Subject Guides: Nursing
Compiled by:
Michael A. Wood
ARTICLE INDEXES AND DATABASE SEARCHING
All
are linked from the Research Databases page
of the library’s Website.
Academic
Search Premier
(via EBSCOHost)
Provides full text for
nearly 3,200 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including
social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language
and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic
studies. Click here for a complete
title list.
CINAHL
w/ Headings
(via EBSCOHost)
Provides indexing for over 1200
nursing, allied health and health sciences journals. CINAHL Information
Systems assembles this database. Latest update file 9/21/01.
Dialog@CARL
Collection of 300 databases covering news, business,
reference, arts, humanities, social sciences, government, science, technology,
medicine, and intellectual property. 18 Databases covers health and medicine
subtopics such as AIDS, Nursing, Medicine, Nutrition and Foods. Over half of
the databases offer full-text articles.
General
Science Abstracts
General Science Abstracts indexes articles of at least
one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United
States and Great Britain beginning with 1984. Topics include Astronomy, Biology,
Chemistry, Conservation, Earth Science, Environment, Health, Mathematics,
Medicine, Nutrition, and Physics. Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals
published in March 1993. Includes a number of Nursing journals citations.
The
Health Reference Center
The Health Reference Center is available on the World
Wide Web through InfoTrac. This database contains full-text articles on fitness,
pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health and
safety, HMOs and related subjects. Coverage begins with 1996. Provides access
to several nursing journals.
Health
Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
(via EBSCOHost)
Health Source:
Nursing/Academic Edition provides over 520 scholarly full text journals
focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and
indexing for over 560 journals. Click here for a
complete title list.
LEXIS-NEXIS
Academic Universe
LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe is a full-text database
that provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal and reference
information compiled specifically for the research needs of academic
institutions. LEXIS-NEXIS may be searched for general, company, industry, legal
and government news, company financial information, country and state profiles,
biographical information, medical abstracts, law reviews, U.S. code,
constitution and court rules, and state legal research.
Click on the Medical link to search full-text and
abstracted articles from news sources, medical and health journals covering
healthcare and a wide range of medical topics. Click here for a complete
title list.
MasterFILE
Premier
(via EBSCOHost)
Provides full text for over
1,880 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference,
business, health, and much more. Click here for a
complete
title list.
MEDLINE
(via EBSCOHost)
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on
medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system,
pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of
Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,000 current
biomedical journals.
PsycINFO
1887-Current (via
EBSCOHost)
Provides indexing and abstracts
for over one million articles in 1,700 journals from over 50 countries.
Contains
citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books,
dissertations, and technical reports, all in the field of psychology and the
psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry,
nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics,
anthropology, business, and law.
This database, provided by the American Psychological Association, also includes
abstracts for dissertations, books and book chapters ranging in date from 1887
to the present
FREE RESOURCES:
Note Some of the sites may only limit access to abstract and table of contents.
“FindArticles.com
is a vast archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly
updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines
and journals. You will find articles on a range of topics, including business,
health, society, entertainment, sports and more. Unlike other online
collections, each of the hundreds of thousands of articles in FindArticles can
be read in its entirety and printed at no cost. FindArticles
is a content-distribution partnership between LookSmart, which provides the
search infrastructure, and the Gale Group, which provides the published
editorial content.”
“Access the most powerful Free-To-Search database of scientific, technical, medical, and other scholarly content. Search through 20 million citations and 10 million abstracts from over 30,000 journals”
Infotrieve
Online - Tables of Contents
“Tables of Contents (TOC) is a database and alerting service providing display and electronic delivery of tables of contents of journals. The TOC Alert service delivers tables of contents of journals to you as they arrive from the publisher, based on the journal titles selected and entered in your TOC profile. You must have an Infotrieve account to use the TOC Alert service.”
