Nursing Resources

 

General Interest, Organizations, Test Practice & More 

• National League for Nursing 
   
• Arizona State Board of Nursing 
  Many resources and contact information
   
• Arizona State Board Nursing
  Application Packets information  
  
  
• Student Nurses Association of Arizona 
  Conference information, jobs and more

 

Reference and Practice Tests 

• Deciphering Medspeak 
  Alphabetical dictionary of medical terms 
  
  
• Medical Terminology 
  From the English Centre 
   
• MERCK Online Medical Manuals
  Look for topics under Sections and Symptoms 
  
  
• NCLEX & HESI Online Course      
  Test Review & Self-Assessment Modules - Test Yourself

 Government Sources 

• Arizona Department of Health Services - Division of Public Health Services 
  Includes health statistics and reports 
  
  
• Pub Med - United States National Library of Medicine 
  Set up an account and search the database 
  
  
• Centers for Disease Control      
  Health and Safety Topics 
  
  
• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention - National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health - NIOSH  
  
  
• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
  Also includes MedlinePlus and National Women's Health Information Center.  
  
  
• Medline Plus All Herbs & Supplements
  Instructor recommended.  
  
  
• American Cancer Society
  Herbs, Vitamins and Minerals - instructor recommended.

 

Research Resources - a little help with your research & APA citation style 

• Citing Electronic Resources - from the College of DuPage
  APA examples 
  
  
• APA Style.org -
  What is APA style?  
  
  
• APA Citation Style for the Health Professions - from Chandler-Gilbert Community College 
   
  
• DianaHacker.com
  Documenting sources, gives examples and includes a sample paper in APA Style.  
  
  
• APA Worksheets and Handouts - from Massasoit Community College  
  
  
• Landmark's Son of Citation Machine
  This website allows you to check your citations online and has a tremendous amount of free information to help your research papers.  
  
  
• MCC  Learning Objects Library - a great source of information from Mesa Community College

Research Evaluation and Documentation Tools

·        Magazine or Journal
What's the difference? How can I tell if it's a magazine or a journal when I'm online? This is an easy to print handout.

• Evaluating and Citing Resources - ask yourself these questions:  

·        Author/Source - does the author have the credentials to be an authority in the field? 

·        Content of the site, Currency - when was it published or posted to the net? 

·        Purpose - Any bias? What does the site offer? -   Information, recreation or products for sale? 

·        Relevancy - is this the information you were looking for? 

• Evaluating Information - applying the CRAAP test
  Don't let the name influence you - this resource from Meriam Library is terrific for evaluating Internet pages and also magazine & journal articles. It is used by hundreds of other colleges on their web pages. 
   
• Applying the CRAAP Test to evaluate websites - this worksheet allows you to score Internet sources and add up the points. 

 

Evidence-Based Practice 

• Evidence-Based Nursing 
  This site answers the question: What is evidence-based nursing? 
   
• Introduction to Evidence-Based medicine 
  A tutorial from Duke University Medical Center explains what is meant by evidence-based practice and how to identify or construct the parts of a clinical question. 
   
• Searching the Medical Literature for the best evidence -
  "This tutorial is designed to teach you how to select and search key resources to locate evidence-based information for clinical decision-making" - from University of North Carolina Health Sciences Library.

 Online Journals 

·        The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing
      OJIN - this free online journal has a search feature with full text articles. 

·        ALLNurses.com
     You will need to submit your email and subscribe to this free service of many online nursing journals    & newsletters. 

·        CyberNurse
     Online journals, newsletters and nursing blogs.

 

Library Databases

Collections of searchable, online Journals and Magazines available on the CGCC Library Homepage
 You will need to have your student ID card activated by library staff to access these subscription databases from off campus. If you are on campus you will not need to have an activated library card. Get your student picture ID at one of the College Safety Offices either at the Pecos or Williams campuses.

The library also has a fantastic eBook collection from Ebrary that may be accessed from your home computer using your library barcode number and PIN, or from the Williams campus GSB computer lab. If off campus, you will need to down the Ebrary Reader. See Sherry Peabody for details. You may be prompted to enter your library barcode number and PIN to access these databases on and off campus.

 

• CINAHL Plus with Full Text--Provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. CINAHL Plus also contains searchable cited references for more than 1,160 journals. Full text material includes nearly 80 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.
  
• Health Source: Consumer Edition -- Search for information on many health topics including medicine, food sciences, nutrition, sports medicine, and general health.
  
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition -- Provides nearly 600 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
  
• MEDLINE-- Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
  
• OVID--Provides access to over 60 of today's top nursing journals including LPN2006 and Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!

 

Make an appointment with a librarian.
If you would like individual help with your research, please email Sherry Peabody or come to the Williams' Campus General Studies Building, room 4, between 10:30 - 4:00 Monday - Wednesday. This is also called the GSB Computer Lab.

 

03/26/2008 sp