Nursing Resources
Books and Videos
- Athena : Midway College Library Catalog
- WorldCat - Search a catalog of books and other materials from libraries worldwide via FirstSearch. This database is used for requesting books for interlibrary loan.
- NetLibrary - A collection of full-text electronic books.
- CINAHL with Full Text CINAHL with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 520 journals indexed in CINAHL. CINAHL Tutorial
- Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition Provides nearly 500 scholarly full text journals covering many medical disciplines. Also, includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide which covers 1,300 generic drug patient sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
- MEDLINE via EBSCOhost MEDLINE, created by the National Library of Medicine, provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. No full-text articles.
- MEDLINE via PubMed
- Salem Health Salem Health brings online access to Salem Press’ award-winning health reference work Magill’s Medical Guide.
- Academic Search Premier This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles.
A collection of anatomy and histology links from academic sources. Created by the University Library of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
American Association of Critical Care Nurses
This is the AACCN’s professional website. It provides the latest news for nurses in the Critical Care field and offers searching and full text articles of the CCN journal.
Americian Association of Neuroscience Nurses
The professional website of the AANN provides users with access to indexes from 2001-2006 of the Journal of Neuroscience Nursing.
This is the American Nurses Association’s official website. It provides the latest news for nurses, as well as resources dealing with careers and credentialing, nursing practice, health care Policy, Government Affairs and Occupational and Environment.
Association of Rehabilitation Nurses
The official site of the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses. It provides users with free access to an index of articles from the Rehabilitation Nursing Journal from 2001-2006. It also allows users to look at role descriptions and position statements on topics from the ARN for free.
Connects college and university students with entry-level nursing, healthcare and allied health jobs, internships, and career opportunities at leading global companies.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The CDC provides fact sheets, information and statistics on diseases and chronic conditions. The full text of "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report" and "Emerging Infections Diseases" is also available.
The official site of the Emergency Nurses Association provides access to a handful of free articles from the JEN. It also allows user to view the journal index of JEN from 1996-2002 for free. Users can also read the EDNA newsletter Newsbytes for free.
- Free Medical Journals
This site provides links to approximately 1,000 medical journals that are available on the Internet in full text for free. There is no keyword search, rather you browse by title to be taken to that journal's web site.
healthfinder.gov is recognized as a key resource for finding the best government and nonprofit health and human services information on the Internet.
Consumer healthcare guide to researching hospitals, nursing homes and physicians; finding hospital quality ratings; and, locating physicians in your area by field of practice.
- MEDLINEplus
Online health information, including a medical encyclopedia and medical dictionary.
Nurse Practitioners Support Services
This website provides clinical, organizational, educational, and job-related information on nursing. It has resources and references of interest for nurses, as well as a list of nurse practitioner journals.
- Nursing sites on the WWW
A compilation of nursing websites from the University of Buffalo.
This is the Oncology Nursing Society’s official website. It provides links to cancer news and research sites that have been reviewed by the ONS editorial board. It also provides access to patient education resources on the web that have also been reviewed by the editorial board.
Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society
The WOCN Society is a professional nursing society that supports its members by promoting educational, clinical and research opportunities to advance the practice and guide the delivery of expert health care to individuals with wounds, ostomies and incontinence.