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Nursing
Designed for Nursing students, this guide takes you through the Library’s resources to improve your research.
Best Biology Resources
Best Databases
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CINAHL Ultimate This link opens in a new window
(Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) is a comprehensive database that provides access to scholarly articles, journals, and evidence-based resources in nursing, allied health, and related healthcare fields—including physician assistant studies.
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Medline Ultimate This link opens in a new window
MEDLINE Ultimate is a premier biomedical database offering extensive full-text access to peer-reviewed journals covering medicine, nursing, allied health, and clinical research—ideal for advanced healthcare study and evidence-based practice.
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Case Files Collection This link opens in a new window
"Updated regularly, this comprehensive and interactive case collection helps students learn and apply basic science and clinical medicine concepts in the context of realistic patient cases."
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AccessMedicine This link opens in a new window
"AccessMedicine from McGraw Hill Medical is a comprehensive online medical resource that provides a complete spectrum of knowledge from the best minds in medicine, with essential information accessible anywhere."
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Health Source This link opens in a new windowFull text consumer health magazines and patient education reports. Great for finding quick and easy to read medical information.
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PubMed This link opens in a new windowExtensive listing of medical journals articles compiled by the U.S. government.
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Entrez, the Life Sciences Search Engine"Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease" (publisher description). Government resources in biology and the life sciences. Includes PubMed, ebooks, plus specialized databases on biological classification (taxonomy), genes, genomes, proteins, and more.
Best Pre-Med Resources
Other Useful Databases
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Annual Review of Nutrition This link opens in a new window
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Annual Review of Physiology This link opens in a new window
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Annual Review of Public Health This link opens in a new window
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Consumer Health Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Nursing Books
Browse books related to nursing or use the provided resources and tools to discover more books. These resources can be found in the 174s, 340-360s and 610-619s sections of the library collection. Use this link to see a breakdown of Dewey Decimal Classification. The table below shows a breakdown of the Dewey Call Numbers related to nursing topics.
| Dewey Decimal # | Topic |
| 174.2 – 174.28 | Medical ethics |
| 344.730 – 344.73049 | Legal aspects |
| 346.7303 – 346.730332 | Malpractice |
| 362.1 - 362.173068 | Sociology and healthcare; incl. long term care |
| 362.175 | Death and dying |
| 362.19-362.199 | Issues, trends, leadership, management |
| 610.3 – 610.399 | Dictionaries |
| 610.696 - 610.73699 | General Nursing |
| 611.347 – 611.82 | Anatomy |
| 612 | Physiology |
| 612.015 – 612.75 | Psychology and nutrition |
| 613.2 | Nutrition |
| 615.0 - 615.14 | Pharmacology |
| 615.329 – 615.5071 | Antibiotics, alternative medicine, patient teaching |
| 615.58 - 615.788 | Pharmacology |
| 616.028 | Illness |
| 616.029 | Care of the dying |
| 616.047 – 616.8589 | Diseases |
| 616.12-616.15 | Cardiovascular system; hematology |
| 616.3-616.49 | Gastrointestinal and endocrine systems |
| 616.5-616.75 | Dermatology; Genitourinary tract; autoimmune disorders |
| 616.8-616.854 | Neurology and psychiatric conditions |
| 616.856 – 616.89075 | Psychiatric disorders, continued |
| 616.8918 – 616.9792071 | Psychiatric pharmacology, infectious diseases, immunology |
| 616.992 – 616.99495 | Oncology |
| 617.1 – 617.1027 | Orthopedics |
| 617.4 – 617.51 | Surgery |
| 617-54-617.59 | Pain |
| 617.9 – 617.96 | Surgery |
| 618 – 618.99 | Obstetrics, pediatrics, geriatrics |
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