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Welcome to the Nursing & Health Sciences Guide. This guide will introduce you to resources that may help you with your assignments and projects. If you need assistance, please visit the Help page.
Research Databases
- Health Sciences Database Collection This link opens in a new window This link combines four health databases into a single EBSCO search: 1) CINAHL Complete, 2) Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, 3) MEDLINE Complete, and 4) SPORTDiscus with Full-Text.
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Nursing/Academic Edition also features the AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
- MEDLINE Complete This link opens in a new window Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more, dating back to 1857 with full-text back to 1865. MEDLINE Complete is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for over 1,800 journals.
- OVID Nursing and Health Sciences Journals This link opens in a new window Access over 70 peer-reviewed journals in nursing, exercise science, sports medicine, and other health professions.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window Full text access to more than 2,000 journals from the Elsevier Science journal collection.
Books & eBooks
- Library CatalogSearch the PennWest Libraries' online catalog to find physical items and eBooks.
- National Academies Press NAP publishes reports from the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council. You can download FREE PDFs for thousands of ebooks. Browse the topics from the menu.
- Credo Reference Nursing Titles Browse 54 titles related to Health and Medicine from Credo Reference.
Media Resources
- Registered Nurse RN Videos (YouTube) This YouTube channel provides free NCLEX reviews, skills, school tips, and career help for students and nurses.
- Academic Video Online (AVON) This link opens in a new window The database includes scholarly video material of virtually every video type: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, demonstrations, original and raw footage including tens of thousands of exclusive tiles. There are thousands of award-winning films, along with the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material.
Other Databases
- Health Source: Consumer Edition This link opens in a new window The richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics, with access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.
- Nursing Reference Center This link opens in a new window Provides a point-of-care resource intended for staff nurses, nurse administrators, nursing students, nurse faculty, and hospital librarians. It delivers the most recent clinical evidence and knowledge on conditions and diseases via a nursing-specific graphical interface.
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Search PennWest's collection of over 100 reference titles on the Credo platform, covering a variety of subjects in Humanities, Health & Medicine, and Environmental Science disciplines.
- OneSearch This link opens in a new window OneSearch combines most of the library's resources into a single database. Rather than search databases separately, you can do just "one search." OneSearch includes articles, ebooks and books, and more.
National Library of Medicine (NLM) Resources
- PubMed PubMed is the premier biomedical literature database and contains over 30 millions citations from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
- MedlinePlus MedlinePlus is an online health information resource for patients and their families and friends. It offers information on health conditions, medical tests, medications, dietary supplements, and healthy recipes from authoritative, reliable health websites.
- ClinicalTrials.gov ClinicalTrials.gov is a Web-based resource that provides patients, their family members, health care professionals, researchers, and the public with easy access to information on publicly and privately supported clinical studies on a wide range of diseases and conditions from around the world.
- Open-i Open-i enables search and retrieval of abstracts and images (including charts, graphs, clinical images, etc.) from the open source literature, and biomedical image collections. Open-i provides access to over 3.7 million images from about 1.2 million PubMed Central® articles; 7,470 chest x-rays with 3,955 radiology reports; 67,517 images from NLM History of Medicine collection; and 2,064 orthopedic illustrations.
Web Resources
- Nursing, History, and Health Care Presents historical information on the nursing profession and the provision of nursing care. Topics include: health care and nursing concerns, the role of nurses, nurse shortages, workplace problems, and public health issues.
- Pennsylvania Department of Health The official source for health information within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
- Science.gov Provides access to authoritative, selected science information from U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results. (Link goes to the Advanced Search. For the Basic search screen, click on their "Home" link in the menu.)
- State Health Facts Get up-to-date health data for all 50 states. Topics include: demographics, health, health policy, health coverage and financing, state legislation, and more. This easy-to-use site lets you download the data.
- BioMed Central Journals BMC has an evolving portfolio of high quality peer-reviewed journals covering a variety of subject fields on a single open access platform.
- National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) A division of NIH, the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) leads nursing research to solve pressing health challenges and inform practice and policy.
- American Nurses Association The American Nurses Association (ANA) is the premier organization representing the interests of the nation's 4 million registered nurses. ANA exists to advance the nursing profession by: Fostering high standards of nursing practice; Promoting a safe and ethical work environment; Bolstering the health and wellness of nurses; and Advocating on health care issues that affect nurses and the public.
- HealthData.gov HealthData.gov provides high value health data in an accessible manner for a variety of stakeholders.
- Writing for Nurses This guide to writing for nursing students covers the importance of writing well, common types of writing in nursing school, and common mistakes to avoid.