HPD Library Pathfinders – Nursing
SCOPE: This guide is designed to aid the nursing student in
finding online and print resources in the HPD Library. To find these and other
resources, start at the HPD Library
homepage.
CONTENTS. Click on any section name to go to that particular
section.
1.
PRINT SOURCES
2.
DICTIONARIES , ENCYCLOPEDIAS,
HANDBOOKS, and GUIDES (Columbia University)
3.
MOST USEFUL RESEARCH
DATABASES
4.
FUNDING RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH
5.
SCHOLARSHIPS FOR GRADUATE EDUCATION
6.
JOURNALS (NSU only)
7.
ONLINE BOOKS (NSU only)
8.
USEFUL ONLINE RESOURCES
9.
OTHER SUBJECT GUIDES
10.
GOVERNMENT
SOURCES
11.
IN-HOUSE
TUTORIALS for NSU DATABASES
12.
RESERVE
AND REFERENCE BOOKS
13.
NURSING THEORISTS
14.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (Columbia University)
15.
DISSERTATIONS
16.
NURSING
RESEARCH (Arizona
State University)
17.
PUBLISHING IN PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS
18.
EVIDENCE-BASED NURSING PRACTICE (Johns Hopkins)
19.
NURSING INFORMATICS, TESTS (Arizona State
University)
20.
NURSING
PRACTICE STANDARDS
21.
PATIENT EDUCATION RESOURCES
1. PRINT SOURCES
Nursing
books and multimedia are classified for the most part in the WY
section of the library. To find topics on related subjects, look in Novacat, NSU’s online
catalog of all electronic, print, and other materials. Titles with other call
numbers can be found in many of the sections in this subject guide or
pathfinder.
·
Circulating books
are shelved in the north-west side of the library and can be checked out for
four weeks.
·
Reference books
are kept in the front on low shelves and are for library use only.
·
Reserve books are
held behind the circulation desk and can be used for three hours in the
library.
·
Study rooms can
be checked out for three hours, both in the HPD Library and in the Assembly II
Building.
2. DICTIONARIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, HANDBOOKS, GUIDES and
MANUALS (Some items are taken from
the Arizona State and Columbia University Libraries.)
For other related items check section 12. below: “Reserve and Reference Books.”
Items marked as being available through StatRef!
can be accessed by clicking on the blue underlined label and authenticating.
- DICTIONARIES
A Biographical Dictionary of Women Healers;
Midwives, Nurses and Physicians. Res. WZ 112 S434b 2002.
This book summarizes the lives of 240 significant or
representative women who have engaged in the "core" professions of
midwifery, nursing and medicine (exclusive of psychiatry) and whose careers
were primarily spent in the United States
and Canada,
from the colonial times to the present.
Dictionary
of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations. 5th ed. 2005. (Online. Available through StatRef!).
Dictionary of Nursing Theory and Research.
3rd ed. Ref. WY
13 P888d 2006.
Historical Encyclopedia of Nursing. (Sherman Library reference shelves.)
HF3023.A2 O64 2000.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Jablonski's Dictionary of Syndromes & Eponymic Diseases. 2nd
ed. Ref. WB 15 J115j 1991.
Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions. 7th ed. Ref. W13 M8941 2006.
Mosby’s Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health Dictionary.
W13 M8941 2002; Ref. HPD Library, CD-ROM Drawer.
Stedman’s Medical Dictionary. 27ed. Ref. W
13 S812m 2000.
Taber’s® Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary. 20th
ed. 2005.Ref. 19th ed. W13 T113D 2001. (Online. Available through StatRef!).
Telenursing: Nursing Practice in Cyberspace. WY
100 S532t 2001. (HPD Library: in circulation).
Includes bibliographical references and an index.
- ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing & Allied Health. (Sherman Library Reference. RT21 .G353 2002. Also
accessible as an Electronic resource). Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Encyclopedia & Dictionary of
Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health. Ref. W13 M647e 1997.
- HANDBOOKS, GUIDES,
and MANUALS
Davis’s Drug Guide for
Nurses. 10th ed. 2007.
