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Nursing and Allied Health: Nursing Resources: Books, Journals and Articles

Learn more about how to use library resources to search for clinical information.

How to use library resources to searcch for clinical information

The Nursing Resources guide is designed for nurses interested in research, updating best practices, and increasing professional knowledge. This guide contains many nursing specific resources, including databases, e-books, and e-journals

E-Book Collections

MCW Libraries provides access to hundreds of electronic books including nursing management and practice textbooks.

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  • Ebook CentraleBooks ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health
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    Growing multidisciplinary e-book collection from leading academic publishers. Login to eBooks Full Text (EBSCO)Click on the Sign In or Bookshelf tabs and use your off-campus access login credentials to access your personal Ebook Central bookshelf account and special features.
     
    Ebook CentraleBooks EBSCO
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    Growing multidisciplinary e-book collection from leading academic publishers. Lobin to eBooks Full Text (EBSCO)Click on the Sign In or Bookshelf tabs and use your off-campus access login credentials to access your personal Ebook Central bookshelf account and special features.

Evidence Based Practice Databases

 

Use the following citation databases and other tools to find journal articles including research and peer-reviewed articles. Click here and Click Nursing & Allied Health, to see a complete list of NSU databases and resources.

  • Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
    Collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, and a seventh database that provides information about Cochrane groups. (HTA).
     
  • Ovid MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
    Search journal citations and abstracts for biomedical literature published worldwide. Ovid, like PubMed, is a search interface to MEDLINE. Includes links to MCW Libraries' journal subscriptions.
     
     
  • Science Direct This link opens in a new windowD
    Subscription includes Science Direct (1998-present). Indexes Life Science of the world's leading scientific and technical journals across 150 disciplines. Nursing and Allied Health covers 1,041 publications. Medicine covers 7,067 publications. Pharmacology, toxicology and pharmaceutical science covers 1,223 publications. Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine covers 425 publications. Cited Reference Searching.
     
     
    CINAHL Plus with Full-Text
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    Search journal citations and abstracts for biomedical literature published worldwide. CINAHL like PubMed, is a search interface to MEDLINE as well as other non-peer reviewed literature. Includes full-text links to NSU Libraries' journal subscriptions and links to 393 non-subscription journals. This list covers all CINAHL Plus journal titles
     

 

Whether it's supporting a clinical research study or providing faculty with instructional multimedia content to help students connect theory to practice, librarians rely on the ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Database for its diverse mix of scholarly literature, clinical training videos, reference materials, and evidence-based resources, including dissertations and systematic reviews. This database is uniquely suited for students, instructors, researchers, and healthcare professionals. ProQuest covers 700+ medical journals and 350+ training videos. ProQuest's Nursing and Allied Health Premium journal titles

Additional Databases & Resources