LibGuides: CINAHL Information: Information About CINAHL

What is CINAHL Plus with Full Text?

Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature

Electronic version of the red books

CINAHL Basic Searching (video)
CINAHL Basic Searching (alternate link) Try this link if the above link doesn't work for you.
CINAHL Advanced Searching (video)
CINAHL Advanced Searching (alternate link) Try this link if the above link doesn't work for you.
Using CINAHL and MeSH Subject Headings (video)
Using CINAHL and MeSH Subject Headings (alternate link) Try this link if the above link doesn't work for you.
How to Create an MyEBSCOhost Account (text)
How to Use Journal Alerts (text) Teaches you the set up that will alert you so you can view the table of contents of a new issue of a journal(s) you want to follow.
How to Use Search Alerts (text) Teaches you how to create a scheduled, automatically- run topical search in CINAHL. This would let you know about brand new articles that have been published on a topic of ongoing interest to you. Search results would be delivered to your Inbox according to your chosen schedule.
How to Use the My EBSCOhost Folder (text) Very important and convenient for people running lengthy searches and/or projects that extend over many days or weeks
Series of brief CINAHL video tutorials (from Yale) Most are under 5 minutes. Scroll down to see the entire list of videos.

FInding Peer Reviewed Articles

Peform a search on your topic then choose the limit: peer review -or- choose journal subset: peer reviewed.

Articles on the Peer-Review Process

Guerrieri, R. (2012). What's a peer-reviewed journal?. Nursing, 42(5), 46-49. doi:10.1097/0I.NURSE.O000413612.44307.66

Miracle, V. (2008). The peer review process. Dimensions Of Critical Care Nursing, 27(2), 67-69.

Finding Research Articles

Perform a search on your topic, click on Search History, click Edit, put a check mark under Research Article on the Edit Search page

Finding Research Instruments

Perform a search on your topic, click on Search History, click Edit, under Publication Type choose research instrument.

Finding Articles with CEU's

Perform a search on your topic. In the left-hand sidebar, place a check mark in the CEU box under Source Types.

Finding CINAHL CEU Modules

Click on New Search
Under Search Options, tick in the CE module box under limits; hit search. All the journal CEU modules will be retrieved. Click on the underscored CEU module title; not the PDF. Alzheimer's isease--CE Module
This will take you to the CINAHL education screen. Follow instructions from there.
For more information and step by step, click here.

Evidence Based Care Sheets are...

Summaries on specific diseases andconditions
Ranked with a coding matrix at tthe bottom of the each article.
Includes a What we Know section, What We Can Do section (nursing oriented) , and References

Access the Evidence Based Care Sheets via the blue menu bar in CINAHL PLUS with full text.

Type a disease or condition in the browse box or browse the list alphabetically.
Select a disease or condition and click on the search box
Open your PDF

Overview of Nursing topics

Access the Quick Lesons via MORE pull down menu the blue menu bar in CINAHL PLUS with full text.