SUBJECT GUIDE -- Nursing
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Compiled by Professor Lisa Tappeiner Allied health liaison librarian
Search these databases on campus or at home to find the full text of articles on nursing and health. Having trouble finding articles? Visit our Ask a Librarian page and contact us.
Academic
Search Premier
Provides full text
for nearly 3,200 multidisciplinary scholarly publications—from the humanities
and ethnic studies to science and health.
AltHealth Watch
This alternative health database provides full text for more than 180 publications, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
The most comprehensive source available of full text for nursing and allied health journals, providing full text for more than 560 journals. With more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937, CINAHL Plus with Full Text is an excellent research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.
Health and Wellness Resource Center
This database has reference materials as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources, including the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine and Mosby's Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health Dictionary.
Health Reference Center (Facts on File)
Contains thousands of entries organized into four major categories: conditions and diseases, mental health, health and wellness, and body systems. It provides clear information on the causes, cures, key research, medical terms, symptoms, treatments and trends, and organizations in each field of study.
Health Reference Center Academic
Full-text articles on fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health and safety, HMOs and related subjects. There are forty full text academic journals within the Health Reference Center in the fields of nursing and allied health. Coverage begins with 1996.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong, including full text from Creative Nursing, Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Journal of Community Health Nursing, Journal of Nursing Management, Journal of the Society of Pediatric Nurses, Nursing, Nursing Diagnosis, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Forum, Nursing Inquiry, and many more. In addition, this database includes Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs.
JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association)
JAMA is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal published 48 times per year. It is the most widely circulated medical journal in the world. Full-text access: January 1998-present
Magill's Medical Guide
This medical reference guide provides overviews and images for diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine.
New England Journal of Medicine
Full-text of this major medical journal 1993-present.
Nursing Resource Center (Gale)
Provides authoritative information written in accessible language for students completing research papers, class assignments, and those preparing for their clinical experiences as they learn how to care for and treat patients. It includes nursing reference works, such as PDR Nurses Drug Handbook and NANDA?s Nursing Diagnoses: Definitions and Classification, as well as nursing care plans and core nursing and allied health journals.
PubMed (Medline)
The most comprehensive database for medical research--limits available for full-text and nursing journals.
StatREF!
Ebooks for nursing students -- NCLEX study guides, Care planning books, and more.
Allied Health ebook reference shelf
The American Heritage Medical Dictionary
Churchill Livingstone's Dictionary of Nursing
Complete Human Diseases and Conditions
Complete Human Diseases and Conditions
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary
Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied health
The Human Body Book: An Illustrated Guide to Its Structure, Function and Disorders
Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Health Professions
Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
Recommended Websites for nursing students
American Nursing Association: Nursing World
NLN: National League for Nursing
Hardin MD: Nursing and Nursing Research
National Institute of Nursing Research
Nursing on the net: National Network of Libraries of Medicine
McMaster University: Nursing Resources