“Find
individual articles from many free
magazines by browsing the categories or using the search engine’ Some
categories included are Health, Elder care, Parenting & Pregnancy, Biology
and Lifer Sciences.
PubMed
(MEDLINE)
(via NCBI, free to the public)
“MEDLINE
is the National Library of Medicine's database of references to more than 11
million articles published in 4300 biomedical journals. When you search MEDLINE:
You will find information about articles on your topic (the author, title of the article, name of the journal, date published, page numbers)
Many of the listings also have short summaries of the article (abstracts)
Sometimes you will find a link to the full article LinkOut Home Page. *Please note that access may only be limited to Abstracts. Check the CUNY Full-Text databases or the Hostos Collection for availability.
PubMed Journal Browser. Search by title, MEDLINE abbreviation, or ISSN and then link to citations from the journal.
PubMed MeSH Browser. Searchable list of Medical subject headings (MeSH).
“…
Gold mine of good health information from the world's largest medical library,
the National Library of Medicine. Health
professionals and consumers alike can depend on it for information that is
authoritative and up to date. MEDLINEplus has extensive information from the
National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on about 500 diseases
and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical
encyclopedia and dictionaries, health information in Spanish, extensive
information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from
the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials. MEDLINEplus is updated
daily.”
New
York Online Access to Health (NOAH)
New York Online Access to Health (NOAH) is a full-text
English/Spanish consumer health and patient education database maintained by
CUNY.
CUNY/HOSTOS
RESOURCES:
CUNY's
Index of Full Text Electronic Journals
“…
alphabetical lists of the titles of full-text magazines, journals, and
newspapers that are available University-wide from CUNY's subscription
databases.”
FREE RESOURCES:
Note:
Some of these sites may only limit access to abstracts and table of contents.
Please check your citation against the CUNY Full-Text databases as well as the
hostos collection and other CUNY schools for availability
Academic
Journal Directory Index
(for Nursing Journals
“The
Academic Journal Directory of the University of Texas Medical Branch
School of Nursing contains listings for over 400 journals concerning clinical
nursing, nursing education and research, and related health care fields.
A typical entry contains the full name of the journal, its publisher, its
frequency of publication, its intended readership, the types of manuscripts
reviewed, and a statement of purpose for prospective authors. Each journal entry
includes a contact address and many provide links to the official websites of
the journals and publishers.
It
has three navigation methods: Alphabetical Lists, Journals Grouped by Subject,
and Keyword Search. Click on the name of a method to move around in the
Directory.”
ALA | Internet resources for nurses and nursing students
This is an article that presents the best free Internet resources for health professionals and nursing students. The authors are Hostos Library faculty and they have tried to include only the most useful and highest quality resources from among a rich array of choices. The article begins with annotated links to the many U.S. government agency sites that collect and offer health and medical data. There are also non-governmental sites that offer everything from online medical dictionaries and anatomy texts, to Rx guides, medical image collections, and websites with study aids for nursing students.
“BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. BioMed Central publishes more than 50 on-line journals covering the whole of biology and medicine”
“Collections
of BMJ articles by specialty and topic (Clinical and Non-Clinical) published
since Jan 1998” Articles include
news, editorials, papers, clinical reviews, etc.
Over 75 non-clinical nursing articles are included bmj.com
Collected Resources : Nursing
“This
site has organized publications into several categories: free full text, free
one to six months after publication, free one year after publication, free two
years after publication, new and cancelled.
Currently more than 800 titles are available
including some Spanish and other languages”
Hardin
MD Free medical journals
“This
is a selected list of free full-text online electronic medical journals, with an
emphasis on journals that are included in PubMed Medline and have current issues
available. Most of them have no trial period stated by the publisher; some are
available on free trial
basis.”
HighWire
-- Free Online Full-text Articles
HighWire
Press provides an archive of free full-text science.
“As
of 1/29/02, we are assisting in the online publication of 382,841
free full-text articles and 1,118,919 total articles. List
limited to journals published online with the assistance of HighWire Press.”