(Online. Available through StatRef! ).
Delmar’s Fundamental &
Advanced Nursing Skills.
2nd ed. 2004. (Online. Available through StatRef!).
Delmar’s Guide to Laboratory
and Diagnostic Tests.
2002. (Online. Available through StatRef!).
Diseases and Disorders: a Nursing Therapeutics
Manual. 3rd ed. 2007. (Online. Available
through StatRef!)
Handbook of Nursing Diagnosis. 11th
edition Res. WY 49 C294h 2006.
Pocket-sized resource covers all nursing diagnoses,
lists common clinical situations, and collaborative Problems.
Offers the 2005 NANDA Nursing Diagnoses and common
diagnoses organized on a laminated Function Health Patterns card.
Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice. 8th
ed. Ref. WY
49 L765 2006.
Mosby’s Critical Care Nursing Reference. 3rd
ed. Res. WY 49 S857m 2006. Includes information
regarding nursing assessment guides, common concepts concerning nursing care,
complimentary and other therapeutic modalities, that are helpful when dealing
with critically ill patients.
Nurse’s Guide to Cancer Care, A. 2007.
(Online. Available through StatRef!)
Nurses’ Guide to Clinical Procedures. 4th
ed. WY 49 S662n 2002. (HPD Library: in circulation).
Nurse’s Handbook of Alternative & Complementary
Therapies. WB 39 N973 2002. (HPD Library: in
circulation).
More and more patients are using alternative therapies,
often without telling their nurse or doctor. With this invaluable handbook,
you'll be prepared to ask patients about use of alternative therapies and
respond knowledgeably to their questions.
Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual. 6th
ed. Ref. WY
49 R163n 2005.
Nurses’ Guide to Clinical Procedures. 4th
ed. WY 49 S662n 2002. (HPD Library: in circulation).
Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC). 3rd
ed. Ref. WY
100 N9734 2004.
Professional
Guide to Diseases. Res. WB 39 P964 1998.
Gives excellent outline of each disease and briefly of its
treatment.
3. FUNDING RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH
Grants.gov.
A place to find and apply for
government grants.
Federal R&D Research Project Summaries
Links to government sites
with funding summaries and possible funding opportunities.
Medi-Smart. (Norwich University).
A list of sites for funding
resources in nursing.
National Institute of Nursing
Research (NINR).
Offers funding for candidates
interested in basic and clinical research and in obtaining “training on health
and illness across the lifespan.”
NSF Active
Funding Opportunities
Possible funding resources
through the National Science Foundation.
The U.S. Civilian Research & Development
Foundation (CRDF).
The CRDF “is a
nonprofit organization that promotes international scientific and technical
collaboration.”
4. SCHOLARSHIPS FOR GRADUATE EDUCATION
College Scholarships.org.
Offers scholarships to nurses interested in specializing in a variety of nursing
areas. Also provides links to government funding sites.
FastWeb.
Touts
itself as “the nation's largest, most accurate, and most frequently updated
scholarship database online.”
March
of Dimes. Perinatal Nursing Education.
The
March of Dimes offers $5,000 scholarships to nurses who wish to specialize in
maternal child nursing.
Oncology Nursing Society Foundation.
The
foundation has funded scholarships for those individuals who are pursuing a
graduate degree in oncology nursing.
5. MOST USEFUL RESEARCH DATABASES Unless otherwise indicated links to the following
sites can be found on the HPD Library homepage. Clicking on the underlined database
name will bring you to the HPD Library homepage.
CINAHL
Covers almost all the
English-language nursing journals, publications of the American Nurses
association, and the National League for Nursing. It also indexes 13 Allied
Health disciplines from 1983 to the present.
EBSCOhost tutorial from the
University of Florida.
Database
of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE). Can be found in the Cochrane Databases
under “Evidence-Based Practice Databases” on the HPD Library homepage.
“Critical assessments of systematic reviews from a variety of medical
journals.” The editors are “…expert reviewers and information staff of the
National Health Services’ Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (NHS CRD) at the
University of York, England.” Coverage is from 1966. Topics include diagnosis,
prevention, rehabilitation, screening, and treatment.
