Video Length: About 6 minutes (5:58)
CINAHL is a searchable database that indexes articles for over 1,300 nursing & allied health journals, including most of the ones permitted for your assignment. In this video, I demonstrate search tips and techniques for wording your topic, searching only allowed journals, applying relevant filters, and determining if any author is a nurse.
Video Length: About 6 minutes (5:54)
Nursing & Allied Health is a searchable database that indexes articles for over 690 nursing & allied health journals, including many of the ones permitted for your assignment. In this video, I demonstrate search tips and techniques for wording your topic, searching only allowed journals, applying relevant filters, and determining if any author is a nurse.
Tips for combining keywords
AND finds results mentioning all keywords.
Example: exercise AND endorphins
OR finds results mentioning either keyword.
Example: skin OR dermis OR epidermis
Parentheses () organize the search when combining AND and OR.
Example: ("fish oil" OR supplements) AND triglycerides
Quotation marks "" searches for an exact phrase.
Example: "polycystic ovary syndrome"
An asterisk * finds multiple endings for root words.
Example: cardi* will find: cardiac, cardio, cardiovascular, etc.