NURSING AND HEALTH OCCUPATIONS

Databases | Books | Web Resources | Print Journals | Citation Guides | College Resources

FIND AN ARTICLE: SEARCH THE LIBRARY’S DATABASES

These databases are either tailored to your subject or they provide coverage over a wide range of interdisciplinary topics. Before you start, you might take a look at some tips on searching databases.

• Nursing Reference Center: Access to thousands of full-text documents from clinical resources that detail best practice guidelines, evidence-based care sheets nursing guides, unique point-of-care reference books. This resource is cross-referenced with CINAHL. A tutorial points out its many features.

• CINAHL: Full text articles from more than 520 journals to create a definitive research tool for nursing and allied health professions. Take a look at a tutorial on how to use CINAHL and another tutorial on advanced searching.

• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition: Access to nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines and features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals to provide authoritative information

• Medline: Authoritative information from over 4,800 current biomedical journals using a database created by the National Library of Medicine

• Health Source: Consumer Edition: Access to information from more than 130 full text, consumer health magazines and is updated on a daily basis

FIND A BOOK: GO STRAIGHT TO THE STACKS

If you can't go the library's stacks, check out our collection of online reference books:

• Credo Reference Online: Access to more than 300 reference books, including general and specialized encyclopedias and dictionaries for overviews on topics

• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia: Online access to a general encyclopedia covering a wide range of topics

• World Atlas: Provides maps, images, and the ability to compare demographic information from different countries

If you can visit the library, it's easy to browse our collection because we organize books by their subject:

You also might try these reference books:

• Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health: Presents concise definitions and explanations of terms often used in medicine and health studies Ref R 121 .M65 2003

• Magill’s Medical Guide: A five-volume set that contains information on medical issues and topics and includes a glossary, appendixes, and indexes Ref RC 41 .M34 2005

• Illustrated Manual of Nursing Practice: Presents in-depth coverage in articles arranged by topic, including illustrations, tables, and an index Ref RT 41 .144 2002

• The AMA’s Complete Medical Encyclopedia: Provides more than 5000 alphabetized entries on medical topics, including illustrations and an index Ref RC 81 .A2 A497 2003

• Merck Manual of Medical Information: Presents overviews on medical conditions, organized by category, and includes illustrations Ref RC 81 .M535 2003

• Physician’s Desk Reference: Offers information on prescription drugs, including a diagnostic product index, a manufacturer’s index, and a product identification guide Ref RS 75 .P5 2007

• Mayo Clinic Family Healthbook: Presents information on health issues, divided by topic, in plain language for medical practitioners and general readers Ref RC 81 .M473 2003

FIND A WEBSITE: USE INTERNET RESOURCES WISELY

Although these websites are likely to be accurate, you should still evaluate information found on the Internet.

• BioMed Central: Provides access to peer-reviewed articles from open access medical journals, categorized by subject, along with links to information on chemistry, biology, and clinical trials

• Intute: Health and Life Sciences: Offers articles, resources, a timeline, and support materials related to nursing and health sciences in a searchable database, categorized by subject

• Clinical Trials: Provides governmental information on both federal and private clinical trials and includes information on clinical trial procedures and a glossary

• The Merck Manual Online Library: Offers overviews of medical disorders, diagnoses, treatments, and symptoms, organized by subject

• TOXNET: Provides governmental data on toxicology by offering access to a number of databases on environmental health and toxins

• PubMed Central: Provides citations and free, full-text articles from biomedical journals and digitized versions of back issues, along with a link to PubMed

• Journal of Community Nursing: Online version of the journal that provides full-text articles of the current issue as well as back issues until 1998

• Online Medical Dictionary: Provides concise definitions of terms often used in medicine, aimed toward general users.

The following websites are specifically geared toward evidence-based nursing information.

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ): Presents information on evidence-based practice, clinical guidelines, and preventive services, along with statistical reports on specific populations

• Evidence-Based Nursing: Guides and Tools: Offers links to information on evidence-based practices, put together by the McGill University Health Care Centre

• National Guidelines Clearinghouse: Presents government guidelines on evidence-based clinical practice and includes annotated bibliographies, EPC reports, news stories, and a glossary.

• Evidence-Based Medicine: Finding the Best Clinical Literature: A resource from the University of Illinois at Chicago's Heath Sciences Library that offers instruction on how to find clinical literature

• Searching Medical Literature for the Best Evidence: A tutorial designed by the University of North Carolina Health Sciences Library to guide students in the research process for evidence-based information

• OHSU Guide to Evidence-Based Nursing: A webpage from OHSU's library, designed to help students and health care workers find resources on evidence-based medicine

FIND A PRINT JOURNAL: READ THE LATEST ISSUES

The library subscribes to magazines and journals that are related to your field. Head to Tioga 3 and browse through some of these journals:

• New England Journal of Medicine
• JAMA
• American Journal of Nursing
• Cancer Nursing
• Journal of Community Health Nursing
• Journal of Nursing Education
• MCN: American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing
• Nursing
• RN
• AJN Career Guide for Nursing Opportunities
• Health
• Athletic Therapy Today
• CMA Today

CITATION GUIDES: CREATE A BIBLIOGRAPHY

Whether you use websites, electronic journals, reference books, or print resources, you will need a bibliography. Here’s some information on how to cite your sources:

• Avoid inadvertent plagiarism: It’s possible to copy from a source and not even know that you’ve done anything wrong.

• KnightCite: This great site formats the bibliographic entry for you, and you can select the appropriate style (MLA, APA, Chicago).

• Guide to the MLA style: The MLA-style is generally used for papers written in the humanities.

• Guide for the APA style: The APA-style is generally used for papers written in the social sciences, especially psychology. This is the required style for papers written for nursing.

FIND MORE HELP: USE COLLEGE RESOURCES

Don’t hesitate to talk to a librarian, a tutor, or your instructor when conducting research. Make the most of these resources!

• Library Hours
• Writing Center
• Tutoring Lab

Descriptions of databases are paraphrased or taken directly from Ebsco.

This page was created and is maintained by Smita Avasthi.