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Welcome to Richter Library's Resource Guide
for Nursing and Health Studies!

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This guide is a great tool for finding information for research, collecting articles for classes, and broadening your knowledge of Nursing and Health Studies. Each tab contains current and relevent resources for assisting you in collecting the best information for your project, interest, or research.

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Clinical Care & Research Databases

Visual & Physical Exam Databases

Bates Visual Guide to Physical Examination
Now in its 5th edition and featuring completely reshot content and new clinical skills videos, Bates Visual Guide delivers head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques for the (Advanced) Assessment or Introduction to Clinical Medicine course. The site features more than 8 hours of video content.

VisualDx
VisualDx aids in the identification of dermatologic, infectious, genetic, metabolic, nutritional and occupational diseases, benign and malignant growths, drug-induced conditions, and other injuries. Engineered for use at the point of care, the VisualDx system allows physicians to search by diagnosis, build a patient-specific differential, or look up drug-induced adverse reactions by medication. The database covers more than 1,300 pediatric and adult conditions represented by nearly 30,000 images.

Image Databases

Harden Image Library
Freely available; all images in public domain.

Parasite Image Library
From the CDC

ScienceDirect
Science Direct is a full text database offering journals and books from the leading scholarly publisher Elsevier. It has particular strengths in medicine and mathmatics, but its nine million articles cover a wide range of scientific topics. The collection stretches back to 1823 and includes prominent publications including The Lancet, Cell and Tetrahedron.

ScienceDirect hosts over 2,500 journals and more than 33,000 books—over 13 million peer-reviewed publications (including Open Access journals) in science, technical information, and health. Note Nursing journals in Column 3 Health Sciences.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Public Health Image Library (PHIL)
Available images from the CDC -- most images in public domain.

Research Databases

CINAHL Plus
Primary index to the international literature of nursing and health.

PubMed
Provides access to citations for biomedical articles from Medline and life science journals. Citations may include links to full-text articles.

PsycINFO
Abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, in behavioral science and mental health. Citations and summaries date back to early 1800s; journal coverage from 1887 to present. From the American Psychological Association.

PsycARTICLES
A source for full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology.

Web of Science Citation Indexes
Web of Science, published by Thomson Reuters, is a multi-disciplinary database that provides integrated access to over 8,000 key research journals indexed in: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

Embase
Embase is a comprehensive biomedical literature database that provides over 30 million abstracts and indices from published, peer-reviewed literature, in-press publications and conferences covering the most important international biomedical literature from 1947 to the present day.

Cochrane Library
Collection of health databases providing independent evidence to inform clinical treatment decisions and other health related decisions.

Drug Information

Micromedex
Micromedex Solutions provide hospitals and healthcare providers with a single source of clinical information from need-to-know drug, pediatric, disease, lab, and toxicology information to comprehensive resources for patient and consumer education. Hospitals can use Micromedex evidence and real-time clinical surveillance to proactively find and administer preventative care to high-risk patients to help prevent or mitigate Avoidable Drug Events, Hospital-Acquired Infections, and more.

Toxnet
Collection of toxicology and environmental health databases, hazardous chemicals and toxic releases. From the U.S. National Library of Medicine

NLM Drug Information Portal
This database, sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, provides information on over 78 thousand drugs.

Clinical Care Databases

UpToDate
UpToDate is an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support resource combining broad coverage of adult primary care, subspecialty internal medicine, ob/gyn, general surgery and pediatrics. Contains over 77,000 pages of original, peer-reviewed text that are written, reviewed and continuously updated by over 5,100 physicians to ensure that the content remains current. The expert faculty synthesizes the most recent medical information in order to provide users with specific, practical, evidence-based recommendations for diagnosis and treatment that have been proven to improve patient care and quality.

DynaMed
DynaMed is the next-generation clinical reference tool physicians can rely on for fast, easy access to point-of-care decision support. Written by a team of specialized physicians and researchers, content is updated several times daily to include information on the latest evidence-based research, providing practice-changing answers to clinical questions with optimized speed.

Joanna Briggs Institute Evidence Based Practice (EBP) Database
The Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database allows you to search simultaneously, a wide range of summarized and appraised evidence, to inform your practice. This comprehensive range of resources includes over 3,000 records across seven publication types: Evidence Based Recommended Practices, Evidence Summaries, Best Practice Information Sheets, Systematic Reviews, Consumer Information Sheets, Systematic Review Protocols, and Technical Reports.

Access Medicine
Include's Harrison's Online and Goodman and Gilman's Pharmacology. McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine.com is an innovative online resource that provides students, residents, clinicians, and researchers with instant answers to clinical questions from the most trusted sources. Updated daily and expanded continuously, Access Medicine is designed for direct access to the information necessary for completing evaluations, diagnoses, case management decisions, conducting research, medical education, or self-assessment and board review.