“Journals
in PubMed for which links to the full text have been provided are listed.
Journals are sorted by title (journal abbreviation) and years of full text
availability. Clicking on the links by year
will search PubMed for that journal's articles published in that year and for
which web-accessible full text is available.
User registration, a subscription fee, or some
other type of fee may be required to access the full text of articles for some
journals. Please check your citation against the CUNY Full-Text databases as
well as the Hostos Collection for availability.
Lippincott's
NursingCenter.com Journals
Provides
Table of contents, abstracts, and full text articles….
Articles are fully searchable and issues are available from January 1996
forward. Articles from a number of journals may now be read online and/or
printed for a modest fee. Users must registers to access full-text articles.
“…
is a digital archive of life sciences journal literature
managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S.
National Library of Medicine (NLM). It is not a journal publisher. Access to
PubMed Central (PMC) is free and unrestricted.”
SELECTIVE
LIST (ALPHABETICAL by TITLE):
Note:
Some of these links limit access only to Table of Contents and/or Abstracts
Advanced
Registered Nurse Practitioner Care
Australian
Electronic Journal of Nursing Education
Australian
Journal of Holistic Nursing
Canadian
Journal of Nursing Leadership
Center
for Disease Control Publications
Health
and Medical Informatics Digest
Hospital News
Insight:
The Journal of the American Society of Ophthalmic Registered Nurses
Internet
Journal of Advanced Nursing Practice
Journal
of Neuroscience Nursing
Journal
of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association
Martindale's
Health Science Guide: Nursing Center
Morbidity
& Mortality Weekly Report
National
Student Nurses Association News
NursingWorld
| Online Journal of Issues in Nursing
Online
Journal of Clinical Innovations
On-Line
Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI)
World Wide Wounds The Electronic Journal of Wound Management
Publications
for Health Care Professionals/Other Professionals
Wound
Care Institute Newsletters
Taber's
Medical Encyclopedia
(from RxList)
“Search
for the definition of any medical term or phrase (More than 53,000 definitions).
Partial terms (ie med.) are okay.”
“Look
for background information or research new topics with freely accessible, online
biomedical textbooks. The growing NCBI Bookshelf can be searched directly or
accessed via phrases in PubMed abstracts by clicking the "Books"
link.”
McGraw-Hill
Online Learning Center
Provides
a variety of online tutorials and quizzes in number of subjects such as Anatomy
and Physiology, biology and chemistry from a number of textbooks.
Gray,
Henry. 1918. Anatomy of the Human Body
“The
Bartleby.com edition of Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247
vibrant engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication, as well
as a subject index with 13,000 entries ranging from the Antrum of Highmore to
the Zonule of Zinn”
Human
Anatomy Online - InnerBody.com
Provides
descriptive information, images and animations on the various systems of the
body. This is a product of
Intellimed International.
The
Merck Manual (click
here to access Home Edition)
“…Provide useful clinical information to practicing physicians, medical students, interns, residents, nurses, pharmacists, and other health care professionals in a concise, complete, and accurate manner. The Merck Manual continues to cover all the subjects expected in a textbook of internal medicine as well as detailed information on pediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics, gynecology, dermatology, pharmacology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, and a number of special subjects”
netLibrary is a collection of full-text e-books, including 860 titles purchased by CUNY and the entire 4,000-volume netLibrary Public eBook Collection. netLibrary titles are listed in the CUNY+ catalog. netLibrary requires each user to register before checking out titles. Includes some nursing titles.
USP
DI Volume II, Advice for the Patient
(via EBSCOHost)
”Provides patient-oriented drug information in lay
language. Monographs are organized into the following sections: Brand Names
commonly used in both the United States and Canada, Description, Before Using
This Medicine, Proper Use of This Medicine, Precautions, and Side Effects.”
