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Nursing & Health Sciences Research Guide

A comprehensive research guide for nursing and the allied health fields of study.

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Why use CINAHL Plus with Full Text?

It is the world's most comprehensive database in the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health, and 17 allied health discipline (more subject headings). Provides citations and some full text for 4500 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. Also contains searchable cited references for more than 1340 journals and provides full text for hundreds of journals, evidenced-based care sheets (example), author affiliations, quick lessons & search strategies (example), health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.

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