Nursing Theory

Searching for articles in CINAHL

Using CINAHL

• CINAHL - Cumulative index to nursing & allied health literature is a great database to search for Nursing theory

How?

• CINAHL is accessible from the Library home page under Journal Articles. It is listed alphabetically and by subject under Nursing.

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• Type in nursing theory in the search box• Ensure that the box next to Suggest Subject

Term is checked off• Click on the Search button

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Click on Search

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You will now see a series of suggested terms.

To view models of nursing theory, click on the Nursing Theory link

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Click on Nursing Models Theoretical

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You will now see a list of different nursing models

Simply click on the box next to any model

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Let’s select Newman Health Model

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Note that once we have selected a model, a list of subheadings appears and we can search for articles on our model by clicking on the green Search Database button

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We now have 160 results.

We can limit this search by date, type of publication, peer reviewed, etc.

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How?

Click on the Show More link under the date slider

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Click on the box next to Peer Reviewed

And type in your range of dates next to Published Date from

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We now have 14 results.

To check if the article is available, click on the icon

Let’s click on article #1

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This opens a new window.

Note that the article is available as an ejournal

To read it click on the link