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Nursing Research Guide

Articles and Databases

MultiSearch - What is this? All Subjects Business Creative Media Health Sciences Humanities Info Tech Legal Sciences Social Sciences Vet Tech

Additional Databases Alt HealthWatch CINAHL Plus with Full Text Consumer Health Complete CREDO Reference Encyclopedia Britannica Health Reference Center Health Reference Center Academic Health Source: Nursing and Academic Interactive Functional Anatomy Nursing & Allied Health Source Psychology Journals Science In Context Science Reference Center SMART Imagebase

Note: Health Reference Center Academic has over 400 videos about surgery! Watch this short video about how you can find these videos.

Magazines, Journals, and Newspapers

• You can find magazines in the campus libraries by searching the Journal Search or the Library Catalog.
• Search the Journal Search for additional electronic versions of magazines, journals, and newspapers.

Examples of magazines that you'll find:

• AJN: American Journal of Nursing
• Computers, Informatics, Nursing
• Family and Community Health
• MCN: The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing
• Modern Healthcare
• New England Journal of Medicine
• Nursing
• Nursing Research

Subject Headings and Keyword Examples

What are subject headings?

anatomy, physiology, medical terminology, record keeping, accounting,

insurance processing, laboratory techniques, clinical and diagnostic procedures, pharmaceutical principles, medication administration, and first aid, office practices, patient relations, medical law and ethics, externship, nurse practitioner, midwife, nurse, nursing, nurse anesthetist

Books and Ebooks

Search tips:

• Try keywords like:  anatomy, physiology, medical terminology, record keeping, accounting, insurance processing, laboratory techniques, clinical and diagnostic procedures, pharmaceutical principles, medication administration, and first aid, office practices, patient relations, medical law and ethics, externship, nurse practitioner, midwife, nurse, nursing, nurse anesthetist.
• Search broad keywords because you're not searching the entire content of the ebook yet.
• In the Library Catalog, to find only Ebooks: narrow your search results by clicking on format > electronic.

Websites

We recommend websites such as:

• MedlinePlus http://medlineplus.gov/
• PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
• PubMed Central http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
• World Health Organization http://www.who.int/en/
• MORE! Take a look at the GEN Library's Delicious Links for nursing topics

Or search the recommended links for all topics:

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Tutorials and Guides

• How to use CINAHL database headings
• How to search with MeSH headings

What are you looking for?

• Job Market Analysis 
  • Search Nursing & Allied Health Source for salary surveys or job value articles.
• Professional Nursing Practice 
  • Search CINAHL Plus with Full Text.
• Patient Relations
  • Search Books 24 x 7 for customer relation books
  • or Health Reference Center Academic for articles.

Professional Organizations

• Honor Society of Nursing : Sigma Theta Tau International http://www.nursingsociety.org/default.aspx
• American Association of Colleges of Nursing http://www.aacn.nche.edu/
• National League for Nursing   http://www.nln.org/ 
• MORE! Take a look at GEN Library's Delicious Links for nursing professional associations and organizations

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