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Professional Nursing Standards and Guidelines

Ackley, B., & Ladwig, G. (2008). Nursing diagnosis handbook: An evidence-based guide to planning care (8th ed.). Edinburgh: Elsivier Mosby. Call number Ref RT48.6.A35 2008.

American Association of Colleges of Nursing. (1998). The essentials of Baccalaureate education for professional nursing practice. Washington, D.C.: AACN. Retrieved from http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Education/pdf/BaccEssentials98.pdf

American Nurses Association. (2004). Nursing: Scope and standards of practice. Washington, D.C.: ANA. Call number Ref RT85.5.A47 2004.

American Nurses Association. (2001). Code of ethics for nurses with interpretative statements. Silver Springs, MD: American Nurses Publishing. Retrieved from http://nursingworld.org/ethics/code/protected_nwcoe813.htm Print format, call number Ref RT85.C63 2001.

Indiana State Board of Nursing. (2008). Compilation of the Indiana Code and Indiana Amdinistrative Code. Indianapolis: Author. Retrieved from http://www.in.gov/pla/files/ISBN_2008_EDITION.pdf

 

Places to Begin: Reference Resources

2007 Mosby's Nursing Drug Reference   Ref RM301.12 .M67 2007
Churchill Livingstone’s Dictionary of Nursing   e-Book 2006
Control of Communicable Diseases Manual   Ref RA643 .C65 2004
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-IV-TR   Ref RC455.2 .C4 D536 2000
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary   e-Book 2003
Encyclopedia of Bioethics   Ref QH332.E52 2004
Encyclopedia of Nursing Research   Ref RT81.5 .E53 2006
Historical Encyclopedia of Nursing   Ref RT31 .S66 1999
Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice   Ref RT51 .B78 2001
Mosby's Medical, Nursing, & Allied Health Dictionary   Ref R121 .M89 2002
Nurse's Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests   e-Book 2003
Nurse's Legal Handbook   Ref RT86.73 N855 2004
Nursing Diagnosis Handbook : an Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care   Ref RT48.6 .A35 2008

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Call Numbers to Browse

Many nursing resources are shelved in the “R” area.

Note that many subjects important to nursing are not necessarily just in the RT (nursing) class. For instance the subclass RE, or ophthalmology, includes diseases of the eye and ophthalmic nursing.
R Medicine   RS Pharmacy and medicine
RA Public Aspects of Medicine/Nursing   RT Nursing
RB Pathology   Q Science (General)
RC Internal Medicine   QD Chemistry
RD Surgery   QH Natural History – Biology
RE Ophthalmology  
QM Human anatomy
RF Otorhinolaryngology   QP Physiology
RG Gynecology and Obstetrics   QR Microbiology
RJ Pediatrics   B Philosophy (General)
RK Dentistry   BF Psychology
RL Dermatology   BJ Ethics
RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology    

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Subject Headings

Examples of words you can use to search the library catalog.

Combine Subject Term...

Nursing   Health
Medicine   Pediatric
Gerontology or Geriatric   Public health
Psychology   AIDS
Ethics   Surgery
Drugs  
…Etc
Diseases    

With another term...

(Including one of these terms will steer your search towards reference materials)

Encyclopedias   Dictionaries
Manuals   Handbooks

... or add a focusing term

(Including one of these kinds of terms may narrow your search and may include non-reference materials)

Holistic   Adolescent
Intravenous   Philosophy
Alternative   Ambulatory
Evidence-based   Care plans
    …Etc.
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Nursing Databases  

Places to Start

  • Health Sciences Databases from EBSCO search in one or more of the following EBSCO databases
    • CINAHL Full Text
    • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
    • MEDLINE
    • Health Source - Consumer Edition
    • Biomedical Reference Collection
    • Health Business FullTEXT

Other Places to Look

  • Lexis-Nexis Academic
  • PsycINFO
  • PsycArticles: American Psychological Association journals, full text
  • PLoS : Public Library of Science. Full-text on-line journals: Biology, Medicine, Computation Biology, Genetics, Pathogens. Click on "PLoS Journals" to search each journal individually.
  • Project MUSE: See sections on Medicine & Health, and Science.
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Finding Journal Articles  

Articles published in scholarly, or peer-reviewed publications are frequently the most up-to-date source of reliable information for your academic work.

Locating a journal article is usually a 2-step process: (1) identifying an article with the information you want and (2) locating the periodical in which that article appears.

Identifying an article: Search in databases appropriate for your subject area. Find articles that apply to your research question.

Locating the periodical: Check the Good Library catalog or Citation Linker. If the library does not have the journal, you may request the article through Interlibrary Loan.

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Web Resources

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Evidence-based practice reports, technology assessments, surveys, research newsletters. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.

AIDS Education Global Information System (AEGIS) Arguably the most comprehensive HIV-related Web site on the Internet.

American Nurses Association (includes Online Journal of Issues in Nursing and The American Nurse )

Bioethics.net Promotes scholarly and public understanding of the ethical, legal, social, and public policy implications of advances in medicine. Sponsored by the Penn Center.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Free Medical Journals: High quality medical and biomedical journals. Note how long before the publication becomes free online (generally 0-2 years). Links in the left frame allow sorting by subject area.

Healthy People 2010 Sponsored by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.

HIV InSite Knowledge Base: continually updated and comprehensive

Joanna Briggs Institute Best Practice Information Sheets.

Library of Congress Health & Medicine Subject Guide

National Center for Health Statistics from the CDC

National Institutes of Health

National League for Nursing

National Library of Medicine includes links to MedLine and PubMed

Nutrition Source from Dept. of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Recommendations include references to peer-reviewed articles.

Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008 ed., from U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. Find out the job outlook and prospective earnings of registered nurses.

PubMed: One may limit searches to a subset of Nursing journals. Service of the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

Transcultural and Multicultural Health Links Multicultural health resources including resources on religious groups and ethnic groups.

UNICEF: Includes access to UNICEF publications.

Virtual Pediatric Hospital: "A digital library of pediatric information" for both health care providers & patients

World Health Organization

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Updated 27-Oct-2009 SWH