Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Mosby’s Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary, 6th ed. , R 610 MOS 2002

Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing & Allied Health, R 610.73 GEN 2002

Black’s Medical Dictionary, 39th ed. , R 610.3 BLA 1999

Stedman's Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing, 5th ed. , R 610.3 STE 2005

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Handbooks
Clinical Nursing Skills: basic to advanced skills, 5th ed. 610.73 Smi

Handbook of Nursing Diagnosis, 8th ed. 616.07 Car

Nurses Guide to Clinical Procedures, 610.73 Smi

Basic Nursing: Essentials for Practice, 5th ed. R 610.7 Pot 2003

Nurse’s Manual of Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures, 616.07 Mal

Clinical Applications of Nursing Diagnosis: Adult, Child, Women’s, Psychiatric, Gerontic, and Home Health Considerations, 4th ed. R 610.73 Cox 2002

Clinical Drug Therapy: Rationales for Nursing Practice, 6th ed. R 615.1 Deg 2003

Laboratory & Diagnostic Test with Nursing Implications, 5th ed. R 616.07 Kee

The Physicians’ Desk Reference, R 615.19 Phy 2005

Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses, R 615.1 Deg 2003

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Test Preparation
LearningExpressLibrary.com
Practice tests for NCLEX, Nursing Continuing Education, and Nurse Aide/Nursing Assistant are offered on this site. Access is available through your Pipeline. You must create an account in Learning Express Library to take the tests.

Saunders Q&A Review for NCLEX-RN, 610.7 SIL 2002

NCLEX-RN, 610.73 NCL

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Periodical Databases – Databases are available off campus through Pipeline. Click here for information on how to access the databases off campus.

Health Reference Center – Academic & Health and Wellness Resource Center.
Both databases incorporate general interest and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books and pamphlets. Reference books are fulltext and include such titles as Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine and Mosby’s Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary. Although both databases contain the same information, each has a very different format. Check both to find which one works best for you. Both are available through the InfoTrac link.

ProQuest Nursing Journals.
Offers full text coverage from 390 publications with a date range from 1992 to present. Some sample journals are Nursing, Nurse Practitioner, RN, and Nursing Diagnosis.

EBSCO Health Source – Nursing/Academic Ed.
This database provides over 550 full text scholarly journals from the medical field. It also includes Clinical Pharmacology, a database of drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs and Stedman’s Medical Dictionary.

Medline.
This online database by the National Library of Medicine is the most comprehensive medical database available. There are 9, 580 information sources dating from 1965 to the present available. Although much of Medline is not full text, check the other three databases for the full text articles or make an InterLibrary Loan request.

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Internet Sites
Nursing World, American Nurses Association (ANA)
Professional organization representing registered nurses in all 53 states and provides links to many nursing resources, as well as links to federal offices, agencies and legislative sites.

Kansas State Nurses Association (KSNA)
Professional organization of registered nurses in Kansas.

HealthWeb: Nursing
This guide is maintained by the Taubman Medical Library, University of Michigan and HealthWeb. It provides web resources on nursing careers, discussion groups, electronic journals, and web sites pertaining to all areas of nursing.