Research Guides -- Health Occupations:
Nursing
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There are many web sites dealing with medical and health topics. Here are a
few which provide accurate, up-to-date information:
American Psychological Association
homepage
http://www.apa.org/
Provides resources for professionals, healthcare consumers and students of psychology.
CDC, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention : the nations' prevention agency http://www.cdc.gov/
Provides domestic and international public health information.
Drug InfoNet [computer
file] : the Internet source for health care information http://www.druginfonet.com/
Provides information and links for healthcare professionals and consumers concerning
health and pharmaceutical-related topics.
Health Related
Hoaxes and Rumors
http://www.cdc.gov/hoax_rumors.htm
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides information to allay
health-related fears associated with false threats and warnings.
Healthfinder
http://www.healthfinder.gov/
Developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, this site provides
a gateway to reliable consumer health and human services information including
links to news updates on health topics, selected online publications, clearinghouses,
databases, web sites, and support and self-help groups, as well as the government
agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information
for the public.
Images from the history
of medicine
http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/
Provides access to the nearly 60,000 images in the prints and photograph collection
of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S. National Library of Medicine
(NLM). The collection includes a variety of media illustrating the social and
historical aspects of medicine.
MayoClinic.com
http://www.mayoclinic.com/
Provides searchable access to reliable, understandable information that is updated
weekly by a team of Mayo experts.
Merck homepage
http://www.merck.com
Provides online access to several Merck publications that are standard references
in the health care field.
Here are sites which provide
links of interest to nurses and nursing students:
Lippincott's NursingCenter.com
http://www.nursingcenter.com/
This major medical publisher offers some full-text articles from the American
Journal of Nursing and other nursing journals, links to nursing web resources
and organizations, career information, and history of nursing.
Nursing Spectrum
http://www.nursingspectrum.com
Provides the nursing community with career and continuing education information
including access to a searchable database of full-text articles from the print
publication, Nursing Spectrum.
Online journal
of issues in nursing
http://nursingworld.org/ojin/
The Kent State University College of Nursing provides a peer-reviewed, electronic
forum for discussion of issues in nursing. Recent issues are archived.
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Available by clicking on the title of the database below. Access from home
or work is available for these databases, please read the instructions for Off
Campus Users.
CINAHL
Indexes a wide range of allied health articles, many of which are full-text.
Health
Reference Center - Academic
A full-text database that covers professional and consumer health and medicine
topics.
MEDLINEPlus
A service of the National Library of Medicine that provides links to information
from professional and government health organizations about drugs, diseases
and conditions, and to PubMed/MEDLINE index.
Nursing & Allied Health Collection
Indexes a wide range of allied health articles, many of which are full-text.
PubMed
A service of the National Library of Medicine that provides access to over 12
million MEDLINE
citations back to the mid-1960's and to additional life science journals. PubMed
includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related
resources.
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MATC libraries.
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This is a partial list of the nursing journals
to which the library subscribes:
American
Journal of Nursing
Geriatric
Nursing
Imprint
Journal
of Holistic Nursing
Journal
of Practical Nursing
MedSurg
Nursing
Nursing
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Books
MATC Library Online Catalog. It provides access to books, magazines, reserve materials, audio-visual materials such as videos, and selected web resources.
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