The SC4 library subscribes to a number of 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 down your results to medical information.
CINAHL Ultimate is the largest nursing database. CINAHL stands for Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. Although you could conduct the search OneSearch on the library homepage, it is often best to start with the subject database such as CINAHL Ultimate. CINAHL will automatically narrow your results to nursing materials.
Look for these features in an article to verify that is a research article:
An additional resource which may help you identify a research article is linked to below.
How do you find "original research" articles on nursing topics?
A research article is a primary source of information. It may be referred to by an instructor as an "original" research article.
Updated December 2023.
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, the Research Article box is checked as indicated below.
Use the date scroll bar in the left-hand column of your results to narrow to a specific date range.
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.