Nursing Guide

Keeping up to day in the field of nursing is essential. This list of library resources is intended to aid you in your search for information found in the nursing/medical/health literature. Need additional help, consult the librarians at the Reference Desk on the second floor.

ABI/Inform Global
Indexes over 18,000 worldwide business periodicals for information on advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finances, taxation and computers. You may also find facts on over 60,000+ companies. See ProQuest for a full description. Proquest will help with creating a bibliography and citing the bibliography in one of several styles. Tutorial Available.

Blackwell Synergy
Full-text collection of over 1 million articles from 850 journals. Journals are categorized by subject and nursing students have four subject areas which would be useful to them: Health Sciences, Medicine, Social and Behavioral Sciences and Law and Criminology. Advanced option allows searching in those journals with full subscription access rights. Where there is not full subscription access rights, the users see an abstract of the article. The user may purchase the article from Blackwell Synergy or use more cost effective InterLibrary Loan (ILL).

CINAHL with Full Text (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
Contains citations to articles published in more than 1,200 journals. There are some full-text articles. CINAHL indexes selected books, book chapters, pamphlets, pamphlet chapters, dissertations and masters’ theses, audiovisuals, and software. Researchers can check the OnLine Catalog of the Weinberg Memorial Library to see if the book resources are part of our collection, if not t the user may request books through Palci EZ-Borrow or WorldCat. Tutorial Available.

The Cochran Library
This site provides full text access to information compiled by Cochrane Collaboration. Purpose of the database is to provide reviews of the best evidence from clinical trials in medicine. Coverage is from 1991 to present. Updated quarterly. Tutorial Available .

Consumer Health Complete
This database provides the consumer with understandable health information and medical information. It includes medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles. Provided by Access PA. Tutorial Available.

Emerald
Emerald Library is a collection of 130 academic and professional journals primarily from the MCB University Press based in Bradford, UK. Coverage for this full text database is from 1989 to the present. Tutorial Available

JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association)
The Journal of the American Medical Association is alone in this database. User requires a special password and ID available from the Reference desk. #4000/4001.

JAMA Patient Page
About 390+ entries; each includes a basic overview of the topic, charts and graphs, medical procedures and additional useful information. Many of the Patient Pages are also available in Spanish.

Lexis-Nexis
Provides full-text access to periodicals. Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe is a valuable source for both legal information (including health care law) and news information (including medical/nursing news).
These can be search simultaneously or individually. Updated daily, users can limit results by days, months or years. This database contains 5200+ sources. Use the left menu to located specific needed resources.

Medline/PubMed
PubMed, the search engine developed by the National Library of Medicine, provides free public access to MEDLINE, a database of more than 10 million bibliographic citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences. Coverage extends back to 1966 and new material is incorporated weekly. Tutorial Available

MedLine (First Search)
Coverage is the same as the National Library of Medicine’s Medline/PubMed but the First Search feature “ILL or InterLibrary Loan” makes this a useful resource when a needed article is unavailable Full-Text in any of our subscribed to databases. Tutorial Available

Newsbank
Similar to a clipping service this is a database of full-text news resources consisting of more than 500 regional, national, and international newspapers and newswire sources. Coverage is from 1992 to the present and is updated daily. Articles are selected for inclusion rather than having full content of the newspapers. Under Hot Topics there is a section Science and Health Research Topics.

PsycArticles via Ovid
Published by the American Psychological Association (APA), the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber PsycARTICLES via Ovid is a database of full-text articles. Journal coverage 1985-present Tutorial Available.

PsycINFO
Provides citations with abstracts from more than 1,300 international journals plus books and book chapters containing the literature of psychology and the behavioral sciences. Coverage - 1887 to the present. Tutorial Available

SAGE
SAGE Publications publishes over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. SAGE Journals Online is the online delivery platform that provides online access to the full-text content of individual SAGE journals. Tutorial Available.

Wilson Databases
Wilson Web hosts several databases that are applicable to the field of nursing, including Applied Science Full Text (good for science information, includes professional journals), General Science Full Text (good for basic medical information) and Readers’ Guide (good for public health and popular information on nursing). Tutorial Available.

Dictionary of Nursing Research and Theory
Need definitions of terms that are currently being used in the nursing literature this is a good place to start.
Each edition adds new terms allowing the researcher to keep abreast of changes in the literature. (REF RT 81.5 .P69 2006).

Gale encyclopedia of medicine
Multivolume set that will give you some basic information about your topic. (REF RC41. G35).

