A 2‐Decade Appraisal of African Nursing Scholarship: 1986–2006

This paper is a description of a study about articles published about nursing in Africa from 1986 to 2006.An exhaustive database search of articles written by nurses or articles related to nursing in Africa was done. Access to the database was mainly via EBSCO (http://www.ebsco.com), which allowed searching seven electronic databases. These are major databases useful for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, repositories, and...