
Searching CINAHL
Why an online session?
It will guide you through the basic steps of a CINAHL search. CINAHL stands for Cumulated Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, and helps you find journal articles on nursing subjects. The principles of database searching are explained on the Finding Information pages. This session will give you some practice!
Aims of this course
You will learn how to:
- log on to the CINAHL server and carry out a basic search to help you with your assignment
- enter and refine your keywords to get more accurate results
- process the search results to obtain them in the format best suited to your needs.
By the end you should feel confident about searching by yourself. The course should take less than an hour to complete. Move through the course by using the navigation symbols at the foot of the page, moves you on to the next page,
takes you back to the previous page and
takes you to the start of the unit.
SMILE - CINAHL online tutorial by Marion Kelt, GCU - images used by permission of EBSCO is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.