Nursing
Find Articles in Nursing
and Health
Find Evidence Based Practice Resources
Find Facts about Drugs and Drug Interactions
Find Images
Selected Web Resources
Find Information about Legislation
Find Health-Related Statistics
Find Tests, Measures, Research Assessment Tools or Instruments
PDA and Smartphone Resources
Psychology Resources (links to the Psychology Research Guide)
Resources for Nurse Authors
Finding Articles in Nursing and Health
CINAHL (Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
The most comprehensive tool for finding nursing literature:
journal articles, book chapters, care plans, case studies, and
more. 1982-present.
CINAHL
Tutorial (PowerPoint format)
A guide on how to use the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature database.
MEDLINE via PubMed
Index of biomedical literature that includes a nursing journals limit. 1950-present.
Journals@OVID
Includes the full text for 20 nursing journals. Bibliographic
information is available for additional publications.
HaPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments)
Resource for locating information on assessment tools, measures,
instruments.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Access selected scholarly full text articles focusing on health sciences disciplines and clinical care.
PsycInfo
Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. 1967-present. Historical section: 1872-1966.
Cochrane Library
Full text reviews of research on the effects of health care
interventions.
Social Sciences Citation Index
Includes citations and abstracts in scholarly journals for articles on disciplines in the social sciences as well as nursing. Includes each article's cited reference list. You can also search forward from a known citation (get a list of articles that have cited a previously published article) and search Science Citation Index-Expanded simultaneously.
Find Facts about Drugs and Drug Interactions
Mosby's Drug Consult
Access through
MDConsult.
Find drugs alphabetically, by FDA-Class, by indication, etc.
Also includes normal values of standard laboratory and function
tests.
Clinical Pharmacology
Database of U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs, includes patient education materials.
Find Images
Images.MD
Over 50,000 medical images suitable for use in classroom presentations.
Selected Web Resources
The Nursing Theory Page, Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science
A collaborative effort by an international group interested
in developing a collection of resources about nursing theories
throughout the world. Includes
literature
search tips and biographical information about the site's
authors.
Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library (from Sigma Theta Tau International)
Through the library’s complimentary Registry of Nursing Research database, individuals have access to search study abstracts and conference abstracts. Primary investigators can be contacted for more information about how to obtain full-text versions of their study.
Find Information about Legislation
For tips on legal research, see
Social Welfare Policies and Programs: A Guide to Library and Internet Resources by Social Sciences and Humanities Team Leader Karen Kimber.
Although originally developed for SW 721, this guide provides an overview of basic legal research also useful to students in nursing health policy courses.
Find Health-Related Statistics
Health Statistics
Lists major online and print sources for finding statistics on morbidity and mortality, minority health, medical education, and the health professions. Covers national, international, and Ohio sources.
Find Tests, Measures, Research/Assessment Tools or Instruments
Tests and Measures:
Library and Internet Resources
Lists major print and online resources for finding information about these tools and how to obtain copies of the actual instruments.
