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ACADEMIC UNIVERSE
(Available through Lexis Nexis)
Multidisciplinary database with full text articles. Sources in LEXIS‑
Nexis Academic include newspapers, general magazines and journals, medical
information, news transcripts, federal and state legal codes and
information, business information, corporate profiles, SEC documents, and
country profiles. Medical information includes full text articles from
journals, and abstracts from MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine
database. Dates of coverage vary according to title.
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Online Journals
There are many
e-journals available through the databases above and from other sources.
Use the
Full-Text Journal search tool to search for an individual
e-journal title or see a list of
nursing electronic journals.
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Internet Resources
General Resources |
Nursing Study Aids
General Resources
American Heart
Association
- information on cardiovascular diseases and stroke
American Nurses
Association
-
professional association for nurses and students
CancerNet and the
Physicians
Data Query (PDQ)
-
information provided by the National Cancer Institute, including
CancerLit and Cancer Trials
Center for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) -
offers access to the Morbidity and Mortality
Weekly Report and Emerging Infectious Diseases and provides
access to information regarding prevention and treatment of infectious
diseases
Food & Nutrition Information Center –
sponsored by the U.S. Department
of Agriculture, the Food & Nutrition Information Center has information on
dietary guidelines, supplements and vitamins, educational materials,
government reports, research papers, and more. It is targeted toward
consumers, nutrition and health professionals, educators and government
personnel.
Hardin Meta Directory
of Internet Health Sources -
provides pointers to the most complete and most
often cited resources in different specialties. Also referred to as
Hardin MD
HealthFinder
-
a service of the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services. Healthfinder7
is a gateway to selected consumer health and human services information
resources
provided by U.S. government agencies and other organizations serving the
public interest
HealthWeb
-
provides links to specific, evaluated information resources on the
World‑Wide Web selected by librarians and information professionals at
leading academic medical centers in the Midwest. Selection emphasizes
quality information aimed at assisting health care professionals as well
as consumers in meeting their health information needs
Medline Plus
-
a service of the National Institute of Health. Medline Plus has
extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other
trusted sources on diseases and conditions. There are also lists of
hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary,
health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and
nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to
thousands of clinical trials
Medscape -
a leading
interactive, multi-specialty, commercial Web service for clinicians and
consumers. Offers free, full-text, peer-reviewed clinical medicine
articles and more. Registration free but required
Merck Manual of
Diagnosis and Therapy
-
a widely used text describing symptoms, disorders, clinical and lab
procedures
National Institutes of
Health -
one of the world's foremost biomedical research centers, and the Federal
focal point for biomedical research in the U.S. Includes health resources
such as consumer health publications, clinical trials, health hotlines,
MEDLINE Plus, and the NIH Information Index (a subject‑word guide to
diseases and conditions under investigation at NIH)
Nursing Associations
(M.C. School of Nursing resources page)
Oncolink
-
provided by the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center. OncoLink
provides comprehensive information about specific types of cancer, updates
on cancer treatments and news about research advances
Virtual Hospital
and
Virtual Childrens
Hospital
-
provided by the University of Iowa. Digital health sciences libraries
for health providers and patients. Includes many medical textbooks
online, patient information leaflets, and teaching and patient education
resources
Nursing Study Aids
Auscultation Assistant –
“provides heart sounds, heart murmurs, and breath sounds in order to help
medical students and others improve their physical diagnosis skills”
Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body
– 1247 engravings and subject index
Human Anatomy Online –
arranged by system, users can view animation
of the systems, tutorials, and descriptions. Must have a java-enabled
browser.
Magill University Virtual Stethoscope
– One of several tutorials created by McGill medical students, this site
offers a virtual stethoscope for auscultating normal and abnormal
cardiac and respiratory sounds, a review of selected cardiac and
pulmonary physiology/pathophysiology topics, and online quizzes. Click
on “MM Student Project Main Page” for additional tutorials.
Medical Images on the Web
– a collection of links from the University of Nebraska
Medical Center organized by General, Anatomy and Histology, Cardiology,
Dermatology, Embriology, Endoscopy, Neurology, Pathology, Pediatrics,
and ENT.
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and
Therapy - a widely
used text describing symptoms, disorders, clinical and lab procedures
Physical Exam Study Guides
– From the University of Florida Medical program, these study exams are
for Vital Signs, Back and Extremity, Chest and Lung, Cardiology, Head
and Neck, Eye, Abdominal, Breast, Pelvic, Neurologic, and Mental Status
RN Central – Various
links, including “Careplan Corner”, with a variety of nursing care plans
available for modification.
The Visible Human
Project -
provided by the National Library of Medicine. The Visible Human Project
consists of complete, anatomically detailed, three‑dimensional
representations of the normal male and female human bodies. Transverse CT, MR and cryosection images of representative male and female cadavers are
included
The Whole Brain
Atlas
-
from Harvard Medical School, "this
is your brain in pictures@.
A visual representation of what=s
inside your head. Displays the visual results of brain
ailments such as stroke
and Alzheimer's
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