articles published from 2018 to date.
The 13th article in the result list looks relevant to the topic.
More information about the article and a link to the PDF is given by clicking on the title.
Updated December 2023.
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