LibGuides: NURS 427: Nursing Leadership and Transition Into Practice

Xan Goodman, Nursing, Integrated Health Sciences & Public Health Librarian

Xan Goodman, SON, IHS, SPH, SDM Health Sciences Librarian

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4505 S. Maryland Parkway
Las Vegas, NV 89154
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702-895-2233

Subjects: Allied Health, Health Sciences, Kinesiology, Nursing, Nutrition

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Dudley Knox Library, APA 7th edition guide
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Nursing & Related Databases

This list of resources contains links to databases, journal articles and other research materials about nursing.

Alt-HealthWatch
Articles about complementary and alternative medicine.
Update frequency: quarterly
Alt Health Watch offers abstracts or full text of nearly 50,000 articles from over 160 international, peer-reviewed, and professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings, and association and consumer newsletters about complementary and alternative medicine. Covers such areas of alternative medicine as acupuncture, chiropractic, aromatherapy, naturopathy, homeopathy, osteopathy, and numerous cross-cultural therapies.
APA PsycINFO 1887-Current
1800-
The American Psychological Association's international psychology database indexes journal articles, books and dissertations.
Update frequency: Updated monthly
PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others.
CINAHL
Good for: Researching nursing and allied health topics.
Contains: Index of nursing and allied health literature.
Dates covered: 1982-present.
Cochrane Library
Good for: Finding evidence-based medicine reviews and information.
Contains: Collection of evidence-based medicine databases.
Education Full Text
Good for: Researching education topics.
Contains: Journal articles.
Dates covered: 1996-present.
Embase
Embase is an index to scholarly articles in medicine, biomedical sciences, and allied health subjects.
Embase content is indexed using a specialized thesaurus, Emtree, that includes biomedical, chemical, and drug terms. There is a special focus on drugs and devices.
Gale OneFile: Nursing and Allied Health
Good for: Supporting specialized care, treatment, and patient management.
Contains: Journal articles cited in CINAHL and other resources.
Health and medical dictionaries in Credo Reference
Health and medical dictionaries.
Includes Collins Dictionary of Medicine, Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations, Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, Mosby's Dental Dictionary, Mosby's Dictionary of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Mosby's Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary, Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary, Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary and more.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
1985-present
An index to about 850 journals in health sciences.
Nursing and allied health coverage is especially strong. Also includes Lexi-PAL Drug Guide.
Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database
Comprehensive range of resources including literature reviews, recommended practices and procedures, information guideline sheets, comprehensive systematic reviews and protocols, consumer information sheets and technical reports from one of the world's foremost providers of evidence-based information.
Journals@Ovid
Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins (LWW) full text nursing journals with deep backfiles.
Journals@Ovid consists of two sets of nursing titles. One set has about 40 titles on nursing and health professions with content from 1997 to present. The Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins Legacy Archive Collection has 240 nursing titles with coverage ending after 1999.
LWW Health Library Collections
Published by Lippincott, these collections includes authoritative texts for Medical Education, Clerkship, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, Surgery, OBGYN, Oncology, Orthopedic Surgery and Psychiatry that are commonly used during undergraduate and medical education related programs, as well as cases, clinical skills, multimedia resources, and teaching and learning tools.
LWW Total Access Collection
All LWW journals available on OvidSP , including core journals and specialized resources in such areas as nursing and bioscience.
Medline via Web of Science
1950-
Over 15 million records from medical and life sciences journals.
Searching Medline on the Web of Knowledge platform allows you to also search several other databases at the same time.
PubMed
PubMed is a service of the US National Library of Medicine that provides free access to MEDLINE, the NLM database of indexed citations and abstracts to medical, nursing, dental, veterinary, health care, and preclinical sciences journal articles. It also includes additional selected life sciences journals not found in MEDLINE.
Scopus
1960-
Scopus is an index to peer-reviewed scientific, medical, technical, and social science literature.
Scopus also features a citation index, allowing you to find the papers that cite a specific piece of research.
Web of Science
1990-
Web of Science is a platform for Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Index, Journal Citation Reports, Biological Abstracts, MEDLINE, and Inspec.
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NURS 427: Nursing Leadership and Transition Into Practice

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