Research Guides: CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature: Home

Getting Started
Review a basic searching video and instruction handouts with tips on using CINAHL.
Advanced Searching
Review a video on how to conduct advanced searches with CINAHL by using CINAHL headings and multiple search fields.
Managing Your Results
Find full text, learn how to e-mail, print, and save citations from CINAHL.
Evidence Based Practice
Learn how to limit results to find high level evidence to support your research and medical practices.
Continuing Education
More information on how to access and gain CE and CEU credit in nursing.
Citing Tips
CINAHL offers a citation tool that formats citation information from several popular citation styles, including APA.
Hedges
Hedges are standardized search strategies that can be used to help retrieve relevant articles. This page will help you understand how to use them in a search to get more relevant results.

CINAHL

CINAHL is the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature database. There are over 5,500 nursing and allied health journals, evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons, CEs, books, dissertations, conference proceedings, standards of practice, software, and more indexed in this resource.

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