This guide provides information on the many different library and Internet resources available to Washburn University BSN students, some basic tips on how to conduct research, and contact information if you need assistance from a librarian. Use the tabs along the top of the page to explore the different resources.
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School of Nursing |
Phone & Fax Ph: 785.670.1525 Fax: 785.670.1032 |
Email School of Nursing Undergraduate Programs RN-to-BSN Program Graduate Programs |
| Undergraduate BSN & LPN-to-BSN Programs |
RN-to-BSN Program | Graduate Programs |
| Louisa Schurig Petro Allied Health Bldg., Room 203 785.670.2177 louisa.schurig@washburn.edu |
Leah Brown |
Indigo Wilson-Schmidt |
Renew or apply for an
undergraduate nursing scholarship
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Boolean Search |
Boolean searches allow you to combine words and phrases using the words AND, OR, NOT (known as Boolean operators) to limit, broaden, or define your search. | ||
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AND - results will contain both terms OR - results will have at least one of the terms NOT - results will exclude this term |
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| Keyword and Subject Field Search | Check the subject headings/descriptors for individual articles in your searches and repeat your search using these terms. Please note, subject headings are not consistent across databases. | ||
| Default database searches generally search for queries across multiple sections of of an article, such as: all authors, all subjects, all keywords, all titles, and all abstracts. |
Avoid using uppercase in EBSCOhost. Search Field codes employ capitalized two-character strings and if your search correlates to one, EBSCOhost will apply that search field, returning unexpected results |
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| Searching with Quotations | Utilize quotations when you require keywords to appear as a phrase, exactly how you have them typed. | ||
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Databases vary in how they process queries with and without quotations. Some, for example, process words typed together as phrases, whether or not you use quotation marks |
Phrase searches can help exclude false search hits as some concepts some words will allude to different concepts based on whether they appear together or not. "Skin" and "cancer" can be separate concepts or combined to refer to Many concepts do not need to be conveyed through a singular phrase. Using quotation marks can end up excluding similarly topical resources. "Vegetable quality" will return results but may not provide related results such as: "quality attributes of vegetables" "microbial quality of vegetables" "produce quality evaluation" |
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| Truncated Search | Employ truncated searches for expanded and flexible results. | ||
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