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HPD Library Pathfinders – Nursing
PURPOSE: 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. Health Professions Division Library Information.
2. DICTIONARIES , ENCYCLOPEDIAS, HANDBOOKS, and GUIDES
15. DISSERTATIONS
16.
1. NSU LIBRARY INFORMATION
Physical Therapy 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.
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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.
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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.
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HANDBOOKS, GUIDES, and MANUALS
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.
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.WB 39 P964 1998. Gives excellent outline of each disease and briefly of its treatment.
3. FUNDING RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH
A place to find and apply for government grants.
Links to government sites with funding summaries and possible funding opportunities.
Medi-Smart. (Norwich University).
A list of sites for funding resources in nursing.
Offers funding for candidates interested in basic and clinical research and in obtaining “training on health and illness across the lifespan.”
Possible funding resources through the National Science Foundation.
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.
Touts itself as “the nation's largest, most accurate, and most frequently updated scholarship database online.”
The March of Dimes offers $5,000 scholarships to nurses who wish to specialize in maternal child nursing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A list of periodicals that can be accessed free of charge. This service is provided by Hardin MD.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 HealthcareGroup (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.”
MEDLINE (Ovid)
Coverage is from 1806 - Present. Indexes psychology and psychiatry articles from a variety of journals.
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.
Professional Guide to Diseases. Res.
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