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CINAHL Tutorials: Searching CINAHL

CINAHL -Basic Searching

Additional Search Features- CINAHL

Select the Advanced Search link (under the search box)  for additional search limiters:

  •  Articles written by nurses
    • First Author is Nurse – If this limiter is applied, then you will only retrieve records where it is confirmed that the first author of an article is a nurse, according to credentials noted in the article.
    •   Any Author is Nurse
    • Always check author credentials listed in article to verify author has nursing credentials.
    • for more information see http://libguides.southalabama.edu/nurseauthor
  • Limit searches to evidence based practice
  • Limit searches by patient criteria such as human, age groups or gender
  • Limit to Clinical Queries
    •  Clinical Queries are specific search strategies (“hedges”) that can be applied to retrieve clinically relevant and scientifically-sound results from the CINAHL® databases. (For more information  see CINAHL Clinical Queries)

 

Using the CINAHL/MeSH Subject Headings Feature

CINAHL - Advanced Searching

PICO(T) Searches

The PICO Search Link is under the search box.

PICO search link is inder the search box

Evidence-Based Care Sheets and Quick Lessons in CINAHL

 

Evidence-Based Care Sheets (EBCS) are summaries on specific key topics, which are focused on nursing practice. Each evidence-based care sheet incorporates the latest evidence, statistics, research and references on a given topic. The references are ranked, using a coding matrix, according to the type of literature they represent (systematic reviews, meta-analysis, etc).  You can browse the list of Evidence-Based Care Sheets from the toolbar at the top of the  Search page.

 

Quick Lessons (QL) are clinically organized nursing overviews, with information mapped to the nursing workflow (i.e. description/etiology, signs and symptoms, assessment, treatment goals, red flags, what to tell the patient/patient’s family). You can browse the list of Quick Lessons from the toolbar at the top of the search page.

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