Like any other researcher, nurses who publish in peer-reviewed journals will often include their credentials (licenses, degrees, etc.) with their names.
So, one great strategy for pinpointing articles written by nurses is to use the Advanced Search in Primo (aka the Everything search on the library's homepage). There, you can search within the Author field for one or more nursing-specific credentials.
Follow these steps from the Primo Advanced Search screen:
1. In the first search box, type a few keywords to describe your topic
2. In the second search box, first change the Any field selection to Author. Then, type in the credentials you'd like the database to look for.
- If you're not sure which credentials to include, you might start with the ones that are common to most nurses. Explore Registered Nurses: How to Become One from the Occupational Outlook Handbook to begin - it describes a number of common licenses and degrees.
- If you have a particular certification in mind, you can try using Google to search for credentials. For example: pediatric nurse credentials or critical care nurse credentials
- You can search for many credentials at once by using an advanced Boolean technique called nesting. Simply connect each credential with "OR". For example: RN OR LPN OR LVN OR APRN OR CNS OR DNP OR DNS OR MSN OR BSN (and so on!)
3. Use the Material type filter to select Articles. If you would like to limit your sources by language and date, you may set those as well.
4. Click search and explore your results.
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