Nursing

This Research Guide is designed to aid students in using Iona University Library resources to complete projects and assignments for the Nursing program and includes articles in databases and journals.

View the department's website and find information about course offerings, program faculty, curriculum requirements, etc.

Sample Literature Reviews

Walton, A. L., & Rogers, B. (2017). Workplace hazards faced by nursing assistants in the United States: A focused literature review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(5), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14050544

Hayes, L. J., O’Brien-Pallas, L., Duffield, C., Shamian, J., Buchanan, J., Hughes, F., Spence Laschinger, H. K., North, N., & Stone, P. W., (2006). Nurse turnover: A literature review. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 4(2), 237-263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2005.02.007

Google Scholar (www.scholar.google.com) allows you to search for relevant scholarly information across many disciplines and sources.

If you search Google Scholar on-campus, you will be automatically linked to full-text articles which are in the Library databases. From off-campus, you must link to Iona University Library Databases from Google Scholar.

Instructions for linking to Iona University Library Databases from Google Scholar

• Go to Settings (three bars on top left of the page)
• Click on Library Links
• Type in Iona University

How do Google Scholar Library Links work?

When you search Google Scholar, you'll see Find full-text @ Iona links in the results. Sometimes these links will appear to the right of the result, and other times the links will be hidden at the bottom of the result -- to unhide (or expand), click the double arrows.

You still need to log in (authenticate) with your Iona user id and password after clicking Find full-text @ Iona. Full text is not guaranteed. Iona full-text holdings are constantly being updated, and sometimes Google's inventory of our catalog may not be in sync. If an article isn't available full-text, please request via ILL.

To configure exporting citations from Google Scholar to Refworks

• Go to Settings (three bars on top left of the page).
• Locate the Bibliography Manager
• Select RefWorks from the drop-down menu next to Show links to import citations into.
• Click on Save.
• When you locate an article that you would like to export to RefWorks, click on Cite and select RefWorks to export. 

More about Google Scholar:

Click on the double rights arrows (>>) to see all the access options. 

• Full view = Takes you directly to the full-text of the article in a library database or publisher web site
• Library Search = Searches the Iona Library Catalog for the book titles, this option will not appear for articles  
• Find Full Text@ Iona = Takes you to full-text citation finders where it will direct you to an ILL form or the full-text
• Cached = Refers to old snapshots of articles that Google has indexed
• All Versions = Shows different formats (preprint, journal, repository) of the same academic work
• Cited by = Articles Referencing the original 

The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) -  In their Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals, Section 4 under  Defining the Role of Authors and Contributors addresses the use of AI in submitted work. 

COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) statement on Authorship and AI tools. 

World Association of Medical Editors - Recommendations on ChatGPT and Chatbots in Relation to Scholarly Publications

Flanagin A, Bibbins-Domingo K, Berkwits M, Christiansen SL. Nonhuman “Authors” and Implications for the Integrity of Scientific Publication and Medical Knowledge. JAMA. 2023;329(8):637–639. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2023.1344