CINAHL stands for Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature.
Topics covered: In addition to nursing, covers allied health topics such as occupational therapy, physical therapy and rehabilitation, health promotion and education, home health, and much more.
Size: 2 million+ citations
Types of documents indexed: Mostly articles, but also Evidence-Based Care Sheets, books, dissertations and theses, conference proceedings, standards of practice, and more.
Date range: 1930s-present
Access: You can access CINAHL from this guide or the Databases page on the LHL Web site.
This 10-minute tutorial demonstrates how to select the best CINAHL Headings (subject terms) for your search and how to search CINAHL using those subject terms. (Note: This tutorial shows images from a slightly older version of the CINAHL interface, but the same features are available in the current version.)
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Watch this 5-minute tutorial on working with search results in CINAHL. Learn to email, save, print and export search results in the CINAHL database.
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For more information on using CINAHL, click the image below to access Lister Hill's guide (including tutorials) on CINAHL.
