Information for PPCC Nursing Students

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Subscription Databases

 CINAHL Plus with Full Text
World's most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for more than 640 journals.  Also includes Evidence-Based Care Sheets (the latest evidence, statistics, research and references on a given topic) and Quick Lessons (overviews of diseases, syndromes and conditions).

Consumer Health Complete

Consumer Health Complete™ (CHC) is the single most comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content.

Credo Reference

Credo Reference is a vast, online reference library, providing access to the full text of hundreds of highly regarded and popular titles.  Includes many medical dictionaries.

Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)

EBP gathers together research evidence and the advice of experts to develop guidelines for care plans.

Cochrane Library Reviews

http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/
Free summaries from the Cochrane Library, a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases.

The National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC)

http://www.guideline.gov/
A comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents.

PubMed for Evidence-Based Practice Information

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/clinical.shtml#reviews
This is a service of the National Library of Medicine, and the National Institutes of Health. PubMed Central (see tip sheet above) is a full-text subset of this larger database. Most PubMed records include at least a summary of the article or report. Use the search box for “Find Systematic Reviews” to find EBP information.

Good Free Internet Nursing Websites

About Nursing
http://nursing.about.com/
Newsy website that shares information on being a nurse. Maintained by a paid nurse moderator.

Human Anatomy Online

http://www.innerbody.com/index.html
“Animations, 100’s of graphics, and thousands of descriptive links.”

National Center for Health Statistics

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus.htm
The nation’s principal health statistics agency.

National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. (NCSBN)

https://www.ncsbn.org/index.htm
The association that is responsible for the NCLEX tests.

PDRhealth
PDRhealth is the consumer Web portal of the Physicians’ Desk Reference (PDR®), which has provided trusted and authoritative drug and clinical information to physicians for over 60 years.

RN Magazine

http://www.rnweb.com/rnweb/static/staticHtml.jsp?id=118835
Free continuing education articles from RN magazine.