Research Guide for Nursing & Athletic Training

Information Resources	Guides for Nursing Courses
Finding Articles	Nursing Theorists
Finding Books, Videos, DVDs, & CDs	School Nursing
Online Books	Transcultural Nursing
Finding Authoritative Web Sites	Nursing Research
Health Statistics

FINDING ARTICLES

Health Databases

Health

EBSCO's Health databases searches CINAHL ®, PreCINAHL ™, Health Source ®: Nursing/Academic Edition, Clinical Pharmacology, SPORTDiscus, and the multidisciplinary Academic Search ™ Premier. The citations in these databases link to the full text of the article when available. You can search individual databases by going to EBSCO Database Selection . Additional search features are provided when you limit your search to a single data.

The EBSCO Health databases is the best place for locating the full text of articles.

National Library of Medicine Gateway

The National Library of Medicine Gateway facilitates the simultaneous search of multiple National Library of Medicine information systems, including MEDLINE and PubMed. Users can access citations - some of which link to full text, video, audio and images.

PubMed

PubMed is a free database that searches millions of article citations from approximately 5000 journals of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences. Users can access citations - some of which link to full text, video, audio and images.

LexisNexis Academic

Medical News 47 Titles
This is a database of full text articles in the fields of life sciences, medicine, & health. (Dates of coverage: varies by title, all titles to present)

Medical Journals 20 Titles
This is an index of full-text journal articles in fields of life sciences, medicine, & health. (Dates of coverage: varies by title, 11 titles to present)

Medical Abstracts
This is an index to the abstracts of journal articles in the National Library of Medicine's Medline (Dates of coverage: 1966-present)

 

Health Related Databases

EBSCO Education

EBSCO's Education searches three databases, Professional Development Collection ™, ERIC ®, and the multidisciplinary Academic Search ™ Premier. Most of the citations in these databases link to the full text of the article when available.

ProQuest Education Journals

ProQuest® Education Journals gives users access to over 700 top educational publications, including nearly 600 of the titles in full text. Image articles include all the charts, tables, diagrams, and other graphical elements often used to enhance the editorial value of articles that focus on education topics. ProQuest Education Journals covers not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.

Psychology

EBSCO's Psychology searches three databases, PsycINFO ®, PsycARTICLES, and the multidisciplinary Academic Search ™ Premier. Searches can be limited to the PsycINFO database by going to EBSCO Database Selection. This will allow you to search using an electronic version of APA's official Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms ® .


Suggested APA subject terms may be helpful in finding information on the topics listed below:

• Gerontology
• Neuroscience
• Nursing
• Nutrition & Dietetics
• Psychopharmacology

Sociology

EBSCO's Sociology databases searches SocINDEX™ with Full Text and the multidisciplinary Academic Search ™ Premier. SocINDEX™ with Full Text encompasses the broad spectrum of sociological study with abstracts for more than 815 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. The full text for 397 "core" and 150 "priority" coverage journals dating back to 1908, are covered. Books/monographs, conference papers, and other non-periodical content sources are also included.

WestLaw Campus Research

WestLaw Research Campus is an online legal research tool for students interested in law-related areas such as criminal justice, social work, business, education and law. In addition to primary legal information consisting of case law, and state and federal statutes, this resource provides summaries and analysis of court decisions, law reviews, and synopsis of legal issues.

Please note that in order to access this database, WestLaw requires users to check the I agree button at the bottom of the terms of agreement page.   

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FINDING AUTHORITATIVE WEB SITES

Franco Library’s Internet Reference Library

The Internet Reference Library has a list of selected Psychology, Health & Medicine Web sites. The Internet Reference Library can be accessed from the Electronic Resources page of the Library Web site.

Brodart DartClix

The Brodart DartClix consists of 16,000 professionally selected Web sites.

Google Health Directory

Search results are limited to authoritative web sites.

• Limit searches to government or education web sites by adding site:.edu or site:.gov to your search terms.
  Example: diabetes site:.edu
  
  
• Add the term HONcode. Health and medical web sites with the HONcode seal meet the accreditation standards of HONcode.
  Example: diabetes HONcode
  
  
• Search the National Library of Medicine MedlinePlus database
  

The Research Guides page, listed under Research Help on the Alvernia Library Research page, links to sources for finding and evaluating Web sites.

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FINDING BOOKS, VIDEOS, DVDS, & CDS

WorldCat 100 million records

This Online Union Catalog lists holdings from libraries across the world. Searches can be conducted across all libraries or limited to the Alvernia Library collection. Searches can also be limited to specific types of documents such as books, visual materials and Internet resources. (dates of coverage: 2100 B.C. – present)

Requesting a book from this collection only takes a minute. Click on the Borrow this item from another library link. Submit the form with your Alvernia ID number and allow two weeks for delivery of the requested book.

Alvernia's Catalog

Alvernia's Catalog is the best tool for finding items in Alvernia Library's collection. You can search for books, audiobooks, books in the Best Seller collection, audio-visual materials (videos, DVD's and CD's), course reserves, and journals in our print collection. Item records indicate if the item is available. Students, faculty and staff with an Alvernia ID card can place a hold on items that are currently in circulation.

