Academic Search Premier (ASP) is a multidisciplinary scholarly database which contains 80 nursing journals, indexing and abstracting 120,000 nursing articles. ASP provides access to the full-text of articles for 73% of the titles indexed.

CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature PC

Peninsula College has CINAHL in print format from 1967 to 2000. CINAHL indexes publications in the fields of nursing and allied health.

· Credo Reference

Peninsula College Library offers students access to subject encyclopedias and concept maps through Credo Reference, which has over 3 million full text entries in 486 reference books. Credo Reference contains 8,124 entries on nursing, including definitions, articles, images, and audio. Health related dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks in Credo Reference include:

The American Heritage Medical Dictionary

Black's Medical Dictionary, 42nd Edition

Collins Dictionary of Medicine

Dictionary of Medical Terms

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary

Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, & Health Professions

Webster's New World™ Medical Dictionary

Churchill Livingstone's Dictionary of Nursing

Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary

Jablonski's Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations

Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary, Revised Edition

The Royal Society of Medicine Health Encyclopedia

The Royal Society of Medicine: Medicines

Mosby's Dictionary of Complementary and Alternative Medicine

International Dictionary of Homeopathy

Natural Medicine Instructions for Patients

Macmillan Dictionary of Toxicology

Mosby's Handbook of Herbs & Natural Supplements

Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine

New Harvard Guide to Women's Health, The

Mosby's Emergency Dictionary

The Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis

The Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease

Another feature of Credo Reference is the ability to create concept maps that link you instantly to topics in the reference sources. For example, this is part of a concept map created by Credo Reference on stoma care:

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· Directory of Open Access Journals Web

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) contains 25 open access nursing journals, all of which provide full-text of nursing articles. The aim of DOAJ is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals, thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content.

· Highwire Stanford University Web

HighWire Press is the largest archive of free full-text science on Earth! As of 6/4/10, we are assisting in the online publication of 1,999,432 free full-text articles and 6,352,819 total articles. 231,000 articles relate to nursing and include abstracts. Free full-text is provided for about 25% of the articles. Highwire provides a search option to include PubMed titles in the search results.

· ProQuest PC

ProQuest indexes 87,000 articles from 36 nursing publications. Full-text is provided for 76% of the articles indexed.

PubMed MEDLINE Web – (National Library of Medicine)
The primary database of information in medical and health sciences fields including the International Nursing Index (1980-1998), a subset of MEDLINE.

STTI Registry of Nursing Research Web
Searchable database of over 10,000 nursing research studies; from Sigma Theta Tau International, the International Honor Society of Nursing.

A-to-Z Electronic Journal Index PC

PC faculty, students and staff have access to full-text in 92 proprietary electronic journals in nursing. Use the A-to-Z Electronic Journal Index to determine which Peninsula College database contains a specific nursing journal. Use A-to-Z when you know the title of a journal, such as in known-item searches. Note: A-to-Z is used to search for journal titles, not for subject searches, in order to find the database containing the full text of articles from a specific journal.

Other freely available online nursing titles Web

online books

· Ebrary Academic Complete and NetLibrary PC

Ebrary has 4,224 e-books related to medicine, nursing, and public health and PC’s NetLibrary collection has over 140 books related to nursing, such as:

Advanced Nursing Skills: Principles and Practice
Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives for Advanced Nursing Practice
The Care of Wounds: A Guide for Nurses
A Caring Approach in Nursing Administration
Pharmacological Aspects of Nursing Care
Fundamentals of Nursing Research

Online Books Page Web

In the subject section for Medicine (R) are a number of nursing titles available freely on the World Wide Web.

· Peninsula College Library Catalog PC

The Library collection has hundreds of current nursing e-books (published within the last five years) which you can access through the library catalog.

o Nursing.

Search Also Under:

subdivision Nursing under individual diseases, e.g. Cancer--Nursing; and subdivision Diseases--Nursing under individual organs and regions of the body, e.g. Heart--Diseases--Nursing

§ Communication in nursing

§ Community health nursing

§ Intensive care nursing

§ Maternity nursing

§ Neurological nursing

§ Nursing assessment.

§ Nursing diagnosis.

§ Ophthalmic nursing.

§ Pediatric nursing.

§ Psychiatric nursing.

§ Public health nursing

§ Rehabilitation nursing

§ Surgical nursing.

Sample of print books published in 2010 in the Peninsula College Library:

§ Brunner & Suddarth's textbook of medical-surgical nursing.

§ Contemporary maternal-newborn nursing care / Wieland Ladewig

§ Handbook of nursing diagnosis / Lynda Juall Carpenito-Moyet

§ Lippincott manual of nursing practice

§ Nutrition essentials for nursing practice / Susan G. Dudek

Sample of e-books in Peninsula College Library:

§  Cancer in children and young people : acute nursing care

§  Caring for people with chronic conditions : a health system perspective

§  Developing online learning environments in nursing education

§  Foundations of nursing : an integrated approach

§  Gerontological nurse certification review

§  I.V. therapy demystified

§  Leadership and management skills for long-term care

§  Middle range theory for nursing

§  Mindfulness-based elder care : a CAM model for frail elders and their caregivers

§  Nurse executive : the four principles of management

§  Nursing leadership : a concise encyclopedia

§  Nursing policy research : turning evidence-based research into health policy

§  Occupational health nursing

§  Pathophysiology review

§  Stoma care

cultural competence

Cultural Competence Resources Web
Extensive bibliography compiled by the Health Sciences Library at the University of Buffalo. The Office of Minority Health defines culturally competent healthcare as "services that are respectful of and responsive to the health beliefs and practices, and cultural and linguistic needs of diverse patient populations." OMH also states: "Cultural and linguistic competence is the ability of health care providers and health care organizations to understand and respond effectively to the cultural and linguistic needs brought by patients to the health care encounter."

evidence-based nursing

· Cochrane Collaboration Web

Cochrane review abstracts and plain language summaries based on reviews in the Cochrane Library. The Cochrane Collaboration is an international network of individuals and institutions committed to preparing, maintaining, and disseminating systematic, up-to-date reviews of the effects of health care.

Nursing Resources for Evidence Based Practice Web
Resource guide of links to nursing resources, compiled by librarians at Tompkins-McCaw Library at Virginia Commonwealth University, covers topics such as evidence based practice definitions, filters and tools, databases, models and best practice guidelines.

evaluating resources

Evaluating the Literature: Quality Filtering Web

What is a scholarly journal? Web

What Do You Do When Your Instructor Says to Read a Scholarly Article?

Reading Web

How to Read a Paper: Getting Your Bearings (deciding what the paper is about) by Trisha Greenhalgh . Originally published in the British Medical Journal, on how to read a research paper.

Citing: Source Documentation Using APA Web

Find It! Citing Sources

Scroll down the page to find a printable guide (in both PDF and HTML) of examples of citations in APA format (based on the 6^th ed., 2010)

Critical Thinking Web

nursing care plans Web

nursing ethics Web

Center for Ethics & Human Rights
Site for the American Nurses Association's Center
Nursing Ethics.ca
Canadian site on nursing ethics
National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature (NRCBL)
Links to bioethics literature compiled by the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University

nursing research Web

Agency for Healthcase Research and Quality
Links to Nursing Research resources from AHRQ
Eastern Nursing Research Society
Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS) is a forum for nurse researchers to promote and support regional nursing research in the Northeastern United States.
National Institute of Nursing Research
Registry of Nursing Research
The Registry of Nursing Research is an electronic research resource that is maintained by Sigma Theta Tau International

Nursing Employment Web

Nurse Web Search : Health: Nursing Jobs - Nurse Employment

nursing specialties Web

Additional information can be found on the web sites of the various nursing specialty groups

nursing theory Web

The Nursing Theory Page
Links to nursing theory sites hosted by Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science at the University of San Diego
Nursing Theory Link Page
Site prepared by Clayton College and State University Department of Nursing
Nursing Theory Page
Links to resources on nursing theorists compiled by NurseScribe

pda nursing resources Web

PDA Guide for Nursing
Compiled by the Yale University Library
Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs)
Prepared by the Oklahoma University College of Nursing and includes tutorials, hardware and software information as well as links to other resources.

Professional organizations Web

Specialty Groups Web

Washington State professional organizations Web

· Washington State Nurses Association

· Inland Empire Nurses Association

history of nursing Web

History of Nursing Resources
Links to history of nursing resources compiled by the Tompkins-McCaw Library at Virginia Commonwealth University

Internet guides Web

Allnurses.com
Includes links to associations, nursing schools, boards of nursing, nursing employment, nursing literature, nursing humor and more. 423,239 Nurses talking about nursing