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We’re going to begin with using CINAHL Complete.
As you probably already know, this database contains much of the information you will need throughout the nursing program.
Once you’ve gotten to CINAHL, you’ll notice that there are a great number of limiters to consider
before you begin your searching.
You could always simply try out your search term to see what comes up,
but it is often helpful to narrow your results from the get-go.
For this paper, we need peer-reviewed articles from the professional nursing literature
that are from the most recent 8 years.
Additionally, since you’re dealing with a very specific population,
it might be a good idea to limit your search by Age Group (
You can choose fetus, and/or Infant, newborn: birth – 1 month)
or the pregnancy limiter if you’re looking at an issue dealing with the mother.
For this ethical dilemma paper, we want to consider an ethical issue in terms of maternity nursing.
I’m going to look into circumcision of the male newborn.
One of the key things to remember when searching for information for this paper
is to include the word ethic with an asterisk
in your search string.
When I type ethic asterisk (ethic*) it will bring up results that have any suffix after the C in ethic.
So I will get ethics, ethical, ethicism, ethicist, ethicize, etc.
This trick with the asterisk works for any word that has a common root with many different endings,
for example, child* (children, childhood, childless).
Now that I’ve got everything ready to search,
I’ll do just that-
You can see that I have 24 articles.
You may be familiar with this sentence- “The RVCC Library does not have access to this article…)
which requires you to submit an interlibrary loan request (
remember this is a great way to get good articles, but you have to wait a day or two in order for them to arrive in the library).
If you only want to see articles you can access immediately,
click on “full-text” over on the side.
If I do that on this search, I now have 34 articles?!
That doesn’t make any sense!
What happened, was that the search cleared my date range.
SO I have to make sure to go back and update this to the most recent 8 years.
Type in the date,
then press enter on your keyboard.
Now I have 10 articles.
Ethical dilemmas normally investigate a specific side of an argument.
For my topic, it could be argued that circumcision is a normal, healthy decision.
It could also be argued that it is unnecessary, an as article 9 declares, “barbaric”.
Depending on your take on the topic, you should look at multiple points of view.
I’m going to look at article 9-
“Neonatal Circumcision: healthy practice or barbaric procedure?”
I can see that the source-
or the title of the journal in which this article was published
is called Nursing Children & Young People.
I can also see that it is peer-reviewed,
and it is a UK publication- which is ok for this paper.
Click on PDF to access the text of the article-
Right away, I can see that the info is actually about the United states,
so the Europe/UK declaration at the beginning shouldn’t scare you away from checking out an article!
This is a very short article, so you should probably go back to the results,
use a few more keywords;
ethical decisionmaking is a good idea--
and search with a few other ideas in order to get some more results.
One other feature I want to bring to your attention is the ‘Cite’ button.
When you click on Cite, you are presented with a citation for this article.
But I’m here to tell you that you should not copy and paste this citation because several things are incorrect!
For starters, if this was more than two lines long,
it would not be indented properly.
Additionally, if you copy and paste this,
the green color will come along too.
We’ve discovered many discrepancies in citations through our databases.
Sometimes they incorrectly have names capitalized and issue numbers in italics (they shouldn’t be!).
So take responsibility for your own work.
Use this as a general guideline to find the information, but format it yourself!
You know where to find me, so if you still need more help after watching this video,
don’t hesitate to reach out for assistance!
Good luck!