Nursing Resources
Evidence-Based Practice
Evidence-Based Practice Tutorial
This University of Minnesota tutorial is designed for students in healthcare fields, medical professionals, faculty, and anyone else interested in evidence-based practice.
Evidence-Based Medicine
The University of Massachusetts medical school library’s EBM website contains essential EBM resources, best practices, and tutorials.
PICO Model
This website provides instructions for formulating patient-centered questions using the PICO model. From the University of Illinois at Chicago.
PICO – Asking the Clinical Question
This Yale University webpage provides examples of PICO formatted clinical questions.
Government Sources
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
This U.S. Department of Health & Human Services agency is the lead Federal agency charged with improving the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans.
ClinicalTrials.gov
ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry and results database of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and around the world. ClinicalTrials.gov gives you information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details.
Health Data Warehouse
Center for Disease Control and Prevention health topic data and statistics reports.
HealthCare.gov
This site contains Affordable Care Act information and health insurance coverage options.
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The NCCAM is the Federal Government's lead agency for scientific research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).
National Guideline Clearinghouse
Also from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, the NGC is a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
National Institutes of Health
An agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH is the Federal focal point for health research. The NIH website offers health information for the public as well as medical professionals.
PubMed
Access to MEDLINE, the world’s most extensive listing of medical journal articles. PubMed contains more than 21 million citations for biomedical literature. Citations may include links to free full-text content from PubMed Central.
TOXNET
Toxicology, environmental health, and chemical databases and other information resources from the Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program, National Library of Medicine, and the National Institutes of Health.
Journals – Free Full Text
CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
Official journal of the American Cancer Society. Provides up-to-date information on all aspects of cancer diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. Also contains annual cancer statistics and guidelines for cancer screening, prevention, and detection.
Canadian Medial Association Journal
This journal showcases research and ideas aimed at improving health.
Annals of Family Medicine
This research journal is dedicated to advancing knowledge essential to understanding and improving health and primary care.
PLoSMedicine
Public Library of Science Medicine provides an innovative and influential venue for research and comment on the major challenges to human health worldwide.
Medical Terminology
MedlinePlus Medical Dictionary
This dictionary contains definitions and spellings of medical words. It also includes audio pronunciations.
MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia
This online encyclopedia contains articles about diseases, test, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries.
MERCK Online Medical Manuals
An online medical library complete with sections, symptoms and disease subject index.
Pharmacology
DailyMed
The DailyMed is an NLM website that provides high quality information about marketed drugs. Includes labeling as found in medication package inserts.
DosageHelp.com
This website provides a dosage calculations tutorial, complete with explanations and examples, to help nursing students prepare for a medication exam.
Drug Information Portal
The NLM Drug Information Portal gives users a gateway to drug information from the National Library of Medicine and other key government agencies. More than 17,000 drugs can be searched. Includes clinical trial and scientific journal citations.
Professional Nursing Organizations
American Nursing Association
The ANA is involved in establishing standards of nursing practice, promoting the rights of nurses in the workplace, and advancing the economic and general welfare of nurses.
Arizona State Board of Nursing
The State Board of Nursing assures that standards of practice are met and that persons engaged in the practice of nursing are competent.
National Student Nurses Association
The NSNA is dedicated to fostering the professional development of nursing students.
Writing Resources
Basics of APA Tutorial
This shows users how to structure and format their work, recommends ways to reduce bias in language, identifies how to avoid charges of plagiarism, shows how to cite references in text, and provides selected reference examples.
Pima Community College – Plagiarism YouTube Video
This video provides examples of different types of plagiarism including buying term papers, copying and pasting without attribution, and paraphrasing without attribution.
Plagiarism.org
This site provides the latest information on online plagiarism and explains how Turnitin and iThenticate are now being used by educators and content creators all over the world to fight plagiarism and restore integrity to written work.
Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab) – Avoiding Plagiarism
There are few intellectual offenses more serious than plagiarism in academic and professional contexts. This resource offers advice on how to avoid plagiarism in your work.
Research and Documentation Online
Diana Hacker’s APA citation style guide. This site also offers sample papers with annotations to help with proper formatting.
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