http://www.brcc.edu/library/nurse/

Nursing Workshop: An Introduction to Online and Library Resources for Nursing Students

 
 

 
 

Blue Ridge Community College
Houff Library

 
 
 Books and Print Resources
 
 
- To find books in the Library, search the BRCC Online Catalog  
 

Quick Book Search:          

 
 

SEARCH EXAMPLES
nursing and history 
critical care 
nursing and education

 
Resources for locating books from other libraries. (If you find a title you would like, request that the library Interlibrary Loan the item for you). 

WorldCat (Catalog of materials owned by libraries in the United States).
James Madison University
University of Virginia

Area Hospital Libraries: (They do not have online catalogs, but will have books and journals you can use.  We have copies of their Periodical Listings at the Circulation Desk.)
Augusta Medical Center Library
Rockingham Memorial Hospital Library


*NOTE: Materials located using these catalogs can be obtained through Interlibrary Loan.

 
 Periodical Indexes (Magazines, Journals & Newspapers)
Be sure and follow all the steps on our Remote Access Directions page to be able to access these databases from your home computer
How to Search for Nursing Articles - little tutorial on how to find nursing articles through BRCC's databases.

How to tell the difference between scholarly and peer-reviewed journals  (This page is from the University of Illinois and it refers to Ulrich's Periodical Directory which you can access here with your Blackboard login and password.  Use our link rather than the University of Illinois' link, as you do not have access to their subscription to Ulrich's.)

Blackwell  - many are on nursing and medicine.  Click here for detailed instructions. Search them all at once by clicking on Nursing or Medicine or one of the subheadings below, or click on a title to search it individually.
Nursing
Ambulatory Child Health
Australian Journal of Rural Health
AWHONN Lifelines
European Journal of Cancer Care
Health Expectations
Health Information and Libraries Journal
Health Libraries Review
Open access peer-reviewed articles available free for all to view Health Services Research
International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare
International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
International Journal of Nursing Practice
International Journal of Nursing Terminologies and Classifications
International Journal of Older People Nursing
International Nursing Review
International Wound Journal
Japan Journal of Nursing Science
Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing
Journal of Advanced Nursing
Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing
Journal of Clinical Nursing
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
Journal of Nursing Management
Journal of Nursing Scholarship
Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing
Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
Journal of Quality In Clinical Practice
Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
Journal of Travel Medicine
Learning in Health and Social Care
Nursing and Health Sciences
Nursing Forum
Nursing in Critical Care
Nursing Inquiry
Nursing Philosophy
Perspectives In Psychiatric Care
Public Health Nursing
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences
Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing

Medicine
Allergy, Clinical Immunology and Respiratory Medicine
Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine
Cardiovascular Medicine
Dentistry
Dermatology
Emergency Medicine
Endocrinology
Epidemiology, Public Health and Statistics
Family Practice
Gastroenterology
General and Internal Medicine
Geriatric Medicine
Hematology
Human Anatomy and Physiology
Human Genetics
Infectious Disease and Microbiology
Neuroscience and Neurology
Nursing
Nutrition and Dietetics
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Oncology and Radiotherapy
Ophthalmology and Optometry
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Pediatrics
Pharmacology
Psychiatry
Radiology and Imaging
Renal Medicine
Sports Medicine and Science
Surgery and Surgical Specialities
Transplantation
Urology

Health Sciences
Dentistry
Health and Social Care
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
Australian Social Work
Child & Family Social Work
Child: Care, Health and Development
Health and Social Care in the Community
Health Expectations
Health Information and Libraries Journal
Health Libraries Review
Open access peer-reviewed articles available free for all to view Health Services Research
International Journal of Dental Hygiene
International Wound Journal
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
Journal of Quality In Clinical Practice
The Journal of Rural Health
Journal of School Health
Learning in Health and Social Care
The Milbank Quarterly
Nursing and Health Sciences
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences
Sociology of Health and Illness
Studies in Family Planning
Value in Health
Intellectual Disability
Mental Health


AgeLine Database - social gerontology and aging-related research, policy and practice.

Health Reference Center (InfoTrac) - Provides bibliographic references, abstracts and full text for excerpts and articles from a variety of health publications: a medical dictionary; medical directories and reference books; consumer-oriented and professional health periodicals; and pamphlets issued by leading health organizations. Periodicals are from the most recent five years. Updated weekly.

