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Introduction

This is a guide to some of the most important electronic resources in the field of Nursing. Contact the Faculty Liaison Librarian for more information and assistance.

Citing References

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APA Style: A reference guide from the Purdue University.

Vancouver Style: A reference guide from the University of Auckland Library

Citing Drug Databases in AMA Style: A reference guide from the MGH Institute of Health Professions

Citing Drug Databases in Vancouver Style: A reference guide from the Wilkes University Library

Citing Database Topics:DynaMed Plus, Lexicomp, Micromedex, & UpToDate

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Key E-Resources

Major Databases

Nursing Clinical Skills Databases

Consult the following databases for step-by-step guides of nursing procedures and skills in a variety of specialty settings.

Clinical Skills
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Clinical Skills is a web-based platform that brings over 1,200 evidence-based skills and procedures (with specialties) of nursing skills. For each skill, there are quick sheet, test and demo to facilitate learning and teaching.
ClinicalKey for Nursing
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ClinicalKey for Nursing provides nurses with the rapidly access peer reviewed information for clinical decision including evidence-based nursing monographs, books, journals, practice guidelines, patient education and core measures with nursing recommendations.
Dynamic Health
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Dynamic Health is a comprehensive collection of evidence-based skills content and corresponding skills checklists intended to help nurses and allied health professionals develop critical clinical, transcultural and patient instruction skills
JoVE Science Education: Nursing Skills
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This collection demonstrates medication preparation and administration, with videos highlighting important safety checks, considerations, dosage calculations, and common mistakes associated with improper medication administration.
Lippincott Advisor
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Lippincott Advisor is a collection of 3,500+ evidence-based entries that cover clinical diagnosis and treatment, nurse care plans, patient handouts and quality and safety initiatives.
Lippincott Procedures
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Lippincott procedures is a point-of-care procedure guide to help nursing professionals carry out effective care. Information includes required equipment, quick lists, patient instructions, skills checklist, competency tests and videos and images.

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Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination
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The Guide provides head-to-toe and systems-based video footage for standardized patients that represent various age groups, backgrounds, and conditions.

Journal of Medical Insight
Journal of Medical Insight is a surgical video journal / virtual operating theatre. It films and publishes surgical procedures performed by top teaching physicians.

JoVE Science Education: Physical Examinations I
Part I of the video series provides the foundation for performing physical examinations. It introduces several universal concepts such as inspection, palpation, percussion, auscultation, together with pulmonary and cardiovascular physical exam techniques.
JoVE Science Education: Physical Examinations II
Part II of the video series provides more specialized examination techniques. It covers HEENT exams, abdominal exams and male & female specific structure exams.
JoVE Science Education: Physical Examinations III
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Nursing Assessment in Video
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This assessment series of training videos provides nursing students hands-on demonstrations and step-by-step instructions in key assessment areas by experts. The video gives them a reliable way to observe nuanced procedures and patient interactions before practicing in a clinical setting.
Nursing Education in Video
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It is an online collection of videos created specifically for the education and training of nurses, nursing assistants, and other healthcare workers.Major subjects include airway management, anatomy and physiology, anxiety disorders, basic clinical skills, cardiology, communications, compliance issues, continuous quality improvement, dietary/nutrition, legal documentation.

