Page 1 : STEPS OF LITERATURE RE, E REVIEW, 109, , e Indian Journal of Nursing Studies, e International Journal of Nursing Care, ZG, , Names of international journals, , Nursing Research, , Research in Nursing and Health, Nursing Sciences Quarterly, , Western Journal of Nursing Research, Applied Nursing Research, , Biological Research for Nursing, Advances in Nursing Sciences, , Clinical Nursing Research, , Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, Journal of Qualitative Research, American Journal of Nursing, International Journal of Nursing Studies, Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, Evidence-Based Nursing, , Journal of Nursing Measurement, , e Journal of Nursing Scholarship, , e Oncology Nursing Forum, , e Scholarly Inquiry of Nursing Practice, Research reports, , Unpublished dissertations and theses, , e, , e, , e Magazines and newspapers, °, , e, , e, , e, e, e, e, °, e, e, e, °, e, e, e, e, e, , Conference papers and proceedings, Encyclopaedias and dictionaries, , Books, , STEPS OF LITERATURE REVIEW, , < ——, Literature review is a systemic and orderly process, which is undertaken for various reasons,, , such as a step of research process or eliciting the information for developing policies and, evidence-based practices. It is identified that nurses and nursing students found literature, review as a daunting task and frequently have many questions ranging from where to start,, how to select the themes, where to search the nursing literature, how to search the literature,, how many articles to include, how to synthesize and organize the literature, and how to, write the literature. Following discussion presents the steps of literature review in a research, process and answers many of the above-mentioned pertinent questions related to the meth, ods of literature review (Fig. 5.2):, , Step I. Understanding the concepts of research problem and identifying the key search, “ The journey of literature search begins with understanding and examining the, septs of research problem so that essential key search terms may be identified. The key, , terms serve as foundation for the overall search of literature. These search terms, , , , , , I. FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING RESEARCH