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CINAHL Complete is a large collection of scholarly articles, conference proceedings, and dissertations on topics ranging from nursing to public health and medical administration.

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CINAHL Complete is a large collection of scholarly articles, conference proceedings, and dissertations on topics ranging from nursing to public health and medical administration.

Review the interactive tutorial below for steps on how to search within the CINAHL Complete database.

Click the purple "Next" button to progress through the slides.


CINAHL Complete is a large collection of scholarly articles, conference proceedings, and dissertations on topics ranging from nursing to public health and medical administration.

Review or download the tutorial below for steps on how to search within the CINAHL Complete database.


1. Go to https://library.usu.edu/ and click on the Articles and Databases link under "Find."

USU library website with highlight over articles and databases link

2. To quickly find CINAHL Complete, search for it in the search box or click "C."

articles and databases homepage with highlight over letter c

3. Click on the "CINAHL Complete" link.

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4. This will bring you to the advanced search for the CINAHL Complete database.

CINAHL Complete database homepage with search boxes


Do not type in your entire research question, break it down into keywords and enter them into the search bars.


5. Common keywords may populate from a dropdown menu once you begin to type. This can be helpful but make sure they are what you're looking for.

keyword examples in database search boxes

6. When you're done entering in your keywords, click "Search."

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7. Scroll through the results page until you find a resource you're interested in viewing.

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Tip: Clicking on a resource will take you to it's detail page. Here you can see information like title, abstract, publisher, authors, and various other important information.


8. Here is where you can also access the full resource. Clicking "Access Now (PDF)" or "Download" will take you to the full-text of the resource.

highlight over access now option in an article detail page

9. This is an example of accessing an article.

article introduction page

10. You can use filters to narrow your results further. To do so, click "All filters (0)."

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11. Choose which filters work for your scope of research and then click "Apply."

highlight over filtering by dates feature

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