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Last Updated: Jun 24, 2022     Views: 77

The database CINAHL Complete (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) has two options to search for nurses as authors. Follow these instructions:

  1. Go to the Healey Library homepage
  2. Click on Databases from the menu on the left
  3. Select the letter "C" and scroll down to CINAHL Complete
  4. If you are off-campus, you will be prompted to enter your UMass Boston email and password
  5. This will take you to the Basic Search page.
  6. Go to the Advanced Search page. The link is located underneath the search box.
  7. The options for limiting to a nurse as an author are located under Limit Your Results.
  8. About halfway down the page are the options for: 
    1. Any Author is Nurse (on the left side of the page)
    2. First Author is Nurse (on the right side of page)
  9. Choose ONE of those options for your search.

Author is a Nurse