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nursing resources @ CSC library
online databases
CINAHL Indexing for 2,938 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, records dating back to 1981. Some FULL TEXT available via OVID
Pre-CINAHL A companion database to CINAHL, provides current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to searchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing.
Nursing Reference Center point-of-care resource intended for staff nurses, nurse administrators, nursing students, nurse faculty, and hospital librarians. It delivers the best available and most recent clinical evidence and knowledge on conditions and diseases via a nursing-specific graphical interface.
Health Source/Nursing EBSCO over 500 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
Medline provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
Nursing & Allied Health Source (Proquest) Full text and peer-reviewed articles
Proquest Health Management complete, full-text information from leading publications covering all aspects of health administration, including public health and safety, hospitals, finance, personnel management, insurance, population studies, labor relations and law.
Proquest Biology Full text and peer-reviewed articles
Magill's Medical Encyclopedia online version: covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders.
R2 Digital Library 26 full-text e-books on medicine, nursing and allied health.
CREDO Reference: Medicine Medical Encyclopedias and reference books online
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,500 journals, including more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles.
Newspaper Source (EBSCO)cover-to-cover full text for 25 national & international newspapers. Full text television & radio news transcripts are also provided.
Access World News The electronic editions of record for local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources; includes world map
netLibrary e-books
EJS E-Journals (EBSCO) articles
SearchAll search all these databases at the same time
nursing websites
Medline Plus authoritative information from National Libraries of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Easy access to medical journal articles. extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.
New Hampshire Health Data Inventory
American Nurses Association Student Nurses access to NursingWorld.org
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Comprehensive government site with trends, data, and statistics by topic
National Mental Health Information Center U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
KidsCount Status of children in the U.S. with state-wide breakouts
World Health Organization Includes WHO statistical information system and world health atlas
books
Use the CSC Library catalog to find books about nursing:
Search with subject browse or subject keyword using any of these words: nursing, pharmacology, geriatric nursing, psychiatric nursing, pathology or try your own words in a general keyword search. Find journals about nursing with a subject keyword search nursing - periodicals
Most nursing books are classified under R and can be found on the lower level of the barn, and in the Reference Collection on the library's main level.
