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Reference Sources

Encyclopedia & dictionary of medicine, nursing, and allied health In Print

Location: 1st Floor -- Reference Call No. 610.3 M61e 2003

Medical Reference books
Full text of The Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, The Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer, The Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders, and The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine.

Mosby's dictionary of medicine, nursing & health professions In Print

Location: 1st Floor -- Reference Call No. 610.3 M85d 2006

Study for the NCLEX

Testing & Education Reference Center
Practice exams and ebooks for the NCLEX-RN and NCLEX-PN.

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Create a user account in Peterson's Testing & Education Reference Center to save your work and view the ebooks.

Video Resources

Nursing Education in Video
Streaming video for education and training of nurses produced by Medcom. 350+ full-length videos.

Unique online collection of videos created specifically for the education and training of nurses, nursing assistants, and other healthcare workers.
Subject areas include: Anatomy and Physiology; Basic Clinical Skills; Cardiology; Communications; Gerontology; Infection Control; Legal Aspects of Nursing; Long Term Care; Medical Administration; Nursing Assistant Skills; Obstetrical Nursing; Pediatrics; Surgical Care; Wound Care
Title List (Excel file)

Sports Medicine and Exercise Science in Video
Streaming video for topics including athletic training, health promotion, physical education, kinesiology, exercise physiology, nutritional science, and more.

Nursing Information Sources

CINAHL Complete
Indexing and fulltext for nursing and allied fields, 1937 to present.
Cochrane Library
Medical reviews, clinical trials, and more.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Indexing and fulltext for scholarly journals and reference information.
MEDLINE with Full Text
Citations and abstracts for articles from international biomedical journals, 1949 to present, with full-text for 1,460 journals.

What's the difference between MEDLINE and PubMed?
Micromedex
Tools for drug ID and interaction, IV compatibility, toxicology, drug comparison and more. Turn off pop-up blocker for correct functioning.

Dosing, lab, and clinical calculators are available, along with patient drug and disease handouts in multiple languages and patient talking points for clinicians.
Mobile content available
Micromedex user guide (pdf)
Nursing & Allied Health Collection: Comprehensive (from EBSCO)
Online journals in nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, etc. 1975 to present.
Nursing & Allied Health Database (from ProQuest)
Training content, scholarly literature, and clinical reference materials for healthcare students and practitioners.

See the Nursing & Allied Health Database LibGuide for more information.
STAT!Ref (Medical and Nursing E-books)
22 nursing and medical e-books, including Stedman's Medical Dictionary and Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice. Limited to 10 or 15 concurrent users, depending on book title. Mobile App Available

Mobile App Instructions (pdf)
Access provided through Tenn-Share, a Tennessee Library Consortium
Contents:
Complementary & Alternative Therapies in Nursing
Foundations of Nursing Research
Guide to Culturally Competent Health Care
ICD-10-CM: Clinical Modification
ICD-10-PCS: Procedure Coding System
AAFP Conditions A to Z
Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses
Diseases and Disorders: A Nursing Therapeutics Manual
EBMcalc
Fundamental and Advanced Nursing Skills
High Acuity Nursing
Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures with Nursing Diagnoses
Lippincott's Manual of Nursing Practice
Medical-Surgical Nursing: Clinical Reasoning in Patient Care
Merck Manual Consumer Version
Nurse's Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Prioritized Interventions, and Rationales
Nursing Care Plans: Transitional Patient & Family Centered Care
Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual, Sparks and Taylor's
Olds' Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women's Health Across the Lifespan
Pediatric Nursing: Caring for Children and Their Families
Psychiatric Nursing: Assessment, Care Plans, and Medications
Stedman's Medical Dictionary
UpToDate
Evidence-based clinical decision support resource for healthcare practitioners. App is available.

App instructions: 1. Access UpToDate and register for a personal account. 2. Download UpToDate app from Play Store or Apple App Store. 3. Install app and enter account information. See video for demonstration.

PubMed Nursing Journals Subset

Subject Guide

Jackie Dowdy

Subjects: African American Studies, Nursing, Physician Assistant Studies

R2 Digital Library

R2 Digital Library is a collection of over 4,000 medical, nursing, and allied health eBooks. R2 book titles are included in the Library Catalog.

Note: Books are single-user access. The second user trying to open a book will see a message that all user licenses are in use and to try again later.

R2 Digital Library (Rittenhouse)

See website for a list of publishers in R2 Digital Library.
Note: Users may print sections of any resource on the platform. To comply with publishers’ copyright policies, if a resource receives more than 60 print requests or 20% of the total number of HTML pages that comprise the resource on the R2 Digital Library over a 24 hour period, then print functionality will be temporarily suspended for that resource. Users will receive a notification upon crossing the 75% threshold of allowable print requests.

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