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CINAHL Database Guide

  • Getting Started
    • What is CINAHL® Complete?
    • Accessing CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
    • CINAHL Tutorial (Well worth a few minutes!)
  • CINAHL Subject Headings
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  • Refining Results
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What is CINAHL® Complete?

CINAHL® Complete is a powerful health database with article references from over 3,900 journals dating back to 1937. Students can search over 1,000,000 articles related to: 

  • Nursing
  • Allied Health
  • Alternative Therapies
  • Biomedicine
  • Health Administration
  • Consumer Health and more

CINAHL also contains the full text of more than 750 journals, instantly available at the click of a mouse.

CINAHL offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, educational software and audivisuals, as well as evidence-based care sheets.

View the tabs above for help searching CINAHL and instructions on saving, printing, emailing and citing articles.

Contact the Library Reference Desk (677-2603) with any questions you may have. We're here to help you!

Accessing CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)

To access CINAHL from the library home page: select  Article Databases → Nursing. CINAHL appears near the top of the list of linked databases.  Or access CINAHL here.
 
*If off campus, you must authenticate with your IWU username and password..

CINAHL Tutorial (Well worth a few minutes!)

Click play and then enlarge the screen by clicking the box in the lower right corner.

  • Next: CINAHL Subject Headings >>

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