 Hello, my name is Lauren Bryant. I'm a librarian at Shoreline Community College and I'm going to talk to you about using CINAHL for nursing research. You're going to go to the library's website which is library.shoreline.edu and then you're going to choose databases out of this menu that says research. From this menu to jump directly to CINAHL we're going to click C and then the second thing in this list is CINAHL. I want to point out that the Absco databases, the Absco is the vendor or the people who sell us the databases, they look very similar so make sure that this says CINAHL with full text right here because you can choose databases and show and I'm going to show you how this one looks almost the exact same but this word this one says academic search complete where it says searching. So we're going to make sure we're searching CINAHL and then for my example I'm going to do urinary tract infections. The reason I use this as my example is because there are so many different ways of saying urinary tract infections which is common in the health sciences. I used a keyword search that's the one we just did we just did a keyword search now I'm going to show you subject headings. So in this detailed record there will often be an area that says major subjects and it will tell you what the major subjects are of this article. I see urinary tract infections as a subject heading. So our results list was 16,977 when I put urinary tract infections. If I click the subject heading it will give me 6,784 which is good. We actually want less things because we don't want to have to sort through articles that are not on our topic. So when we get this number of articles I want to reduce them down even more because I want to at least glance at the summary for each article. So I know that I want for nursing we definitely don't want very very old articles. I put 2019 to 2023 I also I want to click this box this is full text if you don't click that you will get some what are called abstracts or detailed summaries which is what you get when you don't get to read the full article you just get to see what the article is about and sometimes you do want those if you find absolutely nothing on your topic you can look at the detailed record and then you can submit an interlibrary loan through the library and we'll send you a pdf of the article. I want to click academic articles academic journals because I don't want to use magazines for my nursing research and then I get 358 items 358 full text items from 2019 to 2023. Now that I have this I'm going to research urinary tract infections and cranberry juice or cranberry extract or cranberry tablets or whatever it is so I'm going to add cranberry here. I'm adding it to that second field below and I wanted to double check it it unchecked my box for academic journals so I'm going to recheck that but I got six total results and these results are going to be very specific to my topic they're going to be recent and they're going to be easy to sort through because I only have six. Once you see an article that you think you want to use you click it and then you might have to click see how I scroll down and there's no article here you might have to click this red icon that says pdf full text you'll click that and it will give you the full text of the article in kind of a little window here if you want to save this article you can't take the url from your browser bar because it's behind a paywall you can click this little chain link icon and then it will a little permalink will pop up and this link is what you want to use when you're sending your instructor an article if you're citing an article if you're sending somebody in your group an article you want to use this link right here this permalink if you want to create a citation this yellow box on the side will generate citations in a lot of different styles now for your research you will want APA 7 if you have any questions know that the library is there for you we have a chat that's available 24-7 we also have appointments that you can make at library.shoreline.edu slash appointments and you can make one-on-one appointments where we can search for articles with you over zoom and of course come please come visit us in person we love hearing from our nurses thank you for watching