NURS 101: Advanced Entry BSN

You need to write a 3 page academic paper on one of the philosophical tenets underlying the Langara BSN curriculum. Consult and cite at least 3 articles from peer-reviewed journals in your paper, using APA Style.

The place to search is....

CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature

• Articles from 5,400 journals in nursing and allied health fields
• First place to search when your topic has a nursing focus

Sample search topic:

how feminism informs undergraduate nursing curriculum

1. Write down your search topic: how feminism informs undergraduate nursing curriculum 
   - Write down your search topic in one sentence and identify the main concepts.
   - A concept can be expressed as a single word or a phrase.
   - The concepts will be your search terms.
    
2. Write out your search query: feminism AND nursing  AND undergraduate
   - Combine your search terms with AND
   - AND between search terms means 'find all my search terms'
    
3. Use Truncation Symbol: *
   - * is the truncation symbol used in Google and most library databases
   - feminis* will search for feminism, feminist, feminists, etc.
    
4. Apply Limiters: apply these 3 filters for this (and most) nursing assignments:
   a) English Language is pre-selected by default
   
   b. Peer Reviewed will limit results to articles from peer reviewed journals
   
   c. Publication Date --> Past 5 years is a safe general limit to apply for "recent/current" articles. If in doubt, check with your instructor.

What this looks like in CINAHL: