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Guide to resources in nursing
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Clinical Rotation Resources 

Guide is intended to provide links to sources that can be helpful when doing pre-assessments and other activities during clinical rotations.  Includes drug information, reference sources to gather information on various diseases or interventions.


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Background Information

  • FIRSTConsult
    Evidence-based primary care information designed to be used at point-of-care. Tools for differential diagnosis, evaluation and management of medical conditions, patient education and procedures skills review.
  • MEDLINEplus
    Extensive guide to health information resources. Includes common diseases and conditions, dictionaries, organizations, clearinghouses, publications, directories, consumer health libraries, MEDLINE and other medical database
  • Access Medicine (Only 5 Users at One Time)
    Features over 60 medical book titles, drug information, thousands of images and illustrations, interactive self-assessment programs, case files, diagnostic tools, and the ability to download content to a mobile device

    * Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
    * Hurst's The Heart
    * Schwartz's Principles of Surgery
    * Williams Obstetrics
    * Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics
  • UpToDate (Only Available on Campus)
    Clinical information tool providing reviewed clinical reference material
  • Natural Standard
    Evidence-based, peer-reviewed information on complementary and alternative medicine treatments. Includes evaluation of therapies for specific conditions, herbs and supplements, and diet therapies.
  • eMedicine
    Source of content for evidence-based content that provides the latest practice guidelines in 62 medical specialties. eMedicine's professional content undergoes multiple levels of physician peer review.
  • STAT!Ref Electronic Medical Library  
      
    Full-text cross-searchable reference books for the health professional. Includes other resources such as MedCalc 3000, a unique computerized medical reference and tool set.

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Literature Databases

  • CINAHL Plus with Full Text  
      
    Expanded version of the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature with full text for over 600 journals, plus evidence-based care sheets, legal cases, drug records, and more than 200 books.
  • PubMed/MEDLINE  
      
    The primary database of information in biomedical and health sciences fields.
  • APA PsycNet/ PsycINFO (Psychological Abstracts)  
      
    APA database of abstracts for psychological literature. Includes journals, dissertations, reports, book chapters, and other scholarly documents.
  • Cochrane Library
    Database of systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare. Includes Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness, Controlled Trials Register, and Review Methodology.
  • Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library
    Library includes access to the Sigma Theta Tau's Registry of Nursing Research
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    Public database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. Includes summaries, links to full-text when available, tools for comparison, glossary, and PDA downloads.
  • TRIP Database-Clinical Search Engine
    TRIP was created in 1997 to bring together all the 'evidence-based' healthcare resources available on the Internet
  • Global Health on CAB Direct  
      
    Citations and abstracts from the international literature of public health. Particularly strong emphasis on medical entomology, human nutrition, vector control, and medicinal plants.
  • AGELINE
    Coverage: (1978 - present) Abstracts of the literature of social gerontology. Literature covered is of interest to researchers, health professionals, and consumers. Produced by AARP
  • Popline
    Abstracts of the international literature on reproductive health, including population, family planning, and related health issues.
  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
    Citations and abstracts to articles in more than 800 nursing, allied health and medical journals. Over 500 journals include the full-text articles. In addition, drug patient education sheets are available from the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide.
  • Nursing & Allied Health Resouce Page
    Page created by the Nursing & Allied Health Resources section of the Medical Library Association.
  • Health Source: Consumer Edition
    Consumer health information from 80 full-text magazines, 130 health reference books and health-related pamphlets. Also includes drug patient education sheets from Lexi-PAL Drug Guide.
  • ERIC - Education Resources Information Center
    Collection of all types of educational resources: journal articles, reports, curriculum guides, dissertations. Coverage begins in 1966. More than 1.2 million records. Produced by the Department of Education. VCU Libraries provides four versions: three from vendors (EBSCO, CSA, and FirstSearch); and one from the Department of Education. While the content is the same, the interfaces are different. You may end up using any combination of the four.
  • Dissertations and Theses Full Text (Proquest)
    Coverage: (1637 - present) Full text for most dissertations from 1997 to the present. Includes full text for some earlier dissertations, along with over 2.4 million dissertations and theses citations from around the world.
  • Google Scholar
    Scholarly literature crawled by Google.

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