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(More Info)	American Association of Colleges of Nursing
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is the national voice for America's baccalaureate- and higher-degree nursing education programs. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	American Journal of Nursing
The American Journal of Nursing is the official journal of the American Nurses Association. It is the oldest and largest nursing journal in the world. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	American Nurses Association
The ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the economic and general welfare of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and by lobbying the Congress and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and the general public" (from the web site). Read the full annotation

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AnatomyTV (Primal Pictures)

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APA PsycINFO (ProQuest)

(More Info)	BiologyBrowser
A portal designed "to connect life sciences researchers with free, useful resources and other like-minded scientists from all around the world." Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Canadian Nurses Association
The Canadian Nurses Association is a federation of 11 provincial and territorial nursing associations representing more than 123,000 registered nurses. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Center for Disease Control
Extensive information about health and disease, from the federal Center for Disease Control. Read the full annotation

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CINAHL Plus with Fulltext (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) (EBSCO)

(More Info)	Coronavirus Research Database (ProQuest)
The Coronavirus Research Database provides authoritative, comprehensive coverage of COVID-19 and other past coronavirus outbreaks for context around the current global pandemic. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Ejournal Locator (SFX)
The Hekman Library ejournal locator provides title and subject access to all the electronic journals subscribed to by the Hekman Library. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition
The Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition is broad based and covers a variety of nutrition related topics. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Food and Drug Administration
The 'Drugs' link on this site provides extensive information, such as the Drug Approvals list (for FDA approved drugs), the National Drug Code Directory, regulatory information, and extensive links to OTC and prescription drug information for health professionals and patients. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCO)
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides access to hundreds of full-text scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines, specifically nursing and allied health. Coverage for this database extends from 1958 - present. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	HealthWeb: Nursing : Clinical Resources
Provided by the Taubman Medical Library at the University of Michigan, this site offers resources in many different topics such as research, education programs, and nursing schools in U.S. and other countries. Read the full annotation

Holistic Nursing Practice

(More Info)	INFOMINE: Biological, Agricultural, and Medical Sciences
INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the college and university level. Read the full annotation

International Parish Nurse Resource Center

Journal of Christian Nursing

(More Info)	Lippincott's Complete Nursing Reference on CD-ROM [Electronic Resource]
Designed in an easy-to-read outline format, this guide covers a wide range of disorders and patient problems in all basic areas of nursing, including medical-surgical, pediatric, maternity, and psychiatric. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	MedBio World
"...the largest medical and bioscience information resource and reference site on the Internet, which provides access to medical and bioscience journals, associations, databases and other medical resources, with more than 35,000 active links." Read the full annotation

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MEDLINE (FirstSearch)

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MEDLINE (Integrated with Web of Science)

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MedlinePlus

(More Info)	Merck Index : an Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals
An encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs, and biologicals including monographs, reactions, tables, and various indexes. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
Searchable, online version of the 17th (1999) edition of this general medical text. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Mosby’s Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health Dictionary
Over 1,500 pages of specific medical information in a full-color nursing dictionary. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Mosby’s Nursing Drug Reference
This book contains current, complete drug information, with a focus on safe medication administration. This resource features the latest drug information organized alphabetically. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	National Association of School Nurses
NASN's aims to advance the delivery of professional school health services to promote optimal health and learning in students. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	National Institutes of Health
General information about health, and news about current developments in medicine. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	National League for Nursing
To advance quality nursing education that prepares the nursing workforce to meet the needs of diverse populations in an ever-changing health care environment. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	National Library of Medicine Gateway
An entry point for searching the many valuable resources at the NLM. Read the full annotation

Nursing

(More Info)	Nursing Center
Provides many full text articles in its Continuing Education section. Journals include American Journal in Nursing, Nursing Management, and The Nurse Practitioner. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Nursing Diagnosis Handbook : A Guide to Planning Care
A reference that helps nurses and students correlate diagnoses with information about clients based on assessment findings, medical and psychiatric diagnoses, and treatment plans. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Nursing Outlook
Nursing Outlook provides innovative ideas for leaders in the nursing profession through peer-reviewed articles and timely reports. Each issue examines current issues and trends in nursing practice, education, and research, offering progressive solutions to the problems facing the profession. Read the full annotation

Nursing Philosophy

Nursing Research

(More Info)	Nursing World
The site of the American Nurses Association. It provides links to the free Online Journal of Issues in Nursing (a peer-reviewed electronic journal), state nursing associations, and American Nurses Foundation. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Physicians' Desk Reference
Annual reference provides Food and Drug Administration approved labeling for drugs as well as prescription information provided by manufacturers for grandfathered drugs and other drugs marketed without FDA approval. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	PTSDpubs (ProQuest)
PTSDpubs (formerly called PILOTS) is produced by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD. This open-access database provides citations and abstracts to the worldwide literature on PTSD and other psychological effects of trauma, with coverage from 1871 to present. Read the full annotation

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PubMed

(More Info)	PubMed Central (PMC)
PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). It contains more than 5 million full-text records, spanning several centuries of biomedical and life science research, from the late 1700s to present. Read the full annotation

RN

(More Info)	RN Central
Created by nurses for nurses and students, this site offers good resource links, but the highlight is its "Careplan Corner," with predefined nursing care plans. Users can copy, save, or print and modify any of the plans. Read the full annotation

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Science Direct

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Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest)

(More Info)	Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
56,000 easy-to-understand definitions, including 700 illustrations; more than 500 in full-color. Includes the pronunciation of unusual terms and etymologies. Read the full annotation

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Web of Science

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