ClinicalKey Flex
ClinicalKey is a clinical search engine that supports clinical decisions by making it easier to find and apply relevant knowledge.

uSearch

eBook Collections

AccessMedicine Books

ClinicalKey eBooks

Journals@Ovid LWW Total Access Collection

R2 Digital Library

eBook Collection (EBSCOHost)

ebook Central (ProQuest)

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Federal Health Statistics

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL (CDC)

Data & Statistics
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
Health United States
Injury Prevention & Control (Prescription drug overdose, child abuse, sexual violence, etc.)
HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention Atlas (NCHHSTP)
NCHHSTP Atlas

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH (NIH)

National Institutes of Health (NIH) from the Department of Health and Human Services
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES (HHS)

OTHER RESOURCES

Population and General Statistics

Statista is partially a business site, but offers excellent quantitative data, statistics and demographics (US and International) and health information.

Global

eldis
Global Public Health [UM Subject Guide]
Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
UNICEF Data - Child Statistics
World Bank
WHO: Data

Statistics from Associations

What is Evidence Based Medicine?

Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) is the conscientious, explicit, judicious and reasonable use of modern, best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. EBM integrates clinical experience and patient values with the best available research information. (David Sackett, 1997).

Evidence-Based Public Health is defined as the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of the current best evidence in making decisions about the care of communities and populations in the domain of health protection, disease prevention, health maintenance and improvement (health promotion). It is the process of systematically finding, appraising, and using contemporaneous research findings as the basis for decisions in public health." (M. Jenicek (1997)

EBP & EBM Websites & PDFs

Some very helpful Web resources for understanding EBP, linking types of Clinical Questions to types of Design Studies. Each one includes a Critical Appraisal tab for "identifying the strengths and weaknesses of a research article in order to assess the usefulness and validity of research findings." (Medscape).

Duke University | Introduction to Evidence Based Practice
Duke University Medical Center Library & the Health Sciences Library UNC-Chapel Hill. Use as a tutorial or an introductory reading of the principles of EBP.
Mercer University School of Medicine | EBM Point of Care Resources (PDF)
The pdf provides content summary, features of various, when to use EBM resources.
Georgetown University | Searching Medline (PubMed) by Question & Study Type
GU's Dahlgren Memorial Library offers this excellent guide for using limiters to search the Medline database (which makes up 90% of PubMed) by type of clinical question and study design. Worth a look.
"Useful Links"

Point of Care Tools

Clinical Questions, Study Design, & EBM Resource

Finding good resources involves not only selecting appropriate databases and websites, but also type of study design. Different study designs produce different levels of evidence are organzied hierarchically. See blue pyramid and note that study designs at the top, e.g., meta analysis, systematic review offer the highest level of evidence.

Critically Examining the Literature & Appraising the Evidence

How to Critically Appraise an Article [Medscape]
Critical Appraisal Skill Programme (CASP)
Critical Appraisal Worksheets [Duke University Medical Center Library]
Evidence-Based Practice, Step by Step [American Journal of Nursing]
Evidence Appraisal [Winona State University]
Evidence Updates from BMJ

Finding and using research evidence Summary Sheet

Guidelines in Databases

CINAHL
1) On top bar, click on Evidence Based Care Sheets and Quick Lessons type in the topic, condition, or procedure.
2) In Advanced Search, type the topic, then select Publication Type and select Practice Guidelines in the limiter section,

Clinical Key
Click on Guidelines menu next to the search box at the top. Search by organization name, specialty, or topic.

PubMed
1) Click on Additional Filters
2) Select Practice Guidelines and it will appear under Article Type.
3) Run search and click on the Practice Guideline filter

DynaMed or UpToDate
1) Type in condition, procedure, or etc. in the search box
2) Select one of the results
3) On the left handside under Topic Outline you will find Guidelines

Clinical Practice Guidelines

Nursing History Online

Francis Liberty, Army Nurse Corps: Audio, video and text of interviews of Francis Liberty which chronicle her service in World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam War. Includes escaping from a downed helicopter (with sense of humor intact).

Nurses in the U.S. Navy: Bibliography and Sources: Includes oral histories from WWII Navy nurses (nurse experience during Pearl Harbor attack, Navy hospital nurse, nurse prisoner of war, nurse serving in Philippines), historical photos and Uniform Regulation, Navy Nurse Corps, 1917.

Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics: An online exhibit from Harvard University Libraries' Open Collections Program, it tracks several outbreaks of contagious diseases using primary documentation. Highly recommended for its historical focus.

Black Nurses in History: A Bibliography and Guide to Web Resources: Originally created by Sharon Whitfield at CMSRU Library, this guide hosts a list of articles, books, and websites dedicated to prominent black nurses in history.

American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN): A professional organization dedicated to the importance and the understanding of the history of nursing.

Nurse Edith Cavell (1865-1915): A Norfolk Heroine: A website dedicated to Nurse Edith Cavell, a British nurse known for saving many lives of soldiers during World War I.

Nursing History Books

Bibliography adapted from Celebrating Nursing History : What to Keep by Margaret "Peg" Allen. The list can be found at the Nursing and Allied Health Resource Section of the Medical Library Association.