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Selected Medical Reference Books in Our Library

Selected Nursing Reference Books

  • Clinical Laboratory Tests   (Ref RB 38.2 .C55)
  • Conn's Current Therapy   (Ref RM 101 .C87)
  • Diseases   (Ref RT 65 .D55)
  • Fundamentals of Nursing   (Ref RT 41 .P844)
  • Handbook of Nursing Diagnosis   (Ref RT 48.6 .C385)
  • Mosby's Nursing Drug Reference   (Ref RM 138 .S59)
  • Mosby's Pediatric Nursing Reference   (Ref RJ 245 .M675)
  • Nurse's Drug Handbook   (Ref RM 262 .L63)
  • Nurse's Reference Library: 
    • Diseases   (Ref RT 65 .D55) 
    • Procedures   (Ref RT 52 .P76) 
    • Signs and Symptoms   (Ref RT 48 .S54) 
  • Nursing Care of Adults   (Ref RT 41 .M78)
  • Nursing Care of Infants and Children   (Ref RT RJ 245 .W47)
  • Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual   (Ref RT 51 .S68)
  • Patient Care Standards   (Ref RT 49 .P38)
  • Peterson's Guide to Nursing Programs   (Ref RT 79 .P48)

Suggested Databases for Locating Articles

Some Subject-related Periodicals in Our Library

Related Internet Resources

National Library of Medicine
The National Library of Medicine provides health and medical information, publications, and access to the PubMed database for finding citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals.
(http://www.nlm.nih.gov/)
American Hospital Directory
This directory provides comparative data for most hospitals in the U.S.
(http://www.ahd.com/)
CINAHLsources
"CINAHLsources provides information on selected World Wide Web sites of interest to nursing and allied health professionals, researchers and students."
(http://www.cinahl.com/csources/csources.htm)
Health Hippo
This site offers "a collection of policy and regulatory materials related to health care." Searchers can find references to the U.S. Code, Code of Federal Regulations, legislation and cases, news and reports, and numerous related links for broad topics such as infection control, medical devices and reproductive rights.
(http://hippo.findlaw.com)
Health, United States, 2005
Published by the National Center for Health Statistics, Health, United States is an annual report on trends in health statistics
(http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus.htm)
Healthweb
Healthweb is a health information project of leading medical centers in the Midwest. It provides links to web pages on a wide range of health and medical topics.
(http://healthweb.org/index.cfm)
MedicineNet
Health and medical information from this site is "written, reviewed and /or edited by one or more board-certified physicians." It provides indexes for Diseases & Conditions, Procedures and Tests, Medications, a medical dictionary and a Healthy Living section.
(http://www.medicinenet.com/Script/Main/hp.asp)
NCCAM
This is the home page of National Center for Complemenatry and Alternative Medicine, which comes from the National Institutes of Health. It is "dedicated to exploring complementary and alternative healing practices in the context of rigorous science.."
(http://nccam.nih.gov)
NursingNet
Numerous links to organizations, nursing schools, hospitals, physicians, and nursing resources and journals are found at this site.
(http://www.nursingnet.org)
Nursing World
The home page of the American Nurses Association provides news and items of current interest to nurses as well as articles from the Online Journal of Issues in Nursing and back issues of the American Nurse. This is a comprehensive, award-winning web site.
(http://www.nursingworld.org)
TNA Online
The home page of the Tennessee Nurses Association provides useful links for Tennessee nurses, including an online version of Tennessee Nurse.
(http://www.tnaonline.org)

See also the Health and Wellness and Health Information Management Research Guides.

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