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Health, Nursing and Radiologic Sciences
Try our new Library Research Guides in nursing.
Nursing
Public & Community
Health Nursing
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Want to explore this topic on the
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Abstracts and selected full text |
Selected full-text articles from newspapers, magazines and journals
1975 - present |
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CINAHL
Plus |
Abstracts and selected full text |
CINAHL abstracts articles in nursing and allied health journals, dating from 1982 to the present. Also includes links to selected full-text articles. |
The Cochrane Library (Cochrane Collaboration/Wiley) |
Abstracts and selected full text |
The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases containing quality information to assist healthcare professionals in making evidence-based decisions. Reviews and protocols, healthcare trials, technology assessments, and economic evaluations are included. |
eBooks
on Ebscohost |
Full-text
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This collection of ebooks covers a diverse array of topics, including business, natural and health sciences, humanities, education, psychology, criminal justice, and information science. |
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General
Science Full Text |
Abstracts and Full Text |
Journal and magazine articles in biology, chemistry, earth
science, health, math, physics and related fields. Provides indexing
from 1984 and selected full text articles from 1995 on. |
Abstracts only |
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) provides information on approximately 15,000 measurement instruments for the health and psychosocial sciences, including questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, coding schemes, and rating scales. While the full text of the instruments is not provided, the information given can help determine what instruments exist, track an instrument's history over time, and locate ordering information. |
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Health Source: Nursing |
Abstracts and Full Text |
Provides full-text articles and citations about nursing, medicine, and health. Includes information from 1975 to the present. |
HEED: Health Economic Evaluations Database (Wiley-InterScience) |
Abstracts and bibliographic data only |
HEED contains records on studies of cost-effectiveness
and other economic evaluations of medications and medical treatments.
Information comes from over 5,000 journals as well as the Wellcome
and Battelle databases of economic evaluation literature. |
Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI COnNECT+) |
Full-text | The Joanna Briggs Institute is an international, non-profit research organization that specializes in evidence-based healthcare. Search JBI COnNECT+ for the JBI Library of Systematic Reviews, Best Practice Information sheets, Evidence Summaries, and Evidence Based Recommended Practices. |
MEDLINE
with Full Text |
Abstracts and selected full text |
MEDLINE with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for more than 1,450 of the 4,800+ journals indexed. Subjects include nursing, radiology and radiography, general medicine, the healthcare system, and more. Citations and abstracts are covered back to 1949, full text back to 1965. |
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NetLibrary Electronic Books |
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Full Text |
Ovid Nursing Full Text Plus provides full-text access to 33 research journals and 12 practitioner-oriented journals in the field of nursing, along with bibliographic records from over 400 other nursing journals. Full text articles date from 1995 to the present; indexing dates back to 1950. |
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PubMed |
Abstracts only |
PubMed indexes medical and life science journals back to the 1950's. |
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PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES |
Abstracts and selected full text |
References articles, book chapters, dissertations and reports of psychology literature in over 1,500 journals, from 1887 to the present. PsycARTICLES contains links to the full text of articles from journals published by American Psychological Association and its affiliates, from 1990 to the present. |
SAGE Premier |
Abstracts and full text |
Provides full text from 1999 through the present from hundreds
of leading peer-reviewed journals. SAGE journals cover business, humanities,
social science, criminology, science, technology and medicine. For a
complete list of titles, click here. |
Current Holy Family students, faculty, and staff may obtain the current database logins by contacting the Northeast Philadelphia Library (267-341-3315), Newtown LRC (267-341-4010) or by sending email to reference@holyfamily.edu.
Journals
Many nursing and health journals are available to the Holy Family
University community. Use our research databases above to find journal articles
on a specific topic.
If you know the name of the journal you need, try our Journal Locator.
If the library does not own the journal you need, try our Interlibrary Loan service.
Reference Sources
Science and health books are generally found in the
Q-R call number range. Nursing titles are generally concentrated in the
RT call number range. Look in the Family
Cat Library Catalog for more print resources in our collection.
American nursing: a biographical dictionary
Ref RT34 .A44
Encyclopedia of bioethics 3rd ed.
REF QH332 .E52 2004 V.1 2004
Encyclopedia of nursing research
Ref RT81.5 .E53 1998
Encyclopedia of infectious diseases
Ref RC112 .T87 1998
Gale encyclopedia of medicine
Ref RC41 .G35 1999
Historical encyclopedia of nursing
Ref RT31 .S66 1999
Microterrors : the complete guide to bacterial, viral and fungal
infections
Ref QR56 .H37 2004
Nursing care plans: nursing diagnosis and intervention
Ref RT49.N87 2003
About.com
- Nursing
Annotated links to information on a wealth of health topics.
Google
Web Directory for Nursing Information
Features links categorized by topic, from Care Plans to Volunteer Opportunities,
with much in between.
Hardin
MD
Produced by the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, this site links
to information on an array of medical topics and diseases. Most diseases
also include links to photographs.
Librarians'
Index to the Internet – Health
This site links to health sites on a wide array of topics. Browse by
subject, or search by your specific keyword.
Louis
Calder Memorial Library - catalog of Internet sites
This is a high-caliber site that is designed for general health care
information for both professionals and non-professionals. One will find
the medical links that are given by this site to be both timely and qualitatively
good.
Mayo
Health Clinic
The Mayo Health Clinic and a lot of information about different medical
conditions and diseases. A great site.
PubMed
Produced by the National Library of Medicine, this search interface provides
access to the Medline database of biomedical literature. It does not
link to full-text articles, but it is a very useful tool for finding
high-quality medical information.
Online
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
Medical
Encyclopedia (University of Maryland Medical System)
MedlinePlus
Medical Dictionary
MedlinePlus
Medical Encyclopedia
MedTerms Dictionary
On-Line
Medical Dictionary
Professional Organizations
American
College of Radiology
American Medical
Association
American Nurses Association
American Radiological
Nurses Association
American Red Cross
American Society of
Radiologic Technologists
Google's
Directory of Nursing Associations
National Association
of School Nurses
Sigma Theta Tau
International Honor Society of Nursing
NCLEX
National Council of State
Boards of Nursing
This organization is responsible for the NCLEX exams, and the site provides
useful information for those planning to take the exams.
NCLEX Course Review
Reviews and preparations for the NCLEX prepared by a nursing student for
the benefit of others.
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