 This video will teach you how to search CINAHL. CINAHL is a database devoted to nursing and allied health topics and contains thousands of scholarly journal articles that you can use in your research papers and projects. Unlike Google, which lets you use complete sentences, CINAHL requires that you use specific keywords to search the collection. For more information on creating keywords, see the link in the video description. Under the search boxes, you will also see a number of search options and limiters. These will ensure that you only get the results that are most useful for your research. I like limiting by full text, which means that I will only get articles that I can read right away. In the health sciences, it's also very important that you use the most current research within your field. Most classes require that your articles are written with in the last five years, which I can specify by using the publish date limiter. As we scroll down, we'll also see other limiters that will ensure that our articles are peer reviewed, published in a specific geographic region, and about specific populations. You can even limit to only those articles written by a nurse if you're looking for an article specific to nursing practice. If you're not sure how specific you'd like to get on this page, you can always add more limiters once you've done a broad search. I'd like to find articles about stroke care for nurses, so I'll start by putting the word stroke and nursing in individual search boxes. I'm deliberately using broad keywords so we can see what results we can get. Now let's click on full text and limit to peer reviewed articles published within the last five years. I'm also going to indicate that I want articles written by a nurse. Once I hit search, I'm brought to my results list. This search gave me about 96 articles, which is a great, narrow search to start looking through. You will see each of your limiters on the left-hand side, and you can always click on the gray X if you'd like to remove one. You will also see more ways to limit your results below. For example, I can click on subject major heading if I'd like to limit my results to a more specific topic, like neuroscience nursing. You can also limit by age group, gender of patient, or location of research. Since most nursing courses require that you use American journals, I'll click on USA to see the 57 results written from a United States perspective. Now I can start to review my results. I'm interested in article number five. To find out more information about this article, I can click on the blue title. This page includes information about the authors, keywords that describe the subject matter of the article, and an abstract if the abstract seems to be relevant to my research. I can click on the link on the left-hand side that says full text finder or PDF full text to read the entire article. If you don't see either of these links, it might mean that you have forgotten to use your full text limiter, but don't worry. You can request the article by clicking on the request link on the left-hand side. It will just take several days to fulfill the request. If you think the article would be useful for your research, you can email a full copy to yourself by using the email link on the right-hand side. The best part about finding articles from the databases is that they'll also create an APA citation for you, which you can also send with the full text of the article. Just make sure you select APA under citation format. You can also click on the site button on the right-hand side to see that APA citation. One word of warning. Even though these citations are usually great, they are automatically generated by the databases, so there might be several errors. See the APA video in the video description for more information on how to use the APA lib guide to double-check your citations. Finally, you can make use of the subject keywords on the article information page to find other articles. For example, I love the keyword stroke prevention and control as it's much more specific than my original search. When I click on that link, I'm brought to more articles about that subject. Now I just have to re-add nursing into my second search box and limit using the options on the left-hand side. Remember, librarians are always happy to assist if you have any trouble with any step of the research process. Check out irsee.libguides.com slash Ask a Librarian for more information on how to connect with us about your research needs.