Nursing Resources: Overview

This is a guide to library resources for nursing students and faculty.

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Heal WA
Health research resources for licensed nurses in Washington State.
Whatcom Community College resources
Inquire directly with Whatcom Community College Library about how to use research resources as a guest.
EthnoMed
Includes cultural information for clinical practice. Resources are King County based.
Refugee Health Information Network
Health Policy Center at the Urban Institute

These are free web sources that are not through library subscriptions but may be useful for some research topics.

Trip Database
Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use research evidence to support their practice or care. Includes advertisements.
Mednar: Deep Web Medical Search
Mednar is a medical orientated web search engine that arranges results in such a manner that you can filter results easily.

CINAHL Complete [EBSCO]
A database of nursing and health journals. Provides full-text access for more than 1,300 journals, and indexes more than 5,000 additional journals.
Tip:
Use the CINAHL heading search to find the best terms to locate sources.
MEDLINE [EBSCO]
A database of authoritative medical information that covers medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and related topics.
PubMed [National Center for Biotechnology Information]
A database of more than 26 million citations to biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Some links to full-texts are available.
Tip:
If a full-text is not available on PubMed, check for article access by searching by title in OneSearch.
Academic Search Complete [EBSCO]
A multi-disciplinary database of full-text access to approximately 6,600 journals and magazines and nearly 6,000 full-text peer-reviewed journals.

Topics including anthropology, ethnic and multicultural studies, geography, law, religion and philosophy, and women’s studies.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition [EBSCO]
A database covering many medical disciplines, with focus on nursing. Includes full-texts, abstracts, and indexed works.

Social Sciences Databases [ProQuest]
This search includes multiple databases focusing the social sciences, social work, gender studies, and more.
Health Source: Consumer Edition [EBSCO]
A database of consumer health information. Includes full-text magazines and health reference books.
SPORTDiscus [EBSCO]
A database of citations and abstracts to sports literature, including sports medicine, exercise physiology, sport and biomechanics, sport psychology, training, coaching, and related topics. Coverage begins in 1800.
Annual Reviews
A database of articles covering significant yearly developments in biomedical, physical, and social sciences.
Tip:
When full text is not available, use Interlibrary Loan (ILLiad).
PsycINFO [EBSCO]
A database of abstracts for the international literature in psychology and related disciplines such as sociology, education, consumer behavior, linguistics, medicine, law, psychiatry, and anthropology. Coverage from 1840 to the present.
Tip:
This database is very powerful for conducting precise searches when using search limiters.