Class Help Page: Nursing 601, Fall 2007

Finding Articles [off campus access] [tips]

CINAHL your primary database for nursing literature [more...]

Proquest Nursing & Allied Health Source not as comprehensive as CINAHL [more...]

Cochrane Library definitive collection of databases for EBP evidence [more...]

MEDLINE via Pub Med comprehensive database for medical literature, including nursing [more...]

Joanna Briggs Institute leading resource for EBP resources [more...]

Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library Sigma Theta Tau's resource for reputable nursing information [more...]

   More nursing article resources ...   

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If you already have a journal title, use JournaLocator to determine if VU has a subscription.

Finding Books [off campus access] [tips]

GALILEO - VU Libraries Catalog resources available at VU libraries [more...]

WorldCat resources available for loan from other libraries worldwide [more...]

Reference Resources [tips]

Online -- Selected Reference Resources

Print -- Christopher Center Reference Stacks, 2nd floor
Example listing of available books:

American Nursing Association Nursing Standards
  All of these are available in the Reference stacks in call number order

Mosby's dictionary of medicine, nursing & health professions Ref. R121 .M67 2006
Religious traditions & healthcare decisions Ref. R724 .R454 1999
Merck manual of diagnosis and therapy Ref. RC55 .M4 2006
Mosby's nursing drug reference Ref. RM301.12 M67 2007
Drugs : synonyms and properties Ref. RS51 .D776 2002
American drug index Ref. RS355 .A48 2007

Gale encyclopedia of nursing & allied health Ref. RT 21 .G353 2002
Handbook of nursing diagnosis Ref. RT48.6 .C385 2004
Nursing care plans Ref. RT49 .D64 2006
Encyclopedia of nursing research Ref. RT81.5 .E53 2006
Practical ethics for nurses and nursing students Ref. RT85 .P73 2002
Nurse's legal handbook Ref. RT86.7 .N88 2000

Recommended Internet Resources [tips]

National Student Nurses' Association
   http://www.nsna.org/

Hardin.MD: Nursing & Nursing Research   
   http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/nurs.html

Nursing Research on the Internet U of T Austin
   http://www.lib.utexas.edu/subject/nursing/virtual.html

More nursing internet resources ...

Final Writing and Presentation

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th ed.
    Reference, Reserve, Stacks BF 76.7 .P83 2001

Citing Resources   http://www.valpo.edu/library/citing.html#apa
VU Writing Center  http://www.valpo.edu/writingcenter/

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