Nursing Resources
Page Contents
Journal Articles
Other Types of Research Materials
Books
Obtaining Items not Held at CSC (Interlibrary Loan)
Selected World Wide Web Sites
APA Style Manual
Journal Articles
To find journal articles on nursing topics, use an index from the list below. Some indexes contain the full text of a journal article while others provide a citation or abstract of the article.
CINAHLCINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
CINAHL is the main index to journal articles in nursing and allied health fields. With coverage from 1982- present, CINAHL provides access to journal articles, book chapters, research instruments, guidelines and many other publications.
See Guide for Searching CINAHL
See Nursing Research Articles online tutorial
See CINAHL-Finding Review Articles Demo
MEDLINE
MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Coverage begins in 1966. Two versions of MEDLINE are available: MEDLINE from EBSCO and MEDLINE from PubMed
See Guide for Searching Medline
Other journal indexes that may be helpful:
Alt Health Watch
Alt Health Watch is a full-text database related to complementary and alternative approaches to health. In-depth coverage of scholarly, professional, and consumer journals.
See Guide for Searching Alt HealthWatch
Other Types of Publications
Evidence Based Practice
The Cochrane Library consists of several databases providing evidence of the effectiveness of various treatments and protocols. The full text of evidence based reviews and publications are updated periodically by scientists and researchers of the Cochrane Collaborative Review Groups. See the Guide for searching the Cochrane Library for search help. See also, SCU's help page devoted to Evidence Based Practice Resources.
Dissertations and Theses
Abstracts of master's theses and doctoral dissertations are available in a database called Dissertations on the FirstSearch system. Most theses and dissertations can be borrowed via interlibrary loan.
Connect to FirstSearch (password required), then select Dissertations from the list of databases. See the FirstSearch guide.
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Books
Reference Books
Black's Medical Dictionary Online
Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary Online
CLICnet
The online catalog for book holdings of SCU Libraries and 7 other local private colleges in the CLIC consortium.
Connect to CLICnet.
WorldCat
WorldCat on FirstSearch: Search for books, dissertations and other materials in libraries around the world.
See the FirstSearch guide.
Obtaining Items not Held at SCU
Once you've found citations or abstracts, locate articles by
Use the Check for fulltext at St. Kates option within databases or Journals A to Z to see if the St. Catherine University subscribes to the needed journal. Journals A to Z is an alphabetical list of the holdings (print and electronic) of the St. Kate's Libraries.
If the SCU Libraries don't subscribe (or if the journal is held at the other campus library), you may request it through interlibrary loan. Use the online ILL request form to obtain a copy of an article. Only current SCU students, faculty and staff may use interlibrary loan.
Course Reserves
Both print and electronic reserves are frequently used in courses at SCU. A list of items on reserve (print or electronic) is available by searching Reserves on CLICnet. See Reserves web page for details.
Web Resources
In addition to using search engines to retrieve information from the web, here are some Nursing site lists to explore.
Hardin MD (www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/)
A meta-directory (directory of site lists) from the University of Iowa Hardin Library. This site ranks and rates sites by size and quality and offers a broad array of links to nursing practice issues, care plans and various types of nursing.
Health Science Library Nursing Links (http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/dokuwiki/hslwiki/doku.php?id=nursing_sites)
From the State University of New York at Buffalo, an excellent collection of links for various nursing sites, including sites about nursing theorists, professional associations, advanced practice and evidence based nursing.
Minnesota Board of Nursing (http://www.nursingboard.state.mn.us)
The state agency responsible for licensing nurses and regulating the practice of nursing. The page includes fulltext of the Nursing Practice Act and the Board of Nursing Rules.
Nursing World (http://www.nursingworld.org)
The official web page of the American Nursing Association with links to ANA publications, position statements, CE opportunities, and other professional issues and concerns.
APA Style
The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association is often used as a guide for writing and citing sources. A current copy of the manual is located in the reference collection (REF BF76.6 .P83 2009). For a short guide to citing common publication types, see APA Guidelines for Citing Sources.