Select Databases Relevant to Nursing

• Academic Search Premier
  Covers a wide range of academic areas including arts, business, communication, education, humanities, language and linguistics, literature, sciences, social sciences, technology and women's studies. Full text is provided for more than 2,330 journals dating back to 1990. Academic Search Premier allows you to limit search results to scholarly or peer-reviewed journals.


• CINAHL(Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) (OvidSP search engine)


• Cochrane Library
  The Cochrane Library contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It includes reliable evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more. Cochrane reviews bring you the combined results of the world's best medical research studies, and are recognised as the gold standard in evidence-based health care. To view information on other products in the Cochrane Library, visit Description of Cochrane Resources.


• Drug Information ToolKit Databases


• Dynamed
  This point-of-use evidence based medicine resource is available as a web-based and PDA product. See the Resources for the PDA section of this toolkit for the direct link to the PDA download page.
  Dynamed covers over 1,800 medical topics, including drug topics. To date Dynamed has 143 summaries under the category of Drugs. These summaries represent unique Dynamed content and focus on drug classes, but some individual drug overviews exist. An example is the warfarin (Coumadin) summary which contains valuable drug information such as management of overcoagulation with warfarin. Also extensive drug summaries are incorporated into disease and condition monographs of Dynamed. Dynamed drug information is updated as new evidence is identified in the literature.


• eMedicine (free version from Internet)
  eMedicine presents a collection of monographs that cover 65 professional specialties and three consumer areas, complete with full streaming video, audio, and color images suitable for clinical and teaching purposes. It contains a section of Tools, such as Case of the Week.


• Essential Evidence Plus (formerly InfoRetriever)


• First Consult
  A web and PDA based clincial information system that provides continuously updated, evidence-based. guidance on the latest in patient evaluation, diagnosis, and management. Designed for rapid access at the point of patient care.
  Note: You may also access FIRSTConsult by logging in to your MD Consult account and clicking on the FIRSTConsult logo in the upper right hand corner of the page.


• Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI) (OvidSP search engine)
  Provides access to information on measurement instruments (i.e. questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.


• Health Reference Center-Academic


• Health and Wellness Resource Center


• Medline (OvidSP search engine)
  Medline is a search product from the National Library of Medicine. Like many search products it can be viewed on many platforms. You may already be familiar with using Medline on the PubMed "platform."


• Natural Medicine's Comprehensive Database


• Proquest Social Science Journals
  Provides access to more than 160 key journals for the study of social sciences. Subjects include anthropology, community health and medical care, family studies, gender studies, international relations, minority studies, psychiatry, social work and more.


• PubMed
  The PubMed link above possesses a different web address than the PubMed you've no doubt used as a member of the public. This PubMed link allows you to perform your PubMed search as usual, but view a UMDNJ icon denoting full-text access to UMDNJ journal holdings when available.


• NORD's Rare Disease Database


• PsycINFO (OvidSP search engine)
  PsycINFO allows you to limit search results to scholarly or peer-reviewed journals.


• Web of Science
  ISI Web of Science is the web-based version of the Science Citation Index Expanded and the Social Sciences Citation Index. It covers over 6,000 U.S. and international, multidisciplinary journals. This database is useful for tracking citations in the published literature with some unique features. Related Records locates articles that have cited references in common; and Times Cited provides a list of articles that cite a source article. Also, try Journal Citation Reports' Additional Resources tab in Web of Science to determine top nursing journals you may wish to publish in.

Select Electronic Books*

• The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult, 3rd ed., 2003 (OvidSP)
• Basic & Clinical Pharmacology, 9th ed., 2004 (AccessMedicine)
• Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, 10th ed., 2004 (STAT!Ref)
• Drug Facts and Comparisons Pocket Version, 2004 (OvidSP)
• Danforth's Obstetrics and Gynecology, 9th ed. 2003 (OvidSP)
• Drug Information Toolkit Electronic Books
• Harrison's Online, 16th ed., 2005 (AccessMedicine)
• Irwin & Rippe's Intensive Care Medicine, 5th ed., 2003 (OvidSP)
• Lippincott's Cancer Chemotherapy Handbook, 2nd ed., 2001 (OvidSP)
• Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice, 7th ed., 2001 (OvidSP)
• Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide, 2004 (OvidSP)
• Manual of Clinical Oncology, 5th ed. 2004 (OvidSP)
• Manual of Laboratory & Diagnostic Tests, 7th ed., 2004 (OvidSP)
• Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease, 9th ed., 1999 (OvidSP)
• Nursing Care Plans and Documentation, 4th ed. 2004 (OvidSP)