ERIC (Education
Resources Information
Center). Click on “ERIC”
to go to the site.
“ERIC …is an internet-based
digital library of education research and information sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences
(IES) of the U.S.
Department of Education. ERIC provides access to bibliographic records of
journal and non-journal literature indexed from 1966 to the present. ERIC also
contains a growing collection of full-text materials in Adobe PDF format,
including reports from the What Works Clearinghouse.” Articles go back to 1966. There
is a wealth of information about health and rehabilitation as it pertains to
education.
MDConsult
A convenient one-stop site of
online books, journals, practice guidelines, drug information, and current
topics in medicine. Journal articles are most often in full text.
MEDLINE (Ovid)
Produced by the U.S.
National Library of Medicine. The premier source for bibliographic coverage of biomedical
literature. Almost 14 million records from 4,800 journals are indexed and
abstracted. From 1950 to the present.
Ovid Tutorial from Duke
University.
PSYCINFO. Access
through the Alvin Sherman Library’s Electronic Resources.
Coverage is from 1806 - Present. Indexes psychology and
psychiatry articles from a variety of journals.
ISI
WEB OF KNOWLEDGE
The chief aim of this index is to provide access to related
articles by indicating sources in which a known article by a given author has
been cited. Over 3,300 journals are indexed.
UpToDate
A clinical reference that provides
quick access to synthesized medical information in an easy-to-use format.
6. JOURNALS For a complete list of online Nursing journals at NSU
check to see the current subscriptions using A to Z.
What
follows are sites that offer free online journals.
Free journals at
PubMed.
A
list of periodicals that can be accessed free of charge. This service is
provided by Hardin MD.
Free Medical Journals Site.
The
Free Medical Journals Site is dedicated to the promotion of free access to
medical journals over the Internet and lists only free journals. Arranged
by specialty
as well as by title/language.
HealthWeb : Nursing :
Electronic Journals
This
list from HealthWeb, the service
which has links to web sites evaluated by librarians & information
professionals, includes journals that provide full-text articles online.
HighWire Press -- Free Online
Full-text Articles
From
Stanford University Libraries, Highwire Press says it is "the largest archive of free
full-text science on Earth!" Many titles are in the fields of
medicine and life sciences.
MEDLINE
Journals with Links to Publisher Web Sites.
This
is a list of the journals in MEDLINE for which publishers have provided links
to their journal Web sites. Web-based journals usually contain the
full-text of the original article, but this is not always the case. It
varies by publisher and journal. Publishers may offer full text for a fee.
Morbidity
and Mortality Weekly Report.
Published
by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In addition to
full-text of articles, you may search
MMWR publications from 1982-present. An interesting feature is interactive
morbidity and mortality tables which may be found in the Disease Trends section.
NurseWeek (Online, free).
ISSN: 1063-2859. “Gannett Healthcare Group
(publisher of Nurse.com, Nursing
Spectrum, NurseWeek and Today
in PT) is a nursing and healthcare communications company and the
largest print and electronic publisher of news and information for registered
nurses. Our mission is to enrich the professional lives of nurses and other
healthcare professionals and to celebrate their unique contributions to
society. Our core products include Nurse.com
plus 12 regional nursing magazines and more than a dozen annual professional
development and nursing specialty guides.”
Nurse-Zine (Online, free).
ISSN not specified. "Nurse-zine" is the official email nursing newsletter from
allnurses.com
The FREE bi-monthly Nursing e-mail newsletter published by allnurses.com The Internet's Nursing Resource
since 1996.
PubMed Central
“PubMed
Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's free digital archive
of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. All journals in PMC provide
free access to full text (sometimes on a delayed basis).”
NOTE: NSU libraries hold over 21,000
online full text journal subscriptions.
7.
ONLINE BOOKS: For others follow this link: Nursing.
Here is a partial list:
A Career in Geriatric Nursing: Taking Care of
America's Elderly: Fast-growing Healthcare Career: Aging Population Requires
Great Level of Nursing Services.
