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A curation of nursing resources for students, faculty and staff
IMPORTANT: CINAHL IS CHANGING!

All EBSCOhost databases including CINAHL will move to the new search user interface on December 15, 2025. It will represent a new "look and feel" to the search page, as well as a new Dashboard area for your personal account.

Not all saved searches will migrate to the new CINAHL. Before December 15th, DOWNLOAD YOUR SAVED SEARCHES. Instructions and more info are on the New EBSCOhost User Interface guide.

 

 

Additional Nursing Subject Guides:
Nursing Clinical Practice Subject Guide: Go here for help learning about evidence-informed practice, finding skills & videos and information about licensure and certification.
Nursing Research Subject Guide: Go here to learn about knowledge synthesis, and help writing, citing, (including using APA style), and publishing.
Nursing Patient Education & Consumer Health Subject Guide: Go here for help finding or creating materials for patients.

 

Other guides of interest:

EndNote Essentials How-To Guide

Systematic Reviews, Scoping Reviews, and other Knowledge Syntheses

Health Sciences Literature Searching Basics

How to Search in the McGill Libraries Catalogue

View more guides HERE

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Combined evidence pyramid:
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Systems is the top level of the 6s pyramid. Example: evidence-based clinical information system. This level of the pyramid is grey on the image being described.
Summaries are the second level from the top of the 6s pyramid. Examples: practice guideline, evidence summary. This level of the pyramid is yellow on the image being described.
Synopses of syntheses are the third level from the top of the 6s pyramid. Example: pre-appraised systematic review. This level of the pyramid is pale red on the image being described.
Syntheses are the fourth level from the top of the 6s pyramid. Example: systematic review. This level of the pyramid is pink on the image being described.
Synopses of single studies are the second level from the bottom of the 6s pyramid. Example: pre-appraised single study. This level of the pyramid is blue on the image being described.
Single studies is the bottom level of the 6s pyramid. Example: randommized controlled trial, cohort study. This level of the pyramid is green on the image being described.

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