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Nursing: Evidence-Based Care Sheets

Evidence-Based Care Sheets (CINAHL)

CINAHL Plus with Full Text  provides nearly 150 Evidence-Based Care Sheets, which are designed to give a "general informational overview of the subject for the healthcare professional" on a variety of topics. Most are two pages long, and include information on "What We Know" and "What We Can Do," supported by a list of References for further information.

While the Evidence-Based Care Sheets are written, edited, and reviewed by RNs and MDs, they are published by CINAHL Information Systems, so they are not considered journal articles. Use these for background information and helpful references.

 

You can view these helpful summaries by clicking on Evidence-Based Care Sheets at the top left of the CINAHL screen:

Image of EBSCOhost CINAHL Plus with Full-Text homescreen with an arrow pointing to the Evidence-Based Care Sheets link at the top left of the page.

 

Then you'll see a screen where you can either browse for a topic alphabetically, or search for a topic using the search box:

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You can view the Evidence-Based Care Sheets by checking one or more topic checkboxes, and then clicking Search at the top of the list:

Screenshot of evidence-based care sheets index with arrows pointing to the button to click to select an item and the search button.

 Once you hit Search, you'll see a page with all the Sheets you selected:

Screenshot of a search results page in CINAHL's evidence-based case sheets interface highlighting the access options.

 

To read the document, open the link to the PDF Full Text. From the PDF, you can print, save, or email the document to yourself:

Screenshot of an evidence-based care sheet with print, save, export, and citation options highlighted.

Questions?

If you have questions, contact Renae Stucky