Nursing

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Books

You can search the library catalog by author, title, subject or keyword (multiple fields at once). Some specific subject headings related to nursing are:

Reference Books

Useful sections in the library (reference and circulation):

	R	Medicine
	RT	Nursing
	QP	Physiology, including nutrition

Print Magazines and Journals

The American Journal of Nursing (AJN)
Geriatric Nursing
Harvard Health Letter
Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services
MCN, The American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing
Nursing
Pediatric Nursing
Public Health Reports
RN

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Online Library Databases

AccessScience
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An online encyclopedia of science and technology.

Health Reference Center
Use this database to find articles on fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health and safety, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, etc.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
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Scholarly full-text journal articles from medical disciplines, with an emphasis on nursing and allied health.

Lexis Nexis Academic Universe
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Articles from medical and health journals covering a wide range of medical topics and abstracts from The National Library of Medicine's Medline.

Proquest Biology Journals
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A premier source of complete information on biological topics.

Scientific & Medical ART Imagebase
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A collection of illustrations and animations depicting anatomy, physiology, surgery, diseases, conditions, trauma, embryology, histology, and other topics. Images are downloadable for educational use.

World of Microbiology and Immunology
Covers the concepts, theories, discoveries, and pioneers in microbiology and immunology, addressing current ethical, legal, and social issues, including biological warfare and terrorism.

Internet Resources

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
http://www.ahrq.gov
Provides practical health care information, research findings, and data to help consumers, providers, insurers, researchers, and policymakers make informed decisions about health care issues.

American Nurses Association
http://www.nursingworld.org
Provides information on certification, continuing education, practice, policy, legislation etc.

Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov
CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and education activities.

Medline Plus
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus
Extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 600 diseases and conditions.

The Merck Manual of Medical Information (Home Edition) http://www.merck.com/mmhe/index.html
Provides information about diseases, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment.

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Literature
A list of databases and resources from NCBI, which includes Bookshelf, PubMed, PubMed Central, online Mendelian Inheritance of Man (OMIM), NLMA Catalog, MeSH, and the Journals Database.

PubMed
http://www.pubmed.gov
A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 15 million citations from Medline and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s.