Drugs

AHFS Drug Information
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Covers tens of thousands of individual drug products, monographs include: drug interactions; adverse reactions; toxicity; therapeutic perspective; specific dosage and administration information; preparations, chemistry, and stability; pharmacology and pharmacokinetics; contraindications; and more.
British National Formulary
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Coverage: latest ed.
Provides up-to-date guidance on selection, prescribing, dispensing and administration of medicines and details all medicines that are generally prescribed in the UK, with special reference to their uses, precautions, contra-indications, side-effects, dosage and relative costs.
British National Formulary for Children
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Coverage: Latest ed.
Provides up-to-date information on drug prescribing, dispensing, monitoring and administration for treating children.
British Pharmacopoeia
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British Pharmacopoeia collects quality standards for UK medicinal products and pharmaceutical substances. It is widely consulted by professionals involved in pharmaceutical research, manufacturing and testing.
Lexicomp Online
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Provides point-of-care drug and clinical information.
Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference
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A trusted source for medicines information for over 120 years, Martindale provides synopses of treatment for more than 660 diseases and includes over 6,300 drug monographs, 150,000 preparations, 40,700 references and 14,700 manufacturers.
Merck Index
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The Merk Index is a reference source for chemical, pharmaceutical and biomedical informaiton that contains more than 10,000 monographs, 28 supplemental tables and 450 organic name reactions. Each monograph provides descriptions of more than 18,000 substances across multiple scientific disciplines including drugs for humans and animals, organic chemicals used in research and manufacturing, plants and traditional medicines, natural products, agricultural chemicals, food additives and fragrances.
Micromedex Solutions
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Provides a wide range of databases tailored to meet the needs of healthcare professionals, including information related to drugs, acute care, toxicology, diseases and patient education. Patient education materials are included in the CareNotes module of MICROMEDEX.
Natural Medicines
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Provides high-quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative medicine including dietary supplements and integrative therapies.
Stockley's Drug Interactions
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Provides the busy healthcare professionals with quick and easy access to clinically relevant, evaluated, and evidence-based information on interactions between therapeutic drugs, proprietary medicines, herbal medicines, foods, drinks, pesticides and drugs of abuse.
USP-NF Online
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中國中醫葯數據庫檢索系統
涵蓋︰1984至今
目前資料庫總數40餘個，資料總量約110萬條，並有兩個英文資料庫，包括中醫藥期刊文獻資料庫及中國中藥資料庫。

Anatomy & Physiology

Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy
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The title contains about 330 videos of real human anatomic specimens in their natural colors. The videos show complex structures step by step in order to provide a foundation for understanding anatomical structure and function.
Anatomy.tv (Primal Pictures)
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It features more than 6,500 highly accurate three-dimensional anatomy models that illustrate function, biomechanics, and surgical procedures. Clinical videos and textual descriptions by leading specialists supplement the animations and models. Interactive learning modules covering basic human anatomy focus on one or more areas of the body, so that students, physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals can uncover the information they want quickly and easily. Also included are a study guide, test bank, and an optional test management system to build custom quizzes for students.
Complete Anatomy
Complete Anatomy is an anatomy learning platform which provides 3D human anatomy models for viewing and manipulating body systems. It provides over 17,000 interactive structures including a living, beating, dissectible human heart in 3D model, online videos, radiological images, microscopic anatomy models and guided lectures.

BioDigital Human
The BioDigital Human is a virtual 3D body that visualizes human anatomy, disease and treatments in an interactive 3D web platform. Create an account before use.

Grant’s dissection videos
Organized by body region, each video includes narration by Dr. Alan Detton and on-screen labeling and text. The videos show students what they are expected to achieve in lab, the steps required for each dissection, and the information they need to learn for practical exams.
Visible Body
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Visual Body is a 3D human anatomy visualization tool providing detailed models of all body systems. The available modules are: Human Anatomy Atlas, Anatomy & Physiology, Physiology & Pathology, Muscle Premium and Skeleton Premium.

For details on how to install and use of various apps of Visible Body, please visit Visible Body LibGuides.

Pathology & Image

ExpertPath
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ExpertPath includes over 4,000 topics and 51,000 expert-selected images to provide comprehensive anatomic and clinical pathology decision support. Topics cover all areas of anatomic and clinical pathology and include key information such as differential lists, ancillary tests, image galleries, and specimen-handling protocols.
Medical Imaging in Video
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Medical Imaging in Video gives medical professionals a clear, direct way to observe highly technical imaging procedures before practicing them in a clinical setting.
SMART Imagebase
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The database provides a comprehensive collection of downloadable medical illustrations and animations in the fields of anatomy, physiology, biology and other life sciences.
STATdx
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STATdx is a diagnostic decision support system for radiology and includes over 4,300 diagnoses and 200,000 expert-selected images written by renowned radiologists in every specialty. Topics cover all radiology specialties and include key information such as differential lists, patient cases, image galleries, and normal imaging anatomy.
VisualDx
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VisualDx is a diagnostic decision support system designed by clinicians to aid medical professionals in the diagnosis of visually identifiable diseases. It provides instant access to specialist knowledge at the point of care, merging medical images with concise clinical text. As the clinician enters actual patient findings, VisualDx creates a visual differential diagnosis. VisualDx Mobile is available as native iPhone, iPad, and Android apps.

