CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature)

Check out the new look of CINAHL Complete! In late May 2025, CINAHL and other EBSCOhost databases like SportDISCUS and APA PsycINFO, changed the searching interface. We will get you up to speed with the features to make this transition a breeze!

Nurses, allied health professionals, researchers, nurse educators and students depend on the CINAHL Database to research their subject areas from this authoritative index of nursing and allied health journals.

With CINAHL Complete, you get full-text access to top journals, and evidence-based care sheets across 50 nursing specialties, speech and language pathology, nutrition, general health and medicine and more. In addition, CINAHL provides access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, audiovisuals and book chapters.

CINAHL provides basic and advanced search features. CINAHL Headings, similar to PubMed’s MeSH terms, help users effectively search and retrieve information. [NOTE: We offer an online guide on this topic!]

By the end of this session, learners will be able to:

• use CINAHL Headings and keywords to construct a search
• apply CINAHL’s filters and limits to refine a search
• save searches and set up alerts for new research on their topic

* If you are unable to attend this class, please fill out this form to request a one-on-one consultation with a Librarian.