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Nursing Resources

"After two days in the hospital, I took a turn for the nurse." W.C. Fields

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On Campus Access Go to your library web page at http://www.iecc.edu/wvc/lrc Click on "Magazines, Journals & Reference Tools" Click on the database you want to search	Off Campus Access Login to Entrata Click on Library in the menu on the left side of the screen Click on "Magazines, Journals & Reference Tools -- Off Campus Access " Select the database you want to search and follow instructions
CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 620 journals indexed in CINAHL. CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.	Scientific Medical Art Imagebase is a collection of 13,000+ high quality illustrations and animations depicting anatomy, physiology, surgery, diseases, conditions, trauma, embryology, histology, and other health science topics.
ProQuest Nursing Journals Online http://proquest.umi.com/login Access over 250 nursing journals online relevant to nursing and allied health
EbscoHost http://www.search.ebscohost.com Use these databases inside EbscoHost for nursing information: Academic Search Premiere CINAHL Health Sources Nursing Academic Edition Health Sources Consumer Edition SMART Imagebase	Facts.com http://www.2facts.com Type your topic into the search bar on the left to receive current worldwide news about diseases. Current news is available using Reuter’s News Agency and World Digest News. Click on Issues & Controversies or Today’s Science (tabs at the top right side of the page) Type your topics in the search bar on the left. Use the word nursing to see the kind of information you can find in this database.
FirstSearch http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org Use the Medline and WilsonSelectPlus databases in this service. Medline covers all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. WilsonSelectPlus has full text articles in science, humanities, education, and business.	Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe http://www.lexis-nexis.com/universe Select the publications you want information from and type your topic into the search box for current information. Try typing nursing into the box to see the kinds of results you can get.

Internet Resources (If links don't connect, please copy and paste them into the search bar of your Internet browser.)
Accreditation & State License Information	National League for Nursing Accreditation, Inc.: http://www.nlnac.org National Council of State Boards of Nursing: http://www.ncsbn.org Illinois Department of Professional Regulation: http://www.idfpr.com (Click on Professional Regulation. Select a Profession from the drop down menu.) Indiana State Board of Nursing: http://www.in.gov/pla/
Associations	American Nursing Association: http://www.ana.org National League for Nursing: http://www.nln.org National Student Nurses’ Association: http://www.nsna.org Nursing World: http://nursingworld.org (part of the American Nursing Association site)
Clinical Trials	Clinical Trials in progress: http://clinicaltrials.gov/
Drugs/Pharmacology	Drug Information Online: http://www.drugs.com/ Nurse’s PDR Resource Center: http://www.NursesPDR.com RX List: the Internet Drug Index: http://rxlist.com/ US Pharmacopeia: http://www.usp.org
Government Web sites	Centers for Disease control and Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov Medline: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/medline.html MedWatch: http://www.fda.gov/medwatch (FDA Medical Products Reporting Program) National Institutes of Health: http:/a/www.nih.gov Food and drug Administration: http://www.fda.gov World Health Organization: http://www.who.int/en
Health Topics	National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health MedlinePlus: http://www.medlineplus.gov A.D.A.M. Encyclopedia: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html Hardin MD: University of Iowa: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/index.html MedWeb @ Emory University: http://www.medweb.emory.edu/SPT--Home.php Subject categories include links to information about: Biological & Physical Sciences Clinical Practice Consumer Health Diseases & Conditions Drugs Health Care Institutions Mental Health Publications Specialties
Legal/Ethical Issues	Brent’s Law: http://www.nursingspectrum.com (Online question and answer column featuring Nancy Brent, RN, nurse attorney) Center for Disease Control: http://www.cdc.gov U.S. Dept. of Labor, Occupational Safety & Health Administration: http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/healthprofessional/index.html
Medical Pictures	Hardin MD, University of Iowa: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/index.html
Nursing Calculator	http://www.manuelsweb.com/nrs_calculators.htm
Nursing Research	Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: http://www.ahrq.gov National Institute of Nursing Research: http://www.ninr.nih.gov/
Patient Safety	National Patient Safety Foundation: http://www.npsf.org
Scholarships	U.S. Dept. of Education federal student aid: http://www.fafsa.ed.gov