Medline/PubMed
The Bookshelf is a growing collection of biomedical books that can be searched directly by typing a concept into the textbox and selecting the Full-Text book that appears.

MERCK Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
Revised Annually. Essential information on diagnosing and treating medical disorders.
(REF RC55 .M4).
Also available to search online at http://www.merck.com/mmpe/about/front/commitment.html

Physicians’ Desk Reference
Revised annually, this is the most commonly used source for information about currently available prescription drugs. Includes generic, trade name and product category indexes as well as a very useful picture identification section. (REFDESK RS 75 .P5).

CINAHL PLUS with Full Text Advanced Searching (runtime 4.5 minutes)
http://support.epnet.com/training/flash_videos/CINAHLBasicSearching.html

CINAHL PLUS with Full Text: In Depth Review (runtime 8.5 minutes)
http://support.epnet.com/training/flash_videos/CINAHLAdvancedSearching.html

Consumer Health Complete (runtime 5.00 minutes)
http://support.epnet.com/training/flash_videos/CHCinterfaceTutorial.html

Interactive Health Tutorials
http://statehealthfacts.org/

PubMed Tutorials
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html

Academic Integrity Tutorial & Scholarly Research Website
http://academic.scranton.edu/department/wml/academicintegrity.html

NetLibrary
http://www.oclc.org/netlibrary/demo/

About.com
http://nursing.about.com/
Current nursing topics organized and updated by a RN.

AETNA
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/408/408.html

American Association of College Nursing
www.nche.edu

American Nurses’ Association
www.ana.org

Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/

CINAHL Sources
http://www.cinahl.com/csources/csources.htm

Healia.com
http://www.healia.com/healia/

Healthfinder.gov
http://www.healthfinder.gov/

Healthline.com
http://www.healthline.com/
Doctor reviewed medical information. Lists quality ratings for some of the results listed. Has a Health map with each search so user can broaden or narrow the search.

Mamma.com
http://www.mammahealth.com/

Martindales’ THE "VIRTUAL" ~ NURSING CENTER
http://www.martindalecenter.com/Nursing.html

Medicinenet.com
http://www.medicinenet.com/rosuvastatin/article.htm

Medstory.com
http://www.medstory.com/
Connects to intelligent medical information but will also give information from Wikipedia.

MSN Health and Fitness
http://www.webmd.com/policies/about-privacy-policy
General Health and fitness information. Connects to commercial sites.

National Institute of Health
www.nih.org

National Institute of Nursing Research
http://www.medscape.com/index/section_1221_0
Free but must register to use. Part of Medscape Today.

National League for Nursing
www.nln.org

National Library Of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hinfo.html

RN Central
http://www.rncentral.com/

Statehealthfacts.org
http://statehealthfacts.org/

Statistical Resources on the Web - Health
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/sthealth.html
Maintained and updated by the University of Michigan's Documents Center tracks world health data.

TauMed.com
http://taumed.com/

U.S. Census
http://www.census.gov/

U.S. Census (State and County facts)
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/42000.html

Webmd.com
http://www.webmd.com/policies/about-privacy-policy
Popular health portals. More like a guidebook, site categorizes content they think will be of interest to the users.

Worldwide Nurse – Internet Nursing Index
http://www.wwnurse.com/

Yahoo Health
http://health.yahoo.com/site/

*NOTE Recognize that many of these internet sites have commercial sponsors and they have their own perspectives on health issues. According to the July 14, 2007 Wall Street Journal in an article by Jeanette Borzo, 71% of online users turn to their computers to research health issues. Many of the health sites listed are those used by these users to get an understanding of their health issues.

NURSING ASSOCIATIONS

American Nurses Association (ANA)
http://www.ana.org

ANA Nursing World
http://www.nursingworld.org/
Official web site of the American Nurses Association

National Coalition of Ethnic and Minority Nurse Associations (NCEMNA)
http://www.ncemna.org/

National League of Nursing
http://www.nln.org/

Pennsylvania State Nurses Association
http://www.panurses.org/new/

Student Nurses’ Association of Pennsylvania
http://www.snap-online.org/

ONLINE FORUMS & DISCUSSION GROUPS

Nursing Discussion Forums
http://nursing.buffalo.edu/mccartny/nursing_discussion_forums.html

Google Blog Search
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en

By using the search term “Nurse” a number of nursing blog links can be retrieved.

NURSING RESOURCES