For our Career Interest Paper, when using CINAHL, we can limit our search to works written by authors who are nurses.
An author's educational credentials (e.g. RN, BSN, or MSN, PhD) can also appear in many different places for different journals. Places that credentials can be found includes, but is not limited to
Primary research articles (also called research articles) contain firsthand information or original data on a topic that is not interpreted, evaluated, or analyzed. These articles also include components or a variation of these components: Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion (known as the IMRaD format).
Primary research articles are usually peer-reviewed (i.e. article was critically evaluated by experts in the field before accepted for publication).