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Nursing Portal

Reference   ... Why reference?
On the shelf
  Historical Encyclopedia of Nursing (Ref RT31 .S66 1999)
    Physician's Desk Reference (Ref RS75 P5)
    DSM IV (Ref RC455.2 C4 D54)
    Dorland's Medical Dictionary (Ref R121 D73)
    Human Body on File (Ref QM25 H85)
    CIBA Collections (Ref QM25 N47)
    Encyclopedia of Bioethics (Ref QH332 E52)
     
Online
  Micromedix
Evidence-based clinical information for patient care decision-making. Requires an ID & password available from your instructor. (Click "Log in as someone else.")
  National Center for Health Statisitics
    Gray's Anatomy
Online version of the classic resource for anatomy. (Not the TV show!)
    PDR
Physicians Desk Reference (Click "PDR Library" to begin.)
    Medline Plus
Medical encyclopedia, dictionary, and general reference - from NLM.
    Citation Machine
Help formatting your citations - the Nursing Dept. prefers APA style.
    Nursing Reference Center (trial subscription)
     
Journal Article Indexes ... What's this?
    Academic Search Premier
This index is a general coverage index but includes many nursing, health, and medical journals. Many articles are available in full-text, but for the more scholarly titles, you'll often need to use interlibrary loan.
    CINAHL with full-text ... Help with CINAHL
This is the premier index to nursing and allied health literature. If you have trouble locating articles in CINAHL, please ask for assistance at the Reference office.
    Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition
Covers 850 journals - articles in aboutt 450 are in full-text - 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.
    Medline
This is from the National Library of Medicine. Covers almost 10,000 journals. Not many full-text articles. Coverage includes clinical medicine, nutrition, dentistry, pathology,education, psychiatry, experimental medicine, toxicology, health services administration, veterinary medicine, nursing.
    PubMed
Also from the National Library of Medicine. Includes Medline database plus several enhancements. Powerful and flexible interface may be preferred to the Medline interface above. No login required off campus.
    ...more indexes
Journals
Alphabetical list of all current journals at Colman Library. Current issues are on the main floor; issues older than 6 months will be found on the lower floor.
     
Books
If you're browsing the shelves, most books in nursing have call numbers beginning with R.
    NIC
Books at Colman Library
    WorldCat
Locate books available elsewhere and request via interlibrary loan
     
Associations  
    Illinois Nursing Association
    National Student Nursing Association
    Other nursing organization links
Links    
    Nursing Center
is your portal to more than 700 continuing education activities and thousands of clinical articles from about 50 leading nursing journals...
    HealthWeb: Nursing
A directory of nursing resources covering a variety of topics. Clinical resources include AIDS, cancer, cardiac nursing, critical care nursing, geriatrics, hospice, nurse midwifery, and pediatrics.
    Healthy People 2010
Healthy People 2010 provides a framework for prevention for the Nation. It is a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats.
    UIUC Tutorials on using PubMed
Brief tutorials consisting of PowerPoint slides with voice narration.
 

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