Health and Wellness Resource Center - Use this database to research topics in health and medicine, medications, and wellness. Includes encyclopedias, directories, medical dictionary, magazines, journals, and newspapers.

Expanded Academic (InfoTrac) - From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers - with full text and images.

CINAHL Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health Literature (Ebsco) CINAHL is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for 1,835 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982.

Pre-CINAHL - A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to searchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing.

There are 27 full-text clinical medicine and nursing journals at
Yourjournals@OVID.

JSTOR - BRCC now subscribes to JSTOR's Health & General Sciences module, which will carry articles past 1980.

PubMed - includes Medline, an extensive database of citations to journal articles maintained by the National Library of Medicine.

MEDLINE - MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

freemedicaljournals.com - over 50 free medical journals.   You will need to register, but it's free.

Click here for a listing of nursing journals on the shelves in the BRCC Library - we have several online now.

There is a listing of AMC and Rockingham Memorial Hospital Libraries' periodicals at the Circulation Desk.

 
 Online Reference Sources
 
General
AEGIS - AIDS Education Global Information System
allnurses.com - this commercial portal includes nursing care plans, material tailored to students, nursing magazines and online journals, discussion groups, career opportunities, e-mail updates, and links to nursing schools, hospitals, state boards, nursing organizations, and shopping.
American Nurses Association - information on current issues in nursing, career center with searchable jobs database, space for posting resumes, and advice for job seekers.
Centers for Disease Control
Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body
Healthfinder - A government site containing links to health care information from government agencies.
HealthGate - Includes: New England Journal of Medicine Weekly Briefings and Medline Search.
Healthline
Healthweb - well-organized collection of evaluated, noncommercial resources is a collaborative project of health sciences libraries at more than 20 leading academic medical centers.
Human Anatomy Online
Interactive Patient
Internet Stroke Center
Land of Medical Links
 
MayoClinic.com
McGill University Virtual Stethoscope (RealPlayer needed)
MedHist: The Guide to History of Medicine
Medical Images on the Web
Medical Reference -
An annotated collection of links to Web sites. In addition to diseases, drugs, and general guides, topics include multilingual sites, information on evaluating online health sites, and much more.
MedlinePlus - For consumer health information.
MerckSource
National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine - includes PubMed
NMAP (Nursing, Midwifery and the Allied Health Professions) - NMAP is a gateway to evaluated, quality Internet resources in Nursing, Midwifery and Allied health Professions, aimed at students, researchers, academics and practitioners. 
Nursing on the Net
NursingCenter.com - offers search services, continuing education articles, career center, e-mail, a personal file drawer and forums for nurses.   Also contains the full text of 10 journals and tables of contents for more than 20 other publications.
Nursing World
Physical Exam Study Guides
PubMed Central - free access to more than 160 high-quality life science journals.
RN Central
Stanford Health Library
Student Nurse Information Center
University of Michigan - specialized directory service includes links to nursing journals and newsletters that provide full-text articles online free of charge.
The Virtual Nurse
The Virtual Nursing Center
WebMD Health
World Wide Web Virtual Library:Biosciences-Nursing

Specific

Dictionaries
BioTech's Life Science Dictionary|
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary
Medical Dictionary
Merck Manual

Drugs
Drug Information Database
RxList - Information on the 200 most frequently prescribed drugs in America.

Statistics
Agency for Healthcare Policy and Research - A searchable web site covering research and statistics in the general field of health care.
National Center for Health Statistics - NCHS is the primary Federal organization responsible for the collection, analyses, and dissemination of health statistics.
 
 Web Directories and Search Engines
 
Web Directories
World Wide Web Virtual Library:Biosciences-Nursing
www.about.com
www.looksmart.com

Search Engines
www.altavista.com
www.hotbot.com 
 
 Style Guides
 
Slate Citation Machine - fill in boxes and it will make your citations for you
Citation Style for Research Papers (includes APA, AMA and MLA)
Online Writers Workshop (Includes APA & MLA Guides) University of Illinois 
APA Guide from Purdue's On-line Writing Lab

8/23/07