_NURS 4265: Nursing Past as Prologue — Find Articles

These journals are dedicated to the history of nursing and medicine.

Recommended databases that include articles about well known figures in nursing and medicine.

Best tip: Search your topic in the History of Medicine subset within PubMed.

• Go to PubMed
• Select Topic-Specific Queries located under PubMed Tools
• Select History of Medicine and run your search.

Other search tips:

 1. Apply the subheading /history (or /hi) to a Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) or your search topic

• Enter MeSH term in search box:  leeching/hi
• Enter Keyword in search box:      cancer AND history[sh]

 2. Search a personal name as a subject, such as Lillian Wald, using the abbreviation [PS]

• Enter in search box:  Wald L[ps]

 3. Search a person as an author.

• Wald L[au]

  4. Limit search of a person using filters "Biography," "Portraits," or "Personal Narratives" found under Article Types on left side of search screen

• Nightingale F

Search your topic using these examples:

1. Use keywords with the option of specifying where your term(s) should appear in the article using the drop-down box.

• leech* and histor*   The asterisk is a truncation symbol.

2. Use CINAHL Headings and select History as a subheading for that term.

•   Leech therapy/History

3. Search a historical person and limit to author (AU) or as Named Person (NP) from the drop down box.

• Wald, L in NP Named Person
• Wald, L in AU Author
• Lillian Wald (searched as a phrase)