Fluid and Electrolyte Balance: Nursing Considerations.
8. USEFUL ONLINE RESOURCES (Some of these sites were taken from the Johns
Hopkins’ nursing subject guide. See section 9. “Other Subject Guides” for more
information from the latter guide.)
CINAHLsources.
A highly useful page maintained by the database company. Comprises allied
health, nursing, and many more medical fields. The nursing resources include
advanced practice, nurse education, general and special topics, journals,
websites of interest to nurses, organizations and associations, and resources
for research.
DMOZ
Open Directory Project: Nursing.
Access to hundreds of
international links to sites of interest to nurses including health conditions,
senior health, the business of nursing, nursing associations, nursing journals,
treatments, and a huge list of other relevant web sites numbering well over
3,500.
Hardin MD: Nursing.
A
vast collection of resources for nursing personnel.
HealthWeb Nursing
Page. Maintained by the Taubman
Medical Library, University
of Michigan. Links to
sites relative to evidence-based nursing.
Health
Statistics. Rutgers University’s Libraries offers a very good introduction
to gathering health statistics on the web. An excellent place to begin research.
Internet’s
Nursing Index, The.
Provides links to nursing boards in the UK,
US and Canada.
Good site for various nursing specialties. Touts itself as being the largest
online community with as many as 500 topics discussed every day.
Martindale’s “Virtual”
Nursing Center. Another site with a huge collection of resources, including
intermediate and advanced nursing courses, nursing practice and protocols,
nursing grand rounds and nursing cases, national boards and review questions,
and an extra section of physical examination. A truly amazing set of resources.
MedWeb's
Nursing Page. Under the auspices of Emory University.
The site provides links to a variety of nursing organizations.
National Council of State Boards of
Nursing.
Nursing Center. A portal to hundreds of nursing education activities and to more than
fifty nursing journals.
Nursing Resources
on the Web. Maintained by Humboldt
State University
Library. A one-stop shopping center for nurses with innumerable links to
valuable sites including nursing directories, general nursing web-pages,
nursing indexes, biomedical journal abbreviations, statistical resources for
nurses, government resources both state (California) and federal, professional
societies, a truly comprehensive list of nursing journals, listservs and
discussion groups, statistical resources, and more. Almost overwhelming in its
breadth.
9. OTHER SUBJECT GUIDES: These can be used to find additional resources
both online and in print.
Johns Hopkins’ Welch Library. One of the best pathfinders on nursing on the
Internet.
Columbia
University’s Health Sciences Library. Extremely well organized and
comprehensive subject guide.
Penn State University
Library. Fairly compact, but covers all of the bases.
The University of
Delaware Library. Covers not only
international nursing resources printed and electronic, but also includes a
tutorial for CINAHL.
The
University of Washington Library. Offers additional links to nursing web
sites than those listed in NSU’s nursing pathfinder.
10. GOVERNMENT SOURCES
NLM
Locator Plus. Coverage
is from 1975 to the present. Produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM)
and includes books, journals, and audiovisuals in the NLM collection. Also
offers tutorials on how to best use the NLM resources. A link to MedlinePlus is
also included.
MedlinePlus.
Incredible portal to all things medical. To get to nursing resources or
specific topics use the search box at the top of the first page of the site.
Includes such things as health topics, encyclopedias, dictionaries, drugs and
supplements, directories, and other subjects.
National Council of State Boards of
Nursing (NCSBN). “NCSBN's programs and services include
developing the NCLEX-RN® and NCLEX-PN® examinations, performing policy analysis
and promoting uniformity in relationship to the regulation of nursing practice,
disseminating data related to the licensure of nurses, conducting research
pertinent to NCSBN's purpose, and serving as a forum for information exchange
for members.”
National Institute
of Nursing Research (NINR).
Nursing research and training programs, grants and funding opportunities,
collaborative research projects, and minority research supplements.
GPO Access Browse Topics. Provides government information on broad topics such
as health and education, food and drugs, grants and awards, science and
technology, and social programs. Each category is then broken down to include details
about federal regulations, programs, statistics, and much more.
