Nursing 213 (Nursing 3): Find Scholarly Articles

DIRECTIONS

Find scholarly articles on your topics in the library databases.

Go to https://www.ccm.edu/student-support/library/   Click on Library Start Page.   

You may also just go directly to the Library Start Page at ccm.libguides.com/Library

Once on the Library Start Page, click on Assignments. 

Click on Database List.

Scroll down and click on the following database: 

CINAHL

Enter your Username and Password when prompted by the proxy server login box

Click on the link to ADVANCED SEARCH and bring up 3 keyword boxes

Limit to Full text, enter your topic and search.

Box 1:  Temperature

Box 2:  Oral AND (Scan* OR Tympanic OR Skin)

Box 3:  Accuracy or Accurate

From the results page, on the left, you may choose limiters, such as: 

Publication Date = 2010 to 2020 

Put a check in the box for "Peer-reviewed Journals"

Age =  Adult

Methodology = Empirical Study

Optional:  If you still have too many results, you can also choose a topic under the Subject limiter

Click on the Title of an article of interest

Note the Following Fields:

Authors & Affiliations

The Source (The name of the Journal that published this article) 

The Abstract (Or summary of the article)

The Publication History (Submission, Revision and Publication Dates)

The Digital Object Identifier (or, DOI number, needed for the citation)

On the right side, click on the CITE icon for a DRAFT of an APA citation.

On the left side, look for the PDF of the full text article and click on it

From the Adobe Acrobat Reader page, read the article.   Click the down arrow to save it to your computer or flash drive.