Basic & Advanced Searching

You can discover NRC Plus's available resources by either doing a Basic search or an Advanced search, or you can simply browse through the NRC Plus toolbar tabs.

Basic Search

From the Home Page, use the Find box to search for terms.

After entering your term, click Search, and a list of results will be pulled up.

Your results are organized by sources type: Basic Search, Diseases & Conditions, Skills & Procedures, Drug Information, etc. Click on the different tabs to view a different source type.

You can also narrow down your result list by using limiters in the Narrow Results by section.

For additional information on doing a basic search in Nursing Reference Center, visit this web page.

Advanced Search

From the Home page, click on Advanced Search in the top left corner.

From the Advanced Search page, enter your search term(s) and limit your results by specifying document types, requesting full text, selecting a time frame for when published, etc.

After selecting your desired limiters, click Search, and your list of narrowed-down results will appear. Results can continue to be narrowed down selecting limiters in the Narrow Results by section.

For additional information on doing an advanced search in Nursing Reference Center, visit this web page.