CINAHL Database Guide

CINAHL 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 audiovisuals, as well as evidence-based care sheets.

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

Click the link below to search the Cinahl database.

To access CINAHL from myUNW>Library link: select Databases & Articles → Nursing. CINAHL appears near the top of the list of linked databases.

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