Now that you have a narrower question to search, we recommend starting your search with the databases CINAHL and PubMed.
CINAHL stands for the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. CINAHL includes citations and abstracts for more than 2,900 nursing and allied health journals from 1981 to the present plus health care books and book chapters, nursing dissertations, conference proceedings, and more. This database is largely nursing literature but reflects the interdisciplinary nature of nursing. The language and structure of CINAHL demonstrate its focus on the patient.
PubMed provides access to MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine's database of citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, health care systems, and preclinical sciences. MEDLINE comprises approximately 5,200 journals published in more than 80 countries. The articles indexed in PubMed tend to focus on the disease, treatment, or procedure.
PubMed includes PubMed Central (PMC), the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. When accessing PubMed through the Gumberg Library website, be sure to click on PubMed@Duquesne because it includes all the free PubMed Central Resources AND all the resources for which Duquesne pays that are not made freely available by the National Institutes of Health. Learn more about using PubMed @ Duquesne by watching this tutorial video.
Click here to access PubMed@Duquesne through the Gumberg Library.
CINAHL and PubMed aren't the only databases you can use, although we do strongly recommend them. If you need to expand your search, Gumberg subscribes to a variety of other health science databases.
Click here to see Gumberg Library’s health sciences databases.
