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Nursing Resources
The Van Pelt and Opie Library has access to a number of discipline-specific resources for the Nursing program. Please use the links below or visit our Catalog to search specific articles or across other resources.
These resources should work seamlessly on-campus; no separate accounts or logins needed. Off-campus, you will be asked to log in with your ISO user name and password before accessing the resource.
If you don't see a resource that you is critical to your teaching and research, please reach out. We are happy to work with you to ensure that you and your students have the tools you need to be successful!
These resources should work seamlessly on-campus; no separate accounts or logins needed. Off-campus, you will be asked to log in with your ISO user name and password before accessing the resource.
If you don't see a resource that you is critical to your teaching and research, please reach out. We are happy to work with you to ensure that you and your students have the tools you need to be successful!
Databases & Journals (electronic)
- CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowSource of full-text literature in the nursing and allied health fields. Comprising scholarly journals, health care books, and evidence-based care sheets, CINAHL includes publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association. Useful for students, researchers, educators, and practitioners alike.
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Provides researchers, allied health professionals, nurses and medical educators access to full-text scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines. - Health Source: Consumer Edition (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Consumer health information including magazines and reference books. It also includes searchable full text for current health pamphlets. - Nursing & Allied Health Premium This link opens in a new windowDatabase for nursing research, clinical skills development, and curriculum support. Materials include scholarly literature, clinical training videos, reference materials, and evidence-based resources. In addition to nursing, subject coverage includes Allied Health, Physical and Occupational Therapies, Physiology, Anatomy, and more.
- PubMed (MEDLINE/National Library of Medicine) This link opens in a new windowA service of the National Library of Medicine, includes citations for biomedical articles from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles. Coverage is generally from 1946 - present with selective coverage back to 1809.
Access: While Pubmed is freely available worldwide, our version with HuskyFetch will link you to Michigan Tech subscribed content or to interlibrary loan services. - APA PsycINFO (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowProvides access to indexing of international literature in psychology, social, behavioral, and health sciences. The database includes material of relevance to psychologists and professionals in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work. Updated weekly, PsycINFO provides access to journal articles, books, chapters, and dissertations.
- LearningExpress This link opens in a new window
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Contains test prep materials for Nursing certification tests.
Print Books
Nursing: Scope & Standards of Practice by Call Number: Permanent Reserve - Request at Library Circulation Desk ; RT85.5 .N87 2021ISBN: 9780999308868Publication Date: 2021-05-30Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, 4th Edition is an essential document for every nurse. The scope of practice statement answers the who, what, when, where, how, and why questions of nursing. The standards provide authoritative statements of the actions and behaviors that all registered nurses are expected to competently perform, regardless of role, population, specialty, and setting. Each standard is accompanied by detailed competencies for the three practice levels.
Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements by Call Number: Permanent Reserve - Request at Library Circulation Desk ; RT85 .C63 2015ISBN: 9781558105997Publication Date: 2015-01-01The Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements (The Code) was developed as a guide for carrying out nursing responsibilities in a manner consistent with quality in nursing care and the ethical obligations of the profession.
Guide to nursing's social policy statement : understanding the profession from social contract to social covenant by Call Number: Permanent Reserve - Request at Library Circulation Desk ; RT82 .F68 2015ISBN: 9781558106154Publication Date: 2015-07-30Nursing is often called a helping profession: Nursing’s Social Policy Statement is about the many ways that nursing helps others. It is about the relationship—the social contract—between the nursing profession and society and their reciprocal expectations.
