Tennessee State UniversityBrown-Daniel Library

Resources for Nursing

Prepared by:

Nancy Henthorne

Scope and Definition

Nursing: Provision at various levels of preparation, of services that are essential to or helpful in the promotion, maintenance, and restoration of health and well-being or in the prevention of illness, as of infants, of the sick and injured, or of others for any reason unable to provide such services themselves. (Dorland’s, 2000)

Electronic Access to Books

Online Catalog Athena Interlibrary Loan (ILLIAD) NetLibrary

Selected Print Resources – Stack Area – Third Floor

Nursing as a profession: RT. Pediatrics: RJ Internal Medicine: RC Public Health: RA Surgery: RD Science: Q (QD, chemistry, QH, biology, QM,

anatomy. TX: Nutrition

Selected Print Reference Sources

Patient Care Standards – RT85.5 .M36 Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing & Allied –

Health – RT21 .G353 2002 Physicians’ Desk Reference – RS75 .P5

2002 Historical Encyclopedia of Nursing – RT31

.S66 1999

Selected Print Reference Sources (cont.)

Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary – R121 .D73 2000

Research Survival Guide – RT81.5 .D65 1998

Internet Resource Guide for Nurses and Health Professionals – RT50.5 . M37 2001

Professional Guide to Diseases – RT65 .P69 2001

Periodical Holdings

May be accessed by:– Notebooks located in both libraries, listing title,

call or shelf number, Main or Williams Campus, and dates.

– Periodical Holdings link on the library web page, which includes links to title and subject lists, along with a link to Print and Online Journals.

Selected Nursing Journals

American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Journal of Advanced Nursing Journal of Nursing Education Journal of Professional Nursing Journal of the Society of Pediatric Nurses Journal of Transcultural Nursing Nursing Nursing Forum

Selected Nursing Journals (cont.)

Journal of Nursing Scholarship Nursing Administration Quarterly RN: National Magazine for Nursing Western Journal of Nursing Research Nursing Management Nursing Practitioner Journal of Holistic Nursing Patient Care

Selected Nursing Journals (cont.)

Pain Management Nursing Journal of Gerontological Nursing Research in Nursing and Health Journal of American Academy of Nurse

Practitioners Nursing and Health Care Perspectives

Electronic Resources

Evaluations Government Resources Forms Journals Reserves Periodical Holdings

Electronic Resources (cont.)

May be accessed through Databases by subject or title via Library Home Page

InfoTrac (full text)– Health and Wellness Resource Center– Health Reference Center Academic

EbscoHost – Academic Search Premier – CINAHL with Full Text– Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection 

Electronic Resources (cont.)

• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts– PsycInfo– PsycARTICLES– Nursing Collection (Proquest)

Lexis-Nexis (Medical research) Marcive WebDOCS-Express Search Librarians' Index to the Internet Internet Public Library

Helpful Web Sites

National League for Nursing Tennessee Board of Nursing National Student Nurses' Association American Nurses Association Tennessee Department of Health

Conclusion

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