Welcome to the Hoffman Family Library research guide for the CINAHL (Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health) database.
A few things to keep in mind about this guide:
Content: EBSCO’s nursing database covering biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health, and allied health disciplines.
Purpose: Database for research in nursing, medicine, and consumer health.
Special Features: Strong qualitative studies. Filter studies by nurse as author, evidence-based practice, and type of study. Includes MESH indexing, PICO search functionality, text-to-speech feature for some articles, and a tool for discovering citing articles.
CINAHL Complete is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals.
Additional materials include more than 130 Evidence-Based Care Sheets and nearly 170 Quick Lessons which provide concise overviews of diseases and conditions and outline the most effective treatment options.
Why use CINAHL?
1. Results are automatically limited to nursing-related resources
2. Fewer results to skim through when compared to searching the open web
3. Built-in tools that help you narrow your search results