PERIODICALS
AND BOOKS IN THE HCC LIBRARY COLLECTION
Search CUNY+, the Online Catalog, for journals and books on nursing as a discipline. Use the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) such as “Nursing”, “Surgical Nursing” or “Psychiatric Nursing”. These terms can be searched as a “Subject” ( example, S=Nursing) or as keywords (example, K=Psychiatric and Nursing). Items located at Hostos Community College are indicated in CUNY+ as HO. To restrict your searches to the Hostos CC Library, type set cat ho in the command line and hit the <enter> key.
WorldCat
WWW version of the OCLC union catalog contains
bibliographic information on over 39 million items from books and journals to
CD-ROMs and videos. Search via keyword, author or title. Includes holding
information from libraries around the world. Your searches can be limited to the
Hostos Community College.
Provides
the latest nursing news, discussion, chat, jobs and other nursing links.
“This
Page is Part of The Nursefriendly National Nursing & Consumer Health
Directories.”
The
site has a link for Student Nurses providing access to resources Care Planning,
NCLEX, Text Preparation, etc.
“About
.com: nursing brings together a number recourse/topics that are of interest to
nursing. Topics includes Assessment
Skills, Diseases/Disorders, Infection Control, Nursing Management, Nursing
Shortage, Pain Management, Patient Education”
“This
web site exists to provide caregivers a place to share ideas and resources. It's
called Careplans.com because our goal is to address the entire care planning
process including Assessment, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation as
defined in the nursing process. The site includes a real time chat room,
discussion forums, and libraries to assist caregivers in all aspects of
healthcare. The site is built and maintained by nurses for nurses and other
related caregivers.”
The
links of care plans and case studies were compiled and created by: Ellen Bosman,
M.L.S. at Indian University.
“…CyberNurses
continue to author and update Cybernurse.com so that Nurses everywhere have a
place to gather, glean information and in general, hang out.’
“Search
for information on more than 4,500 popular drugs written in plain English and
more than 3,000 in plain Spanish.
RxList
was founded and is maintained by Neil Sandow, Pharm.D. a licensed California
Pharmacist with twenty + years of experience in retail and institutional
pharmacy and twelve years as a Director of Pharmacy for several Bay Area
hospitals. Dr. Sandow has been publishing on the Internet since 1994.”
“...simply
enter the term or drug name you wish to have information on and the results of
your search will be listed for you - then just click on the appropriate link”
“This searchable drug database is provided for the exclusive use of
owners of the 2002 PDR Nurse's Handbook”
Provided by Thomson Learning, Inc.
“…is
a free guide to reliable consumer health and human services information,
developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
healthfinder® can lead you to selected online publications, clearinghouses,
databases, Web sites, and support and self-help groups, as well as government
agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for
the public”
“NursingCenter.com
(www.nursingcenter.com) is an interactive web community and portal created by
nurses for nurses as a source of nursing information and content that is
comprehensive, credible, convenient, and current. NursingCenter.com
provides nurses of all backgrounds and specialties with a forum to share ideas,
access reference materials, advance their careers and education, order products
and services, and read about the social, ethical and political topics affecting
the nursing profession.”
This
provides links to a number of resources on specialty topics such as AIDS,
Critical Care, Infectious Disease, Pediatrics, etc.. Registration
is required to access free resources.
Martindale's
Health Science Guide: Nursing Center
This
is an excellent to variety of nursing resources.
It includes many interactive sites on Anatomy & Histology,
Cardiology, Chemistry & Biochemistry,
Drugs/Pharmacology,
Nursing Practice & Critical Care, etc. This site is created by Jim
Martindale and hosted by UCI
Science Library
Medical
Student and Medical School
“MedicalStudent.com is a digital library of authoritative medical information designed to help all students of medicine. The goal of MedicalStudent.com is to provide a starting point for entry into medical places of enlightenment, entertainment and education on the Internet. MedicalStudent.com identifies authoritative medical World-Wide Web sites that can teach, illuminate, and inspire.”
