Fletcher Library at the West Campus
Research in Nursing
A Web Page for ASU West School of Nursing
NURSING WEB SITES
Hardin Meta Directory-Nursinghttp://www.arcade.uiowa.edu/hardin-www/md-nurs.html
The Hardin Meta Directory "provides access to the best lists, regularly maintained and updated!"
The following sites are good starting points for finding relevant information in nursing.
HealthWeb
Nursing
http://healthweb.org/nursing/
Contains career
information, information on nursing electronic discussion groups, information
on professional societies, biomedical links, nursing research, links
to resources in medicine, allied health and basic sciences.
Health Sciences Information at the ASU Noble Science Library
http://www.asu.edu/lib/noble/health/
Includes some additional
Internet sites and print resources held by the Noble Science Library.
Nursing Center
http://www.nursingcenter.com/
"...portal to more than 700 continuing education activities and thousands of clinical articles from 50 leading nursing journals published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, including the American Journal of Nursing, Nursing2006, Nursing Management, The Nurse Practitioner, Nursing Made Incredibly Easy, and many more specialty journals."
Yahoo-Nursing
http://www.yahoo.com/Health/Nursing/
A well organized
directory of nursing sites.
NURSING, MEDICAL & PSYCHOLOGY DATABASES
These are available only from ASU computers. No access from non ASU service providers (except Pubmed).CINAHL
Citations and some
abstracts from journals, dissertations and pamphlets in nursing and allied
health disciplines. Also includes the complete text of some state nursing
acts. 1982-present
MEDLINE
Abstracts from
biomedical articles in 3200 professional medical, dental and some nursing
journals.
1966-present
psychINFO
A comprehensive
database of psychological information containing abstracts from journals,
books and book chapters.
PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed
Provides free access to MEDLINE, NLM's database of more than 11 million bibliographic
citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary
medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences
FULL TEXT DATABASES
Academic
Search Premier Coverage: 1990 - Subject: General / Multidisciplinary Includes: Some Full Text, Scholarly Articles
Contains information from a range of academic areas, including business, social
sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education, multicultural,
and general reference. Covers The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and
The Christian Science Monitor.
Lexis-Nexis
Academic (News) Coverage: 1977 (most 1990s) - Subject: News
Includes: Some Full Text
Covers U.S. and international news from newspapers, magazines, journals, wire
services, television and radio news broadcasts, reviews, entertainment and sport
news, student newspapers and non-English Language news sources.
ARIZONA HEALTH
Arizona Department of Health Serviceshttp://www.hs.state.az.us/
Information on all aspects of health in Arizona. Includes statistical data.
BIOETHICS
Encyclopedia of Bioethics QH 332 .E52 WestRefBasic Resources
in Bioethics
http://www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/publications/scopenotes/basicresinbio.htm
The works chosen for Basic Resources in Bioethics were selected from the collection
of the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature. Contains mainly
print works.
DRUG INFORMATION
Nursing . . . Drug
Handbook
RM 300 .N87x 2007 WestRef
RxLIST
http://www.rxlist.com/
Contains information on the top 200 drugs for drug interactions, side effects, indications and
other prescribing information.
GOVERNMENT DATABASES
The federal government publishes a lot of health related information and useful statistics.Center
for Disease Control
http://www.cdc.gov
CDC offers links
to all of its centers, offices, and institutes and pointers to topics such
as diseases, health risks, prevention guidelines and strategies, the Morbidity
and Mortality Weekly Reports, health statistics and scientific data.
Food
and Drug Administration
http://www.fda.gov
Excellent information
on the risks and benefits of drugs and other medical devices. Contains
information on new drug approvals.
Healthy
People 2010
http://www.health.gov/healthypeople/
"Healthy People
2010 is a set of health objectives for the Nation to achieve over the first
decade of the new century."
National Cancer Institute
http://www.nci.nih.gov/
The NCI coordinates the National Cancer Program, which conducts and supports
research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs with
respect to the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of cancer, rehabilitation
from cancer, and the continuing care of cancer patients and the families of
cancer patients. The site provides access to Cancer Net, NCI's comprehensive
cancer database, including summaries on cancer treatment, screening, prevention
and supportive care, and information on ongoing clinical trials.