National Institutes for Health. Gateway to a vast number of NIH health resources,
including clinical trials, health hotlines, the site MedlinePlus. Other
resources available at this site include grants and funding opportunities,
research training, research training and scientific resources, and relevant
government agency offices.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS). The mother lode of health
information: diseases and conditions, drugs and foods , aging, safety and wellness,
disasters and emergencies, families and children, grants and funding, including
grants and funding and financial aid, governmental policies and regulations,
and many other topics of relevance to nursing. In addition, there are links to
other health-related agencies.
11. IN-HOUSE and COMMERCIAL TUTORIALS for NSU DATABASES:
Tutorials for HPD Library
databases
Tutorials developed by
NSU Sherman Library
EBSCOhost tutorials
and knowledge base (commercial)
Ovid
Technologies, Inc. tutorials (commercial)
12. RESERVE and
REFERENCE BOOKS: Ask
for reserve books at the circulation desk. For reference books go to the open
shelves in the Reference Section of the library.
BOOKS FROM THE RESERVE SHELVES (Current
as of August, 2007).
Pharmacology and the Nursing Process. 5th ed. Res. QV 4 L729p 2007.
Study Guide to Accompany Pharmacology for Nursing Practice. Res. QV 4 P5368s 2003.
Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses. 9th ed. QV 735 D318d 2005.
Medical Dosage Calculations. 9th ed. Res. QV 748 O52m 2008.
Advanced Pathophysiology: Application to Clinical Practice. Res. QY 4 A244 2001.
Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications. 7th ed. Res. QY 4 K26L
2005.
Mosby's Diagnostic and Laboratory Test Reference. 8th ed. Res. QY 39 P128m
2007.
Pathophysiology: Clinical Concepts of Disease Processes. 6th ed. Res. QZ 4 P302
2003.
Pathophysiology: the Biologic Basis for Disease in Adults & Children. 5th ed. Res. QZ 4 P3027
2006.
Pathophysiology: Concepts of Altered Health States. 7th ed. Res. QZ 4 P851p
2005.
Understanding Pathophysiology. 3rd ed. Res. QZ 4 U55 2004.
Improving Quality: a Guide to Effective Programs. 2nd ed. Res. W 84.1 I296
1997.
Introduction to Health Care Economics & Financial Management:
Fundamental Concepts with Practical Applications. Res. W 84.1 P413i 2004.
Cultural Diversity in Health & Illness. 6th ed. Res. WA 30
S741c 2004.
Multicultural Medicine and Health Disparities. Res. WA 300
M9613 2006.
Statistical Methods for Health Care Research. 5th ed. Res. WA 950
M968s 2005.
Qualitative Research Methods for Health Professionals. 2nd ed. Res. WB 20.5 M885q
1995.
Nutrition Essentials for Nursing Practice. 5th ed. Res. WB 39 D845n
2006.
Expert 10-minute Physical Examinations. Res. WB 39 E96 1997.
Professional Guide to Diseases. 6th ed. Res. WB 39 P964 1998.
Physical Examination & Health Assessment. 4th ed. Res. WB 205 J38p
2004.
Patient Care Skills. 5th ed. Res. WB 460 M666p 2006.
A Practical Guide to ECG Interpretation. 2nd ed. Res. WG 18.2 G774p 1998.
Catalano Guide to ECG Analysis. 2nd ed. Res. WG 140 C357g 2002.
Wound Care: a Collaborative Practice Manual for Physical Therapists and
Nurses. 2nd
ed. Res. WO 700 W9384 2001.
Creating Successful Dementia Care Settings. Res. WT 31 C912 2001.
Falls in Older Person : Prevention And Management. 3rd ed. Res. WT 104 T558f
2002.
Can Do Activities for Adults with Alzheimer's Disease: Strength-Based Communication
and Programming.
Res. WT 155 E36c 2001.
American Nursing: a History. 4th ed. Res.
WY 11 K14a 2004.
Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice. Res. WY 16
A512n 2004.