*As noted above the electronic textbooks listed are a few of the e-book titles that nursing students and nurse clinicians/practitioners may find relevant to their field. Please check the AccessMedicine, Books@Ovid and Stat!Ref platforms for other pertinent electronic books.

Select Electronic Journals

• ADVANCES IN NURSING SCIENCE
• CANCER NURSING
• JOURNAL OF MIDWIFERY AND WOMEN'S HEALTH
• JOURNAL OF NURSING ADMINISTRATION: JONA
• NURSING OUTLOOK
• NURSING RESEARCH
• RESEARCH IN NURSING AND HEALTH

Information for the Patient

• First Consult (Brief, succinct topical drug information, PDA downloads, easy to print patient handouts)
• HealthyNJ
• MDConsult (Includes full-text drug information and patient hand-outs)
• MedlinePlus
• National Health Information Center's HealthFinder
• NOAH-New York Online Access to Health
• Virtual Hospital
  This link is no longer being updated due to lack of funding, but many Virtual Hospital pages and resources are still available online and worth a look.

Resources for PDAs or Handheld Devices

• UMDNJ Libraries PDA Resources for Nursing
  Definitely check out this PDA document. It offers quick tips for getting started with PDAs and other mobile devices, as well as brief information to facilitate downloading top PDA resource such as Dynamed and Essential Evidence Plus, both evidence-based medicine products containing drug, disease and laboratory information to inform patient care decisions.


• UMDNJ-School of Nursing (SON) PDA Page
  Do not miss checking out this page. It includes information on required PDA software (Lexi-Comp, Lippincott, Typhon) and hardware for SON students, PDA tips, and a PowerPoint on getting oriented to Palm TX.


• Dynamed for PDA
  This point-of-use evidence based medicine resource is available as a web-based and PDA product. See UMDNJ Libraries PDA Resources for download instructions.
  Dynamed covers over 1,800 medical topics, including drug topics. To date Dynamed has 143 summaries under the category of Drugs. These summaries represent unique Dynamed content and focus on drug classes, but some individual drug overviews exist. An example is the warfarin (Coumadin) summary which contains valuable drug information such as management of overcoagulation with warfarin. Also extensive drug summaries are incorporated into disease and condition monographs of Dynamed. Dynamed drug information is updated as new evidence is identified in the literature.


• Epocrates
  Epocrates RX Pro drug reference is part of Epocrates Essentials which also includes disease and diagnostic reference for PDA and in Epocrates RX Online. RX Pro includes a nursing IV products section--complete with an IV drip rate calculator and IV compatibility checker. Lastly, a free download of Epocrates Rx is currently available for Palm OS and now finally for Pocket PC! See UMDNJ Libraries PDA Resources for more free resources for handheld or mobile devices.


• Essential Evidence Plus (formerly InfoRetriever)
  This evidence-based resource includes filtered, synopsized, evidence-based information. A search in Essential Evidence Plus retrieves relevant results from multiple areas: EBM Guidelines; Daily POEMs; Cochrane Abstracts; Selected Practice Guidelines; Decision Support Calculators; H&P Calculators; Diagnostic Test Calculators; Derm Expert; E/M Coding; ICD-9 Lookup Tool. See UMDNJ Libraries PDA Resources for download instructions.


• PEPID
  This point-of-care resource is similar to Lexi-Comp and Epocrates. PEPID resources offer a drug, disease and laboratory datbase in a variety of specialty PDA and Online product suites--e.g. PEPID RN for nurses and PEPID SCC, a Student Clinical Companion for nursing students.

University Resources

• Black Nurses in History


• Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center
  A collaboration site between University of California San Francisco and University of Medicine and Dentistry's François-Xavier Bagnoud Center (FXBC) focusing on providing information such as guidelines, journal scans, training and community education materials with regards to women, children and HIV.


• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996


• UMDNJ Libraries Toolkits and Webliographies


• UMDNJ's University Hospital's Careers in Nursing

World Wide Web Nursing Resources

Five Hot Topics and Corresponding Web Sites

Delegation • Informatics/Telemedicine • Nutrition • Politics • Research

Delegation

New Jersey Nurse Practice Act

Informatics/Telemedicine

American Medical Informatics Association

American Nursing Informatics Association

Association of Telehealth Service Providers (ATSP)

Healthcare Informatics Online

Nursing Informatics Conference Listing

Telemedicine Information Exchange

Nutrition

FDA Food Safety Center

Nutrition Navigator--Rating Guide to Nutrition Websites

Politics

American Nurses Association--Nursing Trends and Issues page

Library of Congress-Branches of Government page

U. S. Copyright Office

Thomas-U.S.Congress
The Government Printing Office (GPO) provides the latest information regarding U.S. legislation--from both the Senate and House for this site. See the latest proposed, as well as passed healthcare legislation among other bills.

U. S. House of Representatives Code

U.S. Supreme Court

The White House

Research

Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research
This site includes a publication list of research in the health service area from University of Pennsylvania's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research. Specific publications may be requested via the email provided near the citation. Also follow the Site Map link to peruse "Research Portfolio: Current Grants" secured by this group and who has given out grant funding for this type of outcomes research.

National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities

National Institute of Nursing Research

Abbreviations and Calculators Online

Abbreviations--University of Iowa Family Practice Handbook, Fourth Edition
This link is part of the Virtual Hospital website. Virtual Hospital is no longer being updated due to lack of funding, but many Virtual Hospital web pages and resources are still available online and worth a look.

FIRSTConsult
This UMDNJ subscription database contains a section called FIRSTConsult Handheld which makes available about 20 free medical calulators for download to one's PDA.

Medi-Lexicon

Martindale's Medical, Health and Nutrition Calculators

Government, Organization and Professional Sites

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Find latest information on travel health, vaccines and immunization and much more including health statistics. Please also see our UMDNJ Libraries Statistics Resources.

Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services

iVillage Total Health - Health Centers

HeartPoint Online

Department of Health and Human Services

Drugs.com
This site is not wholly comprehensive, but boasts the inclusion of information on over 24,000 drugs. Nursing students will appreciate the New Drugs tab highlighting newly approved drugs for the current year and previous two to three years. For more websites with drug monographs, visit the Drug Information Toolkit.

Helene Fuld Health Trust
Aids with monies for nursing education and student nurses. Visit the Grants and Funds Toolkit for more potential sources.

Interagency Council on Information Resources in Nursing (ICIRN)--Essential Nursing Resources

International Nursing Honor Society--Sigma Theta Tau
Visit the Virginia Henderson International Library area on this site. One section in this library to look forward to is the Registry of Nursing Research (RNR).

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

Medscape for Nurses
Register for free access to this site--part of the larger Medscape network brought to you by WebMD. Do check out Medscape's Drug Interaction Checker.

Merck Manuals Online

National Guideline Clearinghouse
Definitely consider visting the Physician's Core Toolkit for similar resources used in answering clinical questions. Further, many evidence-based practice links to resources that are applicable to nurses, especially APNs in the clinical setting are highlighted in the Core Toolkit.

National Institutes of Health
Visit the Grants and Funds Toolkit for more like this.

New Jersey Board of Nursing

New Jersey Nursing Students, Inc.

Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs
Producers of the site highlight helping both consumers and prescribers to realize "evidence-based" or proven alternatives to common drug prescriptions.

Needy Meds
Use this site to find the right patient assistance programs that can cover full price of a drug for eligible patients.

Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)
Visit the patient assistance directory on this site.

Pillbot

Nursing Grand Rounds
This continuing education site comes from The University of Arizona College of Nursing. Education sessions are brought to you via live streaming video around the first to second week of each month. The Grand Rounds page does list an archive of past presentations for viewing at your leisure. If you like Arizona's Grand Rounds, also check out Dartmouth's Nursing Rounds.