National
Institutes of Health
http://www.nih.gov
The NIH home page
offers news and events; health information; grants and contracts; scientific
resources and links to other institutes
Alcohol & Drug Information U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and SAMJSA's National Clearninghouse
http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/
This web site is
a service of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services Administration, and the U.S. Public Health Service.
Visitors will find news, referrals, publications, statistics, forums, databases
and related links.]
National
Institute of Nursing Research
http://www.nih.gov/ninr/
NIH goal is to
promote science that strengthens nursing practice and improves health care.
Although the site mainly gives information about the organization it does
have links to schools of nursing in the United States as well as links
to other nursing web sites.
National
Heart Lung and Blood Institute
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/
The National Heart,
Lung, and Blood Institute does research for a national program in diseases
of the heart, blood vessels, lung and blood, and sleep disorders. The site
provides extensive research about the above diseases for both consumers
and health professionals.
HEALTH NEWS
CNN Healthhttp://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/
Up to the minute stories about health and nutrition. Also includes health news from the previous couple of weeks.
Doctor's Guide to Medical &
Other News
http://www.pslgroup.com/MEDnews.htm
The latest medical news from conferences, the literature, news wires and the
net. Geared mostly for the professional.
HEALTH STATISTICS
Statistical Resources on the Web /Health
Compiled by the University of Michigan Library Documents Center.
National
Center for Health Statistics
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/
Arizona
Statistics and Vital Statistics
http://www.azdhs.gov/plan/
Morbidity
and Mortality Weekly Reports
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES SITES
Yahoo: Healthhttp://dir.yahoo.com/Health/
A good place to start looking for health related information. Examples of links include diseases and conditions, fitness, general health, health administration and work place health. Also useful for the consumer.
Medweb
http://www.medweb.emory.edu/med/web/
MedWeb has links
to a variety of medical subjects, from Aerospace Medicine to Virtual Reality
in Medicine. It's indexed several different ways which makes searching
easy.
Medscape
http://www.medscape.com/
An online journal
of health news for health care professionals, has some full text articles
and access to Medline. Also contains a medical dictionary.
NURSE PRACTICE ACTS
The Student Nurse Forumhttp://kcsun3.tripod.com/id110.htm
Provides links to individual state nursing boards, including Arizona.
NUTRITION
Nutrition.govhttp://www.nutrition.gov/
PATIENT AND CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION
Health finderhttp://www.healthfinder.gov
Health finder is a gateway consumer health and human services information web site from the United States government. Contains online publications, clearinghouses, databases, Web sites and support groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the public.
Health
finder: Lo Que Usted Necesita: Espanol
http://www.healthfinder.gov/espanol/
Provides health
information for Spanish speaking people. Also useful for practitioners
who need reliable health information for their Spanish speaking patients.
Medline
Plus
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
The National Library
of Medicine designed this site to direct consumers to valid resources containing
information that will assist this group of users to research their health
questions. May also be useful for health professionals.
New York Online Access to Consumer Health
http://www.noah-health.org/
"NOAH seeks to provide high quality full text health information for consumers
that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased." Many of the subjects
have a professional section that contains information useful for the health
care provider.
PSYCHIATRIC NURSING
American Psychiatric Nurses Associationhttp://www.apna.org/index.html
This site contains resources related to psychiatric nursing in the United States.
Internet
Mental Health
http://www.mentalhealth.com/
Contains extensive
information on mental disorders, their possible causes and treatments.
Detailed information on medications.
CITING SOURCES
Using American Psychological Association (APA) Format (Updated to 5th Edition)From the Pudue University Online Writing Lab
APA
Style Documentation
Sponsored by the American Psychological Association. The site includes style tips adapted from the 5th Edition of the APA Publication manual.
For assistance, consult with the Reference Desk staff or e-mail Leslee Shell (leslee.shell@asu.edu), Biology/Nursing Librarian.
This page originally composed by Natalie Kupfeberg.