EBM & Systematic Reviews

Clinical Trials Registry

Databases for Evidence-Based Practice / Systematic Review (SR)

AHRQ EPC Evidence-Based Reports
The reports from Evidence-based Practice Centers of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality provide comprehensive, science-based information on common, costly medical conditions and new health care technologies and strategies.
BMJ Best Practice
Provides decision support through a step-by-step approach that is structured around patient consultation, covering diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention.
Cochrane Interactive Learning
Cochrane Interactive Learning is an online course which provides over 10 hours of self-directed learning on the complete systematic review process for both new and experienced review authors.
Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
Covidence
Covidence is a web based tool that can help streamline and speed up the primary screening and data extraction processes when conducting systematic reviews.
Essential Evidence Plus
It is a comprehensive clinical decision support system that integrates information on 9,000 diagnoses into healthcare professionals’ clinical workflows.
JBI COnNect+ (Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database) via OvidSP
JBI COnNECT+ (Clinical Online Network of Evidence for Care and Therapeutics) is a web-based system that integrates resources and tools to assist health care workers make evidence-based informed clinical decisions about the care and treatment of their patients.
Lippincott Advisor
Lippincott Advisor is a collection of 3,500+ evidence-based entries that cover clinical diagnosis and treatment, nurse care plans, patient handouts and quality and safety initiatives.
National Guideline Clearinghouse
The National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) is a publicly available database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents.
Nursing Reference Center Plus
Nursing Reference Center Plus provides nursing students and educators about evidence-based medicine and nursing best practices.
PubMed Clinical Queries
PubMed Clinical Queries are designed to help users filter search results to high quality evidence-based clinical publications.
Trip Database
The Trip search system has a collection of high quality of secondary evidence ranging from systematic reviews and clinical guidelines to evidence-based synopses and clinical Q&As.
UpToDate (On Campus Access Only)
Up-to-date is an evidence-based, peer-reviewed clinical resource to assist with diagnosis and treatment by providing specific answers to clinical questions, increasing users’ clinical knowledge and improving patient care

Tools / News

Calculators

ClinicalKey Calculators

Calculators from ClinicalKey which includes Drug Calculators, Clinical Criteria/Decision Trees Calculators, Medical Calculators and Unit Conversions Calculators.

Dynamed Calculators

DynaMed Calculators provide a series of calculators including medical equations, clinical criteria, decision trees, statistics calculators, units and dose convertors, etc. Click “Calculators” at the top of the menu bar to access.

Dictionary/Encyclopedia

Stedman's Online

Features more than 100,000 medical terms and definitions from the Stedman's Medical Dictionary with images and videos.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Provides encyclopedias, almanacs and reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Learning Module

BMJ Learning

An innovative learning resource that allows users to choose from its 300 interactive evidence based modules with real life case scenarios to test your skills and improve your learning.

News

South China Morning Post (ProQuest International Newsstream)

Electronic version of the print newspaper, from 1993 to current.

收錄中國大陸、臺灣、香港、澳門出版的報章、雜誌、刊物和新聞通訊社的資訊。

South China Morning Post

Test & Instruments are tools that aid researchers in the assessment of research participants, clients, or patients.

Databases

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works

Contains real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and its treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material.

Health and Psychosocial Instruments

Provides access to questionnaires, interview schedules, coding schemes/ manuals, tests in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.

Mental Measurements Yearbook

Contains reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology and related areas.

APA PsycTESTS

PsycTESTS is a research database providing downloadable access to some psychological tests, measures, scales, and other assessments as well as descriptive and administrative information.

Books

Health Measurement Scales: A practical guide to their development and use 5th Ed by David L. Streiner; Geoffrey R. Norman; John Cairney
ISBN: 9780199685219
Publication Date: 2015-01-02
Instruments for clinical health-care research by Marilyn Frank-Stromborg; Sharon Olsen
ISBN: 0763722529
Publication Date: 2003-11-30
Measurement in Health Behavior: Methods for Research and Evaluation by Colleen Konicki Diiorio
ISBN: 9780787970970
Publication Date: 2005-11-04
Measurement in Nursing and Health Research, 5th Ed by Carolyn Waltz (Editor); Ora Lea Strickland (Editor); Elizabeth Lenz (Editor)
ISBN: 9780826170613
Publication Date: 2016-07-28
The measurement of affect, mood, and emotion : a guide for health-behavioral research by Panteleimon Ekkekakis; James A. Russell (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781107011007
Publication Date: 2013-02-21
Measuring Health: A Guide to Rating Scales and Questionnaires 3rd Ed by Ian McDowell
ISBN: 9780195165678
Publication Date: 2006-03-09

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