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Further Reading on Implementing Practice Change and Clinical Guidelines

Searching for Articles about a Practice Change

For this search, the databases Cinahl, Medline Complete, and Ovid would be good choices.  If you search in one and can't find what you need, try a similar search in one of the others.  If that doesn't work, broaden the search even more by using the large search box on the Library's welcome page.  Below is a search in Cinahl using anemia as a topic to help focus the search.  Where you see anemia is where you would put your topic.  


  • Just above the large search box on the Library's homepage is a tab labeled Databases List  Click on that tab.
  • Click on CINAHL Plus in the box.
  • On the next screen, in the top search box type: anemia
  • In the middle search box type: guidelines
  • Scroll down until you see the box labeled Journal Subset
  • Scroll through the box until you see Nursing and click on it.  

(Medline Complete has a similar box.  Click here to see how to limit to nursing journals in Ovid)

  • Scroll back up to the top of the screen and click on Search

There will be several articles that could be helpful.  This one seems to have the type of information that needs to be covered in the discussion board post.  Click on PDF Full Text

Scroll through the article and look at the headings to see if they seem to fit what is required.  In this case, one heading mentions obstacles.

Another heading mentions the clinical guidelines that were used.

If the headings are not helpful, look through the abstract to see if what you need is mentioned in there.  If so, then, scan the article to see if you can find the information  Once you do find it, go back and read the entire article.

You could also try replacing guidelines with: "practice change".  Be sure to use the quotation marks.  They tell the search engine to look for those words together.

A tip for searching in OVID

Once Ovid opens, click on Multi-Field Search so that more options will be available for search.

In the top search box type: nursing 

Change the top drop down menu so that it shows Journal Subset

This will limit the results to nursing journals.

Then, put your other search terms into the other search boxes and click on Search