“The
Nursing Theory Page is a collaborative effort by an international
group interested
in developing a collection of resources about nursing theories throughout the
world. The project began on 21 May 96 and will always be a work in progress.
The Nursing
Theory Page simply links pages built and maintained by others who have knowledge
about a theory.”
“Provides
a bulletin board dealing with many nursing subjects, such as emergency nursing
and long term care. Also
includes a good variety of nursing chat rooms for venting, getting health care
information, or just finding a virtual nursing friend.
Virtual Nurse provides 3 Search Engines Specific to Nursing, 1. holistic
and alternative health links, 2. current nursing issues such as the nursing
shortage or mandatory overtime, 3. from Nursing Theory to IM injections and
trach care.”
“RN
Central,
a special place on the web for nurses and students. More than just a list of
links, RN Central is a website where nurses can enjoy themselves, support each
other, and find information important to nursing and patient care.”
“The
Students’ guide to the Internet”
State
Boards of Nursing Contact Information
This
site provides contact information for the various State Boards of Nursing.
Includes a link to the Web site if available. PediatricNursing.com
provides this site.
Transcultural
and Multicultural Health Links
Provides
links to ethic and religious groups as well as other groups such as gays and
lesbians. Compiled
and Created by: Ellen Bosman, M.L.S. Indiana
University “
Compilation
of Nursing History resources by the Virginia Commonwealth University.
Men
in American Nursing History
This
is an interactive site that takes you through narrative on men in the in history
of nursing. The is created by Bruce
Wilson an Associate Professor in the Department of Nursing at the University of
Texas – Pan American.
PROFESSIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS AND SPECIALTY GROUPS
American
Public Health Association
NLN
-- The National League of Nursing
Academy
of Medical-Surgical Nurses
American
Academy of Ambulatory Care Nurses
American
Academy of Nurse Practitioners
American
Association of Colleges of Nursing
American
Association of Critical Care Nurses
American
Association of Nurse Anesthetists
American
Association of Spinal Cord Injury Nurses
American
College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM)
American
College of Nurse Practitioners
American
Organization of Nurse Executives
American
Psychiatric Nurses Association
American
Society of Ophthalmic Registered Nurses (OSORN)
American
Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses
Association
of periOperating Room Nurses, Inc.
Association
of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses
Case
Management Society of America (CMSA)
National
Association of Neonatal Nurses
National
Association of Orthopedic Nurses
National
Black Nurses' Association
National
Council of State Boards of Nursing
National
Federation of Licensed Practical Nurses
North
American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA)
Nurses
Organization of Veterans Affairs
Sigma
Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society
Wound,
Ostomy and Continence Nurses
SELECTIVE
PRINT RESOURCES IN THE HOSTOS COLLECTION
Davis's
drug guide for nurses 7th
ed.
Deglin,
Judith Hopfer, 1950-
Philadelphia
: F.A. Davis Co., c2001.
Hostos
CC Reference RM301.12
.D44 2001
Laboratory tests and diagnostic procedures with nursing Diagnoses 5th ed.
Corbett,
Jane Vincent.
Upper
Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall Health, c2000.
Hostos
CC Stacks RT48.5
.C67 2000
Stedman's
medical dictionary . 27th ed.
Stedman,
Thomas Lathrop, 1853-1938.
Philadelphia
: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2000.
Hostos
CC Reference R121 .S8
2000
Nursing
care plans & documentation: nursing diagnosis & collaborative problems
2nd ed.
Carpenito,
Lynda Juall.
Philadelphia
: J.B. Lippincott, c1995.
Hostos
CC Reserve RT49
.C38 1995
The
Lippincott manual of nursing practice. 5th
ed. ... <et al.>.
Suddarth,
Doris Smith.
Philadelphia
: Lippincott, c1991.
Hostos
CC Reserve RT
51 .B78 1991
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