U.S. Census Bureau
The Census is a useful site for looking up some health and social statistics of populations, including minority groups. Nurse leaders may want to visit the link under Customer Service entitled Using Data Effectively in the About the Bureau section for ideas regarding use of Census information to aid in novel programs targeting specific population needs. Also visit FedStats in the Related Sites section on the Bureau page.

Portals to Nursing Information

AEGIS-AIDS Education Global Information System

All Nurses.com
This site is a nursing portal that includes links to U.S. and International boards of nursing. Other links include those for nursing humor, history, nursing schools and specialty nursing sites.

Evidence-Based Nursing

Evidence-Based Nursing Research Resources

Evidence-Based Practice Resource Center
The above is a link to an Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) graphing coming from the United Kingdom's Middlesex University and supported by the Research Centre for Transcultural Studies in Health.

Hardin MD
This University of Iowa site is organized by subject clusters such as AIDS, Heart Disease and Womens Health. Links from many web sites including medical images on subject clusters make this site a gem. Also, the bottom of most subject cluster pages offers a link for retrieving free PubMed articles on the subject.

HealthWeb Nursing
Portal to health information on the Internet. This specific link should bring you to a listing of nursing specific topics including Nursing Informatics, Evidence-Based Nursing, and Psychiatric Nursing. Click on each topic of interest for web sites pertaining to that area. HealthWeb also offers links to Nursing Organizations such as the American Nurses Associations, National State Board of Nursing (NCLEX) and National League of Nursing. Lastly, this site offers a search box for locating specific health information resources.

Intute
This site formerly called NMAP is a resource from the UK on Nursing, Midwifery, and Allied Health information on the web.

Martindale's Virtual Nurse Center

Medi-Smart
Free continuing education (C.E.) site links include MMWR (from CDC), Medscape (from WebMD) and Power-Pak.

MDChoice.com
Enter this portal via the link for a consumer or health professional. The health professional view offers an "UltraWeb Search," area to look for continuing education, and some unique columns such as "Tricks of the Trade." The Advanced Cardiac Life Support CyberPatient Simulator is also worth reviewing.

NP Central.net
This site was created by nurse practitioners for nurse practitioners.

Nursing Center
This is your portal to nursing journal articles from the publisher Lippincott Willliams & Wilkins, as well as links to continuing education or C.E. credits and a career/employment center.

Nursing Theory Page
This site provides information on select nursing theorists (Examples include Virginia Henderson, Imogene King and Hildegard E. Peplau.) and their respective models. From the Theory Page, you can link out to many other nursing theory sites on the web.

RxList
This easy to use site possessing a fairly clean interface includes drug monographs, patient education, and top 200 prescribed drugs. The search engine employs "fuzzy logic" to find sound alike terms - useful for hard to spell drug names. Some outdated references, as drug knowledge landscape has potential to change daily. Visit the Drug Information Toolkit for more like this.

Yahoo! Health
This portal area includes link to Alternative Medicine, Diseases and Conditions and a Nursing link which includes sub-categories such as Nursing Organizations.

Select E-journals, Online News and Writing Resources

Advance for Nurses

Find Articles.com

Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences
Use this site from the Mulford Library (Medical University at Ohio in Toledo), to link to over 3,500 health and life science journal publisher websites, where one can locate submission guidelines for those specific health science journals. Type a journal name in the "Journal Title Search" box and you can retrieve a page with instructions for submitting a manuscript to that particular publication, including the bibliographic style expected for references in your submission.

New Jour
Provides a listing of newly added electronic journals and newsletters available on the Internet from a whole host of disciplines, but there is also an archival alphabetical list of online journals and newsletters. Searchers beware the alphabetical list is lengthy, so consider using the New Jour search box to locate specific journals on your topic of interest. Also, not all available issues for listed Internet titles are free, but some are. A recent search on diabetes yielded at least 41 journal and/or newsletter titles from American Diabetes Association's Clinical Diabetes to Journal of Diabetes and its Complications.

Nurse Author & Editor Journal Directory
Initially a print publication, this online resource supports nurses' writing, reviewing and editing. The Journals Directory link on this site is useful to view manuscript submission guidelines for listed titles.

Nurse Week