Transcript Medical Templates 2003 - Indiana Wesleyan University

CINAHL – Part 2
Cumulative Index to Nursing and
Allied Health Literature
A search scenario:
• Let’s say you are interested in researching
teaching methods for nontraditional
education.
• The topics to pull out and find “CINAHL
headings” for are as follows:
– Nontraditional education
– Teaching methods
Let’s use the CINAHL headings to get our
search results.
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Database searching disclaimer
• The numbers of articles are always
changing as these databases are updated
regularly. When you try the steps on your
computer the number of citations will most
likely be different.
• The numbers can even vary when two
people are trying to recreate the exact
same search.
• That is OK! It does not mean you did
anything wrong!
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Check mark, Suggest Subject Terms. Type your
first term in the first row box. Click on, Search
Education, NonTraditional, is a good
option. Sometimes there
are multiple options and
all can be check marked.
Sometimes clicking on
Next, will allow you to
view more options. For
this search we’ll just use
one.
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Using CINAHL Headings
• Go to the far right and click on the Green
bar, Search Database.
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Repeat the same steps for the
2nd term, Teaching methods.
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Your last search is already in the 1st
search box. Check mark the results
for the first search you did; click
Search with AND.
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Your search results of focused articles
on your 2 topics! You might want to add
a 3rd search term.
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Another way to get to the
CINAHL Headings
• Click on Search Database like
before.
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As before,
leave the
last search
in the
search box;
check mark
the last
search
results and
click on
Search with
AND
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You have 54 focused articles on
nontraditional education, teaching
methods and baccalaureate nurses.
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You can limit further to only
research-based articles
• Click on the Show More
• Scroll down and check mark,
Research Article.
Click on Search,
again.
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Your original search had 808 possibilities. Adding the 3rd
term and limiting to Research Articles brings this down
to 20. If you are trying this search your results could be
different. These databases are regularly updated.
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Probably limiting to research articles
will ensure that most are peerreviewed, but to be sure, you can
also limit to Peer-reviewed. Click on
Show More again and check mark
Peer Reviewed.
Now you are
down to 16!
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When viewing the list of citations you can
view the abstract of each citation, too.
• Click:
Preferences,
from the blue
toolbar
• Bullet: Detailed;
Click: Save.
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The abstract helps you to know if you want
to pursue obtaining the entire article.
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Clicking on Add to folder, places the wanted items in a
Folder that you can then print out, email or save.
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Sometimes you may see a dissertation in
your result list.
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Copy and paste the title or the author and
search for the dissertation in Dissertations
& Theses, another IWU database. Many of
these are available in their entirety.
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In summary…
• Use CINAHL for in depth information on
nursing topics.
• Use the CINAHL Headings to get the right
subject headings for your topics. This will
get the most relevant hits.
• Use Boolean searching to combine terms
and narrow your search results.
• Mark the citations you want to use and
save them for future reference.
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In summary…
• If you don’t find a CINAHL Headings term that
matches your concept, then do a keyword search
using “” marks around your words so they appear
together in the citation.
• This will assure that the words are all found
together.
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If you find the “perfect” citation,
then look to see what subject
headings were used to search
further using CINAHL headings.
Click on the title link to see the full
citation.
You can click on the subject heading to go to more
articles about Semi-Structured Interview.
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In the next tutorial, we’ll…
• Look at how to get the full text of CINAHL
citations.
• Learn how to access Digital Dissertations
• Learn how to access ProQuest Nursing
Journals
• Learn how to access EBSCO Health Source:
Nursing/Academic
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