Nursing and Allied Health: Cinahl Videos and Search Tips

 

Https://library.nsula.edu

 

 

• Open the Database Directory
• Click on "Nursing and Allied Health". 

 

 

You may try several methods before you develop a method that is right for you. These databases contain articles appropriate for Nursing & Allied Health. 

• CINAHL Complete with Full-Text
• Proquest Nursing & Allied Health Premium
• PubMed
• OVID
• SAGE Journals
• Wiley Journals
• Science Direct
• AltHealthWatch
• PsychInfo  (Psychiatric Nursing and Drug Treatment)
• Lexis UNI (Medical Law or Legal articles)
• Academic Search Complete (Business, Insurance and other topics related to Healthcare and Healthcare Mgt.)

 

 

• Full Text Finder is located in a large purple box at the top of the Watson Library page
• Use the Full Text Finder feature on the library home page to search specific journal titles

 

• CINAHL contains 5,400 journals
• Many articles within the CINAHL Complete database are full text. 
• Bibliographic records that contain abstracts only (not full text) can be requested through  Nursing Interlibrary Loan. 

 

 

• New Search (To begin a new search)
• CINAHL Journal Publisher List
• CINAHL Subject Headings (based on MeSH)
• Evidence Based Care Sheets (Care Plans)
• Quick Lessons (Topical Overviews)

 

 

• The SEARCH BAR is usually at the top of the search page
• If you place a term in the search bar and click search, the CINAHL Headings will appear (similar to MeSH headings)
• You may also search a specific field such as Author or Title.
• 20 fields are available and correspond to fields in PubMed

 

 

• FILTERS (limiters) are located on the left side of the results page
• Filters are also located on the Advanced Search page (link is under date slider bar)
• Each database has a slightly different layout for other post search features.

 

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• Title
• Author
• Bibliographic Information
• Abstract
• CINAHL / MeSH Subject Headings*

 

 

• Patient population:  Pediatric or child or children or childhood
• Ages:  0 years  - 18 years
• Infants: Yes / No ?
• Problem:  Obesity, Diabetes
• Treatment or Therapy:: Diet OR Diet Therapy
• US or Worldwide
• Language?

• Enter the primary term: obesity.  Click search.  This will bring up the subject heading menu.
• CINAHL headings are much like MeSH headings in PubMed
• This is a very defined method of searching and your results will be very focused (targeted). 
• Not like Google.  Google returns articles based on relevancy ranking.  CINAHL returns articles with focused subject headings.

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• The most current journal year is normally under embargo.  Embargo means it is not yet available in the databases.  Many instructors and professors are not aware of embargo rules.
• Limit your date range to the last 6 years.
• Limit your date range to Peer Reviewed journals only.
• You may limit your publication type to academic journals as opposed to nursing magazines or nursing newsletters.

 

 

• Click on Major Topic and the subheadings menu appears (blue)
• Select appropriate subheadings or click search

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In the above slide, we selected pediatric obesity AND we marked the boxes for Diet Therapy/DT and Nursing/NU. Then we mark majorheadings and click the green search button.

 

• Before applying all filters (or limiters), we test our search using only the date filter.
• Move the date slider bar to 2015 (or 6 years prior to the current date. The current year is under embargo.
• Under the date slider bar is a link to the advanced search filters
• These are the minimum filters:  References available, ENGLISH, Peer Reviewed, Apply related words (set by default), apply equivalent subjects, Geography: US, Language: English, search within the full text of articles, peer reviewed
• Applying too many filters may produce too few results. 
• We can add most filters later. The exception is the Peer Review Filter

 

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• Open Search History and combine terms before reviewing results
• Search each term individually.  The database saves your queries in SEARCH  HISTORY

 

 

• Each Query is numbered (S1, S2, S3...etc.)
• Combine your searches with AND, OR, OR NOT (Boolean Operators)
• AND - finds terms present in both articles (intersection)
• OR - Finds terms in either article
• NOT - Eliminates articles containing specific terms such as (clinical trials, randomized control trials, Cochrane, Study, etc.)  There is no check box for NOT. 
• After combining terms, view your results.

• Select DETAILED VIEW
• Show the most recent records first.

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• Click on folder; Click on sign in from the purple bar on the results page.
• Create your CINAHL special account and sign in. You are able to save searches, create alerts and save articles to your folders.
• Your account is active for 9 months; then all data is purged
• If you are working on a special project or thesis, you must download all articles from your folder and export all citations to Mendeley Citation Manager or Rayyan before the account expires.

• Create a  folder
• Name the folder: Pediatric Obesity / Diet Therapy
• Articles will be saved until you delete them
• Select and email multiple articles with citations to yourself in one step
• Prevents losing your work if you close the browser accidentally or use the browser back button instead of navigating within CINAHL.

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• Most students have several Nursing or Allied Health courses.  Each class has research assignments. Organize your research by folder.
• Sign in to your CINAHL Special Account
• Create folder / Name folder / SAVE folder
• Go to your RESULT SET using the button to the right of the NSU Logo in CINAHL Complete
• Select articles and click on the folder to the right of the article.  Your newest folder will be at the bottom of the list: SELECT FOLDER
• The folder icon changes from blue to gold

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• Click New Search
• Click Search History
• Click View Results

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• Place your results into the saved folder one by one. Select folder and click the blue folder icon.
• Set page results to 50 (Page Options)
• Share Add to Folder (Results 1-50)
• More than 50? Go to page 2 and repeat

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• Cite Link:  Use the APA Citation format within Nursing and Allied health. Select the APA Citation and copy-paste into a word document or an Interlibrary Loan white space for further parcing..
• APA Citation LibGuide shows examples of journal and non-journal citations.
• Cite an interview, a nursing standard or a web page for your report. 

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Other options include listening to the article.  You might try listen to an article while preparing dinner or exercising.  There is a table of contents along with the article transcript.  The transcript shows an outline and major talking points within the article.

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• Table of Contents is not available for all articles
• Use the Jump Links to access specific points within the article, such as the conclusiom. 
• This is  great for note taking.

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• email the article to yourself
• share the article / articles with your project team.
• In the folder view, Click on the folder; Click on articles
• Select articles to share with your team mates
• Email to the team: Separate email addresses with a comma and add a subject line.
• Email the APA Citation with the articles (1 step)

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• Some articles are available in full text. 
• Use the Nursing ILL Link from the main ILL page for articles that are not full text. 
• Ms. Rufty receives and fills articles requested within 1-3 business days
• If you request an article after hours, it is processed the next business day if the day unless it is an Official University Holiday. 
• If you request the article after the library closes at 12:00 on Friday, the request will be processed on Monday.

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Thank you!