Nursing's Social Policy Statement. 2nd ed. Res.
WY 16 A513n 2003.
Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements. Res. WY 16
C6695 2001.
Professional Nursing: Concepts & Challenges. 4th ed. Res. WY 16 P9647 2005.
Essentials of Nursing Leadership and Management. 4th ed. Res. WY 16 W592e 2007.
How to Survive and Maybe Even Love
Nursing School!:
a Guide for Students by Students. Res.
WY 18 D917h 2001.
Curriculum Development and Evaluation in Nursing. Res. WY 18
K25c 2006.
Clinical Instruction and Evaluation: a Teaching Resource. Res. WY 18
O18c 2001.
Nova Southeast. Res. WY 18 S465 2002.
CMSA's Core Curriculum for Case Management. Res. WY 18.2
C649 2001.
Reading, Understanding, and Applying Nursing Research: a Text and Workbook. 2nd ed. Res. WY 20.5 F162r 2004.
Essentials of Nursing Research: Methods, Appraisal, and Utilization. 6th ed. Res. WY 20.5 P769e 2006.
Nursing Research: Principles and Methods. 5th ed. Res. WY 20.5 P769n 1995.
Handbook of Informatics for Nurses & Health Care Professionals. 3rd ed. Res. WY 26.5 H443h
2005.
Nurses and the Law: a Guide to Principles and Applications. 2nd ed. Res. WY 33.1 B8n 2001.
Handbook of Nursing Diagnosis. 11th ed. Res.
WY 49 C294h 2006.
Nurse's Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Interventions, and Rationales. 9th ed. Res. WY 49 D651n 2004.
Clinical Handbook for Medical-Surgical Nursing: Critical Thinking in
Client Care.
3rd ed. Res. WY
49 L556c 2004.
Integrated Knowledge Development in Nursing. 6th ed. Res. WY 86 C539i 2004.
Concept Development in Nursing: Foundations, Techniques, and Applications. 2nd ed. Res. WY 86 C7435
2000.
Analysis and Evaluation of Contemporary Nursing Knowledge: Nursing Models
and Theories.
Res. WY 86 F278a 2000.
Leddy & Pepper's Conceptual Bases of Professional Nursing. 6th ed. Res. WY 86 H776L 2006.
An Introduction to Theory and Reasoning in Nursing. 2nd ed. Res. WY 86 J66i 2005.
The Neuman Systems Model. 4th ed. Res.
WY 86 N489 2002.
Nursing Theories and Nursing Practice. Res. WY 86 N9737 2001.
Nursing Theorists and Their Work. 5th ed. Res.
WY 86 N9738 2002.
Nursing Theory: Utilization & Application. 2nd ed. Res. WY 86 N9758 2002.
Perspectives on Nursing Theory. 4th ed. Res.
WY 86 P467 2004.
Theoretical Basis for Nursing. Res. WY 86 T395 2002.
Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practice. 2nd ed. Res. WY 90 L496 2003.
Delmar's Fundamental & Advanced Nursing Skills Handbook. Res. WY 100
A468d 2004.
Strategies, Techniques, & Approaches to Thinking: Critical Thinking
Cases in Nursing. 3rd ed. Res. WY
100 M385s 2006.
Fundamentals of Nursing. 6th ed. Res.
WY 100 P868f 2005.
Virtual Clinical Excursions--Medical-Surgical for Potter & Perry:
Fundamentals of Nursing. 6th ed. Res. WY
100 P868v 2005.
Concept Mapping: a Critical-Thinking Approach to Care Planning. Res. WY 100
S395c 2002.
Procedures Checklist to Accompany Foundations of Basic Nursing. 2nd ed. Res. WY 100 W585p
2005.
Health Assessment & Physical Examination. 3rd ed. Res. WY 100.4 H433 2006.
Student Lab Manual to Accompany Health Assessment & Physical
Examination.
3rd ed. Res. WY
100.4 H433s 2006.
Budgeting Concepts for Nurse Managers. 3rd ed. Res. WY 105 F499b 2001.