A good way to start your research is to read brief overviews about your topic. Reference books provided an overview as well as a sense of the scope of a topic, and introduce terms that may be helpful in searching for additional information. Examples of books with background information and reference sources are listed below:

The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research 001.42 S129 2005

The Encyclopedia of Elder Care R362.198 E56 2004

Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary 610.3 D711 2007

Encyclopedia of Hormones R571.7403 E56 2003

Encylcopedia & Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Allied Health R610.3 E56 2003

Spanish-English, English-Spanish Medical Dictionary R610.3 M141 2005

Mosby's Medical Dictionary R610.3 M894 2006

Grant's Atlas of Anatomy R611 A284 2005

The CIBA Collection of Medical Illustrations R611.8 N474

Handbook of Psychophysiology R612.8 H236 2000

Statistical Handbook on Infectious Diseases R614.0727 W343 2003

World Epidemics: A Cultural Chronology of Disease From Prehistory to the Era of SARS R614.49 S673 2003

Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide R615.1 K18 2006

Physicians Desk Reference R615.105 P578 2006

Math for Nurses: A Pocket Guide to Dosage Calculation and Drug Preparation R615.24 B791 2006

Nursing Herbal Medicine Handbook R615.32 N974 2001

The Encyclopedia of Complementary and Alternative Medicine R615.5 E56 2004

Psychopharmacology R615.78 A 512 2004

Clinical Nutrition R615.8 C641 2005

Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms R616.047 P964 2003

Illustrated Dictionary of Immunology R616.07 C967 2003

Nursing Diagnosis Refernce Manual R616.075 S736 2008

The Encyclopedia of the Muscle and Skeletal Systems and Disorders 616.7 S275 2005

Encyclopedia of the Neuological Sciences R616.8 E56 2003

Diagnosis and Statistical Manual Mental Disorders: Diagnosis, Etiology & Treatment R616.8907 F527 2004

Quick Reference Dictionary for Athletic Training 617.1 B528, 2005

The Encyclopedia of Children's Health and Wellness R618.92 T939 2004

The Crisis in Youth Mental Health R618.928 C932 2006

The Oxford Book of Health Foods R641.3 V367 2003

Athletic Training & Sports Medicine 671.1 A817 1999

wired.MD streaMed Patient Education Solution

Consumer health and patient education videos can be downloaded from wired.MD streaMed Patient Education Solution. These videos present information on the most common health conditions, diagnoses, procedures, and treatments.

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ONLINE BOOKS

Biomedical books

The National Center for Biotechnology Information's collection of electronic books can be searched for medical topics. Current textbooks include the following titles (for a complete list please go to the NCBI Bookshelf website):

• Cancer Medicine, 6th ed. (2003)
• Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults (1998)
• The Genetic Landscape of Diabetes (2004)
• Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma (1997)
• Inflammatory Atherosclerosis: Characteristics of the Injurious Agent (2002)
• Molecular Biology of the Cell, 4th edition (2002)
• Historical Works: Medicine in the Americas (2004) - 5 vols.

NetLibrary eBooks

A collection of over 12,000 eBooks is now accessible from NetLibrary. eBooks are full text electronic versions that can be borrowed and returned over the Internet. To access eBooks from off-campus, you must first Create A Free Account from a computer on the Alvernia College computer network. This database contains more than 100 nursing books. Several examples are listed below:

• Nursing Diagnosis Manual: Planning, Individualizing, and Documenting Client Care (2005)
• Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice (2005)
• Health Assessment Through the Life Span (2005)
• Women At the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America (2004)
• Florence Nightingale's European Travels (2004)
• Community Health Nursing: Frameworks for Practice (2003)

Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health

The Encyclopedia covers topics in all major health professions, including nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, respiratory therapy, medical lab technology, emergency medical technology, pharmacology and nutrition. In addition, approximately 400 photographs and illustrations are featured.

The Encyclopedia covers articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences.

Gray's Anatomy
http://www.bartleby.com/107/

The classic illustrated text of human anatomy (20th edition, 1918) is now available online. It is fully searchable by keyword, table of contents, or subject index containing 13,000 entries. From Bartleby.com. (LII)

Mental Measurements Yearbook

Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. The MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. All MMY entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts. MMY provides coverage from Volume 9 to the present.

Merck Manuals

• The Merck Manual of Medical Information--Second Home Edition
  http://www.merck.com/mmhe/index.html
  The full-text, searchable consumer edition of the famous Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy "meant for all those people interested in medical care who did not have a medical degree." Includes audio files of pronunciations, photographs, animations, and video files. (LII)
  
• The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, Seventeenth Edition
  http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/home.jsp
  This well-known medical diagnostic handbook is online in its entirety. Searchable, and browsable by chapters. (LII)
  
• The Merck Manual of Geriatrics, Third Edition
  http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmg/home.jsp
  Online edition of print book of same title, providing "information of clinical relevance on geriatric care." Searchable, and browsable by index. (LII)
  
• The Merck Manual of Health and Aging
  http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual_ha/contents.html
  Online edition of print book of same title, providing "information of clinical relevance on geriatric care." Searchable, and browsable by index. (LII)

National Academy Press
http://www.nap.edu/

Full-text of over 3,700 books, searchable and categorized by subject, including Health & Medicine. Selected titles include:

• Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States (2005)
• Emergency Care for Children: Growing Pains (2006)
• Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality (2003)
• Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses (2004)
• Military Nursing Research: Bibliographies (1996)
• Preventing Medication Errors:Quality Chasm Series (2007)
• Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Lectures -- 2001: Exploring Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care (2002)
• When Children Die: Improving Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and Their Families (2003)
• Who Will Keep the Public Healthy? Educating Public Health Professionals for the 21st Century (2003)
• Enyclopedia of Occupational Health and Safe (1998)
  

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Updated: June 12, 2008

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