CINAHL Database

CINAHL Database

This page provides an overview of the CINAHL database, a trusted research tool for nursing and allied health professionals. You’ll learn how to navigate CINAHL, use advanced search features, and apply filters to locate peer-reviewed, evidence-based articles for your assignments and clinical practice. This resource will help you strengthen your research skills and support your work in healthcare-related fields and allow you to complete the Database Navigation Assignment and Digital Skills Quiz.

What is CINAHL?

The CINAHL database (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) is for nursing resources (books, articles, videos, etc.). 

Watch the video CINAHL Complete Database Tutorial for an overview.

Sort Through the Search Results

How do you make sense of these resources?

First look through the titles in your search results to see if they seem relevant to our topic. 

Next, scroll down the page to find the Abstract to learn more about what this article or source covers.

If this seems like a good source for, you can click on PDF Full Text or the article title to take you to the complete article in this database.

Attributions:

This content was adapted from a resource on Canvas Commons "Scholarly vs. Popular Sources" by Highline College and is licensed under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license unless otherwise noted. 

@EBSCOTutorials. (2023). CINAHL Databases - Basic Searching Tutorial [Video].