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University of Southern Maine
Libraries & Learning

NUR 308: Concepts of Professional Nursing Practice: Our Library Session

Learning objectives for this class

After our library session, you will be able to:

- Locate CINAHL from the library homepage or My USM Portal

- Know how to log in to CINAHL from off campus

- Use the CINAHL thesaurus and alternative strategies to help you find useful search terms

- Use appropriate connectors and limit functions to construct a CINAHL search that retrieves a reasonable number of relevant results

- Use Article Linker successfully most of the time

- Determine whether USM has an article for which you already have a citation

- Request an article via ILLiad

- Get in touch with a live library staff member when you need help.

CINAHL Search Practice