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Nursing Resources

A research guide on Nursing resources for ESU students and faculty.

CINAHL

CINAHL Complete is a comprehensive nursing & allied health research database with:

  • Full text of journal articles for nearly 1,400 journals
  • Indexed abstracts for more than 5,400 journals (that means no full text, but you can request articles through Interlibrary Loan)
  • Includes some health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. 

Click the tabs above to learn about searching CINAHL.

Go to CINAHL Complete and click on Advanced Search to see more search options.

CINAHL - Click on Advanced Search

 

In the Advanced Search, you will see 3 search boxes near the top and many options to Limit Your Results further down the page. Review your assignment guidelines and select what you need. 

Limit your results options include:

1)  Select Full Text only if you need the article right now (i.e. today or by tomorrow). 

Keep in mind: If you limit to full text all the time, you could potentially eliminate useful articles, which you could otherwise request through interlibrary loan and get it typically within a few days. 

2) Limit by Publication Date. Most nursing professors may want you to limit the search to the last 5 years. Type 2013 in the first year box and 2018 in the second. Tip: The month doesn't really matter.

3) Check off Peer Reviewed to limit results to peer reviewed journals only. 

Learn more about it on the Peer Reviewed Journal Articles page on the left.

CINAHL Limit your results by Full Text and Peer Reviewed

 

Publication date options on CINAHL

 

Explore many the Advanced Search options!