Books
Hematology (Williams)
Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice
Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guides (2004)
Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests
Nursing Care Plans and Documentation
Clinical information for patient care
Research Tools: provide access to full text journals, books, and databases all with extensive information on patient care.
Databases for finding articles & full text (Research)
Databases in Research Tools provide access to a number of nursing information resources, including:
CINAHL: The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health (CINAHL) database provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health from 1982 to present. More than 60% of the journals indexed are not indexed in MEDLINE.
PubMed: Nursing Subset indexes more than 500 nursing American and International journals from 1966 to the present.
Web of Science: includes journals on health services, hospital administration, health care management, health care financing, health policy and planning, health economics, and nursing from 1980 to the present.
HAPI: Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI) provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, and organizational behavior.
PsycINFO: PsycINFO® (1984 - present) covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines.
Medication information
Nutrition
Patient education
Patient Handouts from MD Consult
Click the "Open Generic Account" button in the left margin, then click the "Patient Handbook" tab at the top.
The AltCareDex(R) System by MICROMEDEX
Fully referenced patient counseling materials, written and peer reviewed by representatives from both conventional Western medicine and the alternative medicine communities. Includes dietary supplement information.
The CareNotes(TM) System by MICROMEDEX
Written at a 6th to 8th grade level, these documents offer the patient concise information in easy-to-understand terminology.