Subject Guides — Nursing
Subject Guides > Health Sciences
Contents
Databases
Browse the Library's extensive list
of databases relevant to the health sciences.
The three most important databases are:
PubMed - biomedical sciences
CINAHL - nursing and allied
health
PsycINFO - psychology
Gateways
Gateway sites present links to information on a wide variety of nursing and health related topics.
- Martindale's Health Sciences Guide: Virtual Nursing Center
- A medical multimedia education and specialized information resource center.
- Intute: Health and Life Sciences
- Web resources for the nursing, midwifery, and allied health professions. British in origin. Provides international coverage often lacking in other lists of links.
- Selected Nursing Web Sites
- A particularly fine collection of nursing-related links.
Books
- STATRef! Nursing
- Full-text access to 14 nursing books including Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses, Diseases and Disorders: a Nursing Therapeutics Manual, Foundations of Nursing Research, Medical-Surgical Nursing: Critical Thinking in Client Care, and more. Click the "titles" tab within STATREF to see a full listing of resources available to UTK.
- STATRef! Medical
- Full-text access to 37 medical books including essential titles such as Williams Obstetrics, Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 5-Minute Clinical Consult, ACP Medicine, and more. Click the "titles" tab within STATREF to see a full listing of resources available to UTK.
Associations
- Sigma Theta Tau International
- Honor Society of Nursing. See their extensive list of links to specialty nursing organizations.
- American Nurses Association's Nursing World
- Provides credentialing information, links to affiliated organizations, nursing news, political awareness information, position statements, links to nursing listserv and newgroup resources, and much more.
- National League for Nursing
- Includes information about accreditation, membership, constituent leagues, testing services and tests, and meetings and workshops."
- Oncology Nursing Society
- For both health care professionals and patients. Brings together links to a wealth of cancer material scattered on the web. Rich source of patient education materials. Includes continuing education, research, clinical practice, news, and more.
Selected Sites
- Medscape Nurses
- A timely source of clinical nursing information for advanced practice nurses. Registration is required but free. A very content heavy site.
- Nightingale
- UT College of Nursing.
- Nursing Theory Page
- A gateway site leading you to nursing theory pages from a variety of sources.
- NursingCenter.com
- "NursingCenter.com provides nurses of all backgrounds and specialties with a forum to share ideas, access reference materials, advance their careers and education...and read about the social, ethical and political topics affecting the nursing profession." Free registration provides access to all areas of the site.
Bibliographies
- Essential Nursing Resources
- A biennial list that includes "print, multimedia, and electronic sources to support nursing practice, education, administration, and research activities." Produced by the Interagency Council on Information Resources for Nursing. Links are offered to HTML and PDF versions of the list.
Need Help?
Contact
Lana S. Dixon,
Health Sciences
Reference Librarian
ldixon@utk.edu
974-4700