Nursing for Graduate Programs

• General Resources & Indexes
• Nursing Theorists & Leaders
• Community Health Links
• Statistical Sources - Health Related
• Departments, Agencies & Organizations
• Databases

General Resources & Indexes

• AllNurses.com
  Index to nursing web sites. Discussions on nursing topics.
• Duke University School of Nursing Information Page
  Links to government, medical, clinical sources, and research grant information.
• HealthFinder
  Index to health information and organizations.
• Medscape
  Medical information and full-text articles; requires free registration.
• Merck & Co.
  Provides access to the 17th edition of the tried and true Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, The Merck Manual of Medical Information, Home Edition (2nd. ed.), The Merck Manual of Geriatrics (3rd ed.), and The Merck Index (13th ed.). Users may browse each index and table of contents or search by keyword.
• NursingCenter.com
  (Lippincott) News, resources, and links to professional organizations and online journals.

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Nursing Theorists & Leaders

• International Consortium of Parse Scholars
  Resources, organizations, and book lists relating to the Parse Theory.
• Medi-Smart Nursing History Page
  Excellent collection of links to nursing history pages.
• Nursing History Resources
  From the American Association for the History of Nursing.
  Includes Gravesites of Prominent Nurses
• Nursing Theory Page
  (University of San Diego) Covers nursing leaders, models and theories. Includes bibliographies to print sources.

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Community Health Links

• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
  Federal programs and assistance available to the public.
• Federal Budget Information
• Health, United States, 2006
  (with Chartbook) Statistical companion to Healthy People. Previous years available: 1993-2005 (with Chartbooks); 1975-1992 (without Chartbooks). (NOTE: Many files on this site are large PDF files which take a long time to download and print.
• Healthy People 2000
• Healthy People 2010
  Statistical companion to Healthy People. Previous years available: 1993-2005 (with Chartbooks); 1975-1992 (without Chartbooks). (NOTE: Many files on this site are large PDF files which take a long time to download and print.
• Massachusetts Budget & Policy Information
  Links to publications and related web sites.

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Statistical Sources - Health Releated

• America's Children
  (Forum on Child and Family Statistics) Statistics on health, education, welfare of U.S. youth; part of ChildStats.
• Atlas of United States Mortality
  (NCHS) Causes of death by county.
• Data and Statistics
  (CDC) Statistics arranged according to topics.
• MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
  (CDC) Covers current health issues, and gives weekly and year-to-date mortality statistics of major U.S. cities.
• National Center for Health Statistics
  Main clearinghouse for health-related statistics.
• Older Americans 2000: Key Indicators of Well-Being
  (NCHS) Statistics on health, education, welfare of U.S. older Americans.

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Departments, Agencies & Organizations

• American Holistic Nurses Association
• American Medical Association
• American Nurses Association
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Department of Health and Human Services
• HHS Agencies
• Massachusetts Nurses Association
• National Library of Medicine - Health Information (databases and indexes on-line)
• OSHA Health Care Facilities Regulations
• U.S. Public Health Service

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Databases

• CINAHL
  On and Off Campus Access
  CINAHL, provides indexing and abstracts for over 1,700 current nursing and allied health journals and other publications dating back to 1982, and contains over 920,000 records. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. Please ask at the Reference Desk for the username and password.
• Clinical Pharmacology
  On and Off Campus Access
  Clinical Pharmacology provides access up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs. For off campus access, please contact the Reference Desk for the username and password.
• Expanded Academic Index
  On and Off Campus Access
  (1980 to present) Indexes general interest magazines and core scholarly journals from all subject areas. Many articles in Full Text. Regis barcode required to access this database from off campus.
• Health Reference Center - Academic
  On and Off Campus Access
  (1980-present) Includes medical reference books, pamphlets, and medical magazines. Includes many Full Text periodicals. Information can be found here on specific illnesses, medical terminology, drug information, medical tests, wellness, and health-related organizations. Regis barcode required to access this database from off campus.
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
  On and Off Campus Access
  This database provides nearly 600 scholarly Full Text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis. For off campus access, please contact the Reference Desk for the username and password.
• New! Joanna Briggs Institute
  On and Off Campus Access
  The Joanna Briggs Institute was established in recognition of a need for evaluation of evidence derived from a diverse range of sources, including experience, expertise and all forms of rigorous research and the translation, transfer and utilisation of the "best available" evidence into health care practice. The website provides access to best practice information sheets, systematic reviews, evauation cycle reports, online practice manuals, CIS database and interventions. Please contact the Reference Desk for the username and password.
• LexisNexis Academic - Medical
  On Campus Access | Off Campus Access
  Find full text news articles from medical & health journals. Regis email username and password required to access this database from off campus.
• New! Medline Full Text
  On and Off Campus Access
  MEDLINE with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for nearly 1,200 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Of those, more than 1,000 have cover-to-cover indexing in MEDLINE. With more than 1,400,000 full-text articles dating back to 1965, MEDLINE with Full Text is the definitive research tool for medical literature. Please ask at the Reference Desk for the username and password.
• PubMed
  On and Off Campus Access
  (1965 to present) Indexes over 4,800 journals worldwide in all areas of medicine.

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