Nursing Research Guide
Databases with Nursing Content
- R2 Library
- A growing collection of e-books supporting the nursing program. Click on "Nursing" and select from the list of titles available to Franklin Pierce students, faculty, and staff.
- CINAHL Plus with Full Text
- Indexes nursing and allied health literature, including physical therapy sources. In addition to full-text resources, links users to full text in many of our other databases.
- CINAHL Basic Searching — EBSCOhost Tutorial (3.5 mins.), opens in a new window
- CINAHL Advanced Searching — EBSCOhost Tutorial (8.5 mins.), opens in a new window
- Personlizing searching with MyEBSCOhost — EBSCOhost Tutorial (3.45 mins)
- How to Create 'Search' and 'Journal' Alerts in MyEBSCOhost — EBSCOhost Tutorial (3.45 mins)
- HealthSource Nursing/Academic Edition
- Full text of scholarly and professional nursing journals covering many different types of nursing. Contains consumer-oriented drug information through a partnership with Lexi-Pals.
- HealthSciences and Management Journals In ProQuest
- Search both Proquest Health & Allied Science Source and ProQuest Health Management Journals at the same time. See next screen for details on each database.
- Medline (via EBSCOhost)
- An access point to articles in Medline with links to the full-text of many articles.
- PubMed (via the National Library of Medicine)
- PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
- Using MeSH Subject Headings — from the National Library of Medicine
- General Science Index
- Provides access to articles or citations to both scholarly and popular journal articles from a wide swath of scientific disciplines.
—Tutorials require Flash
Nursing Web Links
Reference Materials
- Gateway to the National Library of Medicine
- Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body
- Human Anatomy Online
- Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
- McGill University's Virtual Stethoscope
- Medical Images on the web
- A list of sites from the University of Nebraska Medical Center
- OmniMedicalSearch.com
- a meta-search engine for medical sites
- Nursing library
- from RNCentral.com
- Whole Brain Atlas
Online Journals
- BioMed Central
- Publisher of 180 peer-reviewed open access journals
- BMC: Nursing
- BMC Nursing is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of nursing research, training, education, and practice.
- Journal Watch
- "Physician-authored summaries and commentary from the publishers of the New England Journal of Medicine
- The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing
- The Public Library of Science
- PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.
Evidence-based Medicine
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- Centre for Evidence-Based Nursing
- York, UK
- The Cochcrane Collaboration
- Joanna Briggs Institute
- National Comprehensive Cancer Network
- National Guideline Clearinghouse
- Netting the Evidence
- School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield
- Oncology Nursing Society (ONS)-EBP Online Resource Center “Evidence Search” section
- Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) Best Practice Guidelines
- Sarah Cole Hirsh Institute
- Studentbmj.com: International Medical Student’s Journal
- U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
- University of Alberta-Evidence Based Medicine Tool Kit
- University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria
Clinical Trials
Drug Information
- ePocrates online
- Continually updated drug and formulary information
- RxList
- The Internet Drug Index
Nursing Organizations
Education Partnerships
Nursing Theory
Regional Health Stats
Geriatric Websites
Health Policy
- NH Public Health Association
- watching bills related to public health in NH
- Administration on Aging
- Federal legislation
U.S. Public Health Service Agencies
- AHRQ: Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
- Research on health care systems, quality and cost issues, and effectiveness of medical treatments
- ATSDR: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
- To prevent exposures to hazardous substances from waste sites
- CAA: Clean Air Act
- CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- System of health surveillance and maintains national health statistics
- CWA: Clean Water Act
- FDA: Food and drug Administration
- Food, cosmetics, medicines, medical devices, radiation-transmitting products
- Federal Poverty Guidelines
- HRSA: Health Resources and Services Administration
- Federal health resources for medically underserved populations
- IHS: Indian Health Service
- Federal health services to American Indians and Alaskan Natives
- Medicare
- NIH: National Institutes of Health
- Medical research center
- OSHA: Occupational Safety and Health Act
- SAMHSA: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
- To provide prevention, diagnosis and treatment for substance abuse and mental health
General Links
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Nursing
- Covering Kids and Families
- Uninsured children & adults
- Ethics and Human Rights
- Healthy People 2010
- International Council of Nurses
- Advancing nursing and health world wide
- Medscape: Nurses
- Minority Health Websites
- National Council of State Boards of Nursing
- National Institute of Nursing Research
- NH Department of Health and Human Services
Suggestions? Dead Link? Please let us know.