Nursing  

You may contact me at 708-534-4139, or pblobaum@govst.edu .  

Or in my absence, please contact the Library Reference Desk for assistance.  l-refere@govst.edu or 708-534-4111 . 

 
For the Library Journals list and access by subject, please click here.

 Other Local Library Catalogs

Strategy to locate and access copies of articles:

1. Conduct a literature search in the  recommended indexes (above)
2. Many indexes include full-text articles in PDF, TXT, and HTML formats.  Use the     icon to for links to other options.
3. If you have a citation (Journal name, article title, year, volume number, etc) use the Full Text Journals List to locate content.
4. Double check the GSU Library Catalog to locate journals in print and microfilm formats, if not found in the Full Text Journals List.
   

Indexes to Literature and Full Text Databases.

These databases are also listed alphabetically on the Journals & Databases A-Z list. Click on the   icon in the search results for possible full text availability of an article in other databases, or in the library’s print collection.

CINAHL Plus  with Full Text - (Ebsco) About CINAHL Plus with Full Text

Tutorials:

CINAHL Plus with Full Text: Basic Searching (YouTube) (Powerpoint)

CINAHL Plus with Full Text: Advanced Searching (YouTube)  (Powerpoint) 

Using CINAHL Headings  (YouTube)  (Powerpoint)

PubMed/Medline - The most complete index for biomedical clinical and research literature, published by the National Library of Medicine.

• To limit to the Core Nursing Journal subset: Go to "Advanced Search". Under "Limit By Topics, Languages, Journals Groups" select English, Human, and then under Journal Subsets, select "Nursing".
• PubMed Basics PDF handout
• PubMed / MyNCBI handout (on using the My Account features)
• PubMed Tutorials                  
• Search Clinic: Building a PubMed Search Query (30 Minute webcast)
• National Library of Medicine Gateway http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov (meta search of all NLM databases)
• NLM Resources for Nurses (PDF file) describes the knowledge-based databases of interest to Nursing at NLM

Interdisciplinary Indexes/Databases

• PsychInfo   (Ebsco)  About PsycInfo  The APA index to psychology, counseling, addictions, and related social science and biomedical literature
  
• ABI INFORM   (Proquest) About ABI Inform  Index and full text database to business and management literature. Contains many health care and health services policy, management, and administration journals.
• Business Source Premier - (Ebsco) About BSP       Journal ranking studies reveal that Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Business Source Premier contains full text from the world's top management and marketing journals
• Biosys Previews combines the content of both Biological Abstracts and Biological Abstracts/RRM (Reports, Reviews, Meetings), thus providing comprehensive coverage of nearly 5,500 life science journals as well as 1,500 items from international meetings, review articles, books, book chapters, patents, and software reviews.Topics include agriculture, biochemistry, biotechnology, ecology, immunology, microbiology, molecular genetics, neuroscience, pharmacology, public health, toxicology, zoology.
• ERIC  About ERIC  Published by the US Department of Education. Contains both citations to journals, and ERIC documents. 80% of ERIC documents are published online for free. http://eric.ed.gov
• JSTOR Useful for indexing coverage of health policy, health sciences, and health economics journals going back to the early 1900's, with some full text coverage of journals such as American Journal of Nursing.
• Dissertations and Theses Full Text  About ProQuest Dissertations and Theses  -- is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. The official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. PQDT — Full Text includes 2.7 million searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1.2 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.

Biomedical Journal Collections

• Science Direct College Edition
• Health Science Collection (Sage)
• Lippincott Williams and Wilkins (Yourjournals@OVID)

Reference Sources

• CQ Researcher (About CQ Researcher)  Research on contemporary issues of all types.
• Credo Reference Unlimited (About CREDO Reference Library) online reference service featuring over 250 full-text reference titles with over 3 million entries from 57 highly-respected publishers integrated in a robust search engine with many unique interactive features.
• Drugs, Supplements, and Herbs lookup from the National Library of Medicine, MedlinePlus
• NIH Pillbox  BETA under development..  You can look up medications by visual description, or by name, etc.  National Library of Medicine and NIH.

Patient Education / Consumer Health Info

• MedlinePlus the National Library of Medicine clearinghouse of videos and patient ed handouts, dictionaries, encyclopedias, directories, etc.

Updated 10/8/2011  pb

ICIRN  Interagency Council on Information Resources in Nursing  

Organized in 1960, the Interagency Council on Information Resources in Nursing is a voluntary group made up of agencies and organizations concerned with providing library and informational resources for nursing and improving access to library services for all nurses.  

Essential Nursing Resources List (web and PDF formats)

Produced biennially and recently published in the National League for Nursing's publication, Nursing Education Perspectives, "References" is a comprehensive listing of both print and non-print reference materials considered essential to accessing information on all aspects of the nursing profession.  The list includes print and electronic sources to support nursing practice, education, administration, and research. 

Health Statistics Resources

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Statistics Page
• National Center for Health Statistics (also CDC)
• Illinois Department of Public Health Statistics 
• FedStats
• State Health Facts Online
  from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Contains state-level data on demographics, health, health policy, uncluding health coverage, access, afinancing, and state legislation.

Care Plans

• Nursing Care Plans
  Nursing care plans and pathways can also be found on CINAHL, see above.

Associations

• American Nurses Association
• Illinois Nurses Association
• Illinois Department of Professional Regulation

Resources

• Nursing Spectrum
  Local and regional nursing job ads, CE articles, and news.
• Nursing and Nursing Research Internet Resources
  from the University of Iowa Hardin Health Science Library.
• MedlinePLUS 
   A goldmine of good health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine.  Health professionals and consumers alike can depend on it for information that is authoritative and up to date. MEDLINEplus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 500diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and dictionaries, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid  Services
   (Formerly called HCFA, Health Care Finance Association)
• Finding Books

Try these LC areas for browsing Nursing book and video titles.

RT  Nursing
RT49 Nursing assessment
RT61 Home Nursing, see also RT120.H65

RT81.5 Nursing Research
RT85  Nursing Ethics
RT89 Nursing Administration
RT97  Public Health Nursing
RT98 Community Health Nursing
 

Nursing specialties are cataloged as follows:

RJ245+  Pediatric Nursing
RC954  Geriatric Nursing
RC266  Cancer Nursing
RC674  Cardiovascular Nursing
RE88, RF52.5  Otolaryngological Nursing
RC735.5, RL125  Respiratory Nursing
RG105   Gynecological Nursing
RG951  Maternal Nursing
RC350.5 Neurological Nursing
RG951  Obstetrical Nursing
RC440   Psychiatric Nursing
RJ247  School Nursing
RD99+  Surgical Nursing
RD753 Orthopedic Nursing