Nursing Resource Center with Allied Health (NRC)
This nursing specific database from Gale combines journal article access from over 400 titles with literature for care plans, assessment, nursing diagnosis, interventions, drug overviews and animated anatomy and physiology diagram multimedia.
For a search about teenage pregnancy, follow the following steps:
- Access NRC.
- Enter the terms teenage pregnancy into the find box.
- Click Subdivisions to see what areas you might want to explore on this subject.
- Click Risk Factors. You should see over 40 different articles on this subject. If the article isn't available in full text from NRC, click on the "Use LinkSource to find the full text" to see whether the article is available in another database, or you can request the article through Interlibrary Loan.
- To see all the articles, interventions, and care plans about teenage pregnancy, type teenage pregnancy in the Quick Search box on the left side of the page. The Quick Search will find everything in the database that talks about teenage pregnancy.
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) Plus with Full Text
"This database is the world's most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for more than 770 journals. This database offers complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this authoritative file offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters."
CINAHL includes:
- Full text for more than 770 journals
- Full text for more than 275 books/monographs
- Full-text coverage dating back to 1937
- Indexing for more than 5,000 journals
- More than 3.2 million records dating back to 1937
- Searchable cited references for more than 1,360 journals
- Full text for more than 130 Evidence-Based Care Sheets
- Full text for nearly 170 Quick Lessons
- Full text for 360 research instruments records
- Full text for over 160 CEUs
For this class assignment, you will probably want to spend most of your time searching CINAHL. We will cover other databases later, which will also assist in finding articles for your presentation.
This database uses controlled vocabulary, or indexed terms to allow you to reduce the number of words or phrases you need to use to find a topic. For example, say we have a research question to find articles from the last three years on nursing the pregnant teenager.
A basic search in CINAHL using the following terms results in:
| teen pregnancy (keywords) | 339 records |
| teenage pregnancy (keywords) | 627 records |
| pregnancy in adolescence (CINAHL Heading) | 3643 records |
| pregnancy in adolescence (keywords) | 3733 records |
This short video below demonstrates the techniques for finding the correct subject heading or descriptor and searching for that term.
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CINAHL Sample Search CINAHL demonstration (Adobe Flash Player required) |
Try this exercise:Use the CINAHL Thesaurus and look up diabetes. What is the official CINAHL Descriptor? What is the difference between "diabetes in pregnancy" and "diabetes mellitus, gestational"? |