Choose a topic related to health that has meaning to your personal health, interests, and well-being. This may be a disease, such as diabetes, or a healthy fitness activity.

Conduct a database search comparing one of the following database directories with Google Scholar.

• CINAHL and Google Scholar
• PubMed and Google Scholar
• CINHAL and PubMed

Explain how you were able to narrow down the number of article hits you had initially, and present within your post a summary of the credible article you chose as your resource. How do you know your article choice is credible? Which database do you prefer and why?

How will using a database search facilitate your:

• scholarly work;
• nursing work (evidence-based practice); and
• personal self-development?

SOLUTION 

It is very important for people in the medical field to easily have access to credible resources. Although it may not be that easy to find such credible sources, which makes it more important that we know how to use a database search that is filled with just credible sources. Between CINAHL and Google Scholar, CINAHL was able to limit the results to just the ones that meet scholarly standards that were searched for. In this session, we started mental health and schizophrenia is what I will be doing my RUA on so this discussion is a good start of my research. Using CINAHL, I searched up “schizophrenia” there were 35,935 initial articles, obviously, that is way too many so I filtered them by selecting articles just years 2015- 2020…please click the purchase button to access the entire solution at $5