Literature searching: Ovid Nursing

• Small bibliographic database of nursing literature
• Years of coverage: 1946 to present.

Note:

• There can be formatting issues with exporting records to Endnote
• Content appears to be a duplicate of other databases such as Medline, Ovid Emcare and CINAHL

• Use the same method as searching Ovid Medline - combining subject headings and textwords
• Subject headings will appear slightly different (Ovid Nursing uses a different set of terms)
• Simple search syntax (commands) such as .ti,ab are exactly the same

Translating a search from Ovid Medline to Ovid Nursing

• Use your Ovid Medline search strategy as a cheat sheet.
• The layout of Ovid Nursing is very similar to Medline, except the subject headings are different
• SEARCH FOR DATABASE SPECIFIC SUBJECT HEADINGS (this is the main difference - subject headings in Medline and Ovid Nursing are very different)
• Textword search lines will be the same, as long as you have kept to title and abstract fields - you can copy and paste these in
• The way you group concepts will be the same