Check out the CSULB Library Health Weblog/RSS Feed& Class PowerPoints -- Nursing 2007
California HealthCare Foundation's issue brief (January 2008) "Scope of Practice Laws in Health Care: Rethinking the Role of Nurse Practitioners" is available at http://www.chcf.org/topics/view.cfm?itemid=133568 A report by the Center for the Health Professions at the University of California, San Francisco, which contains the full survey results, is also available.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released (March 2007):
Evidence Report/Technology Assessment, Number 151, Nurse Staffing and Quality of Patient Care
http://www.ahrq.gov/downloads/pub/evidence/pdf/nursestaff/nursestaff.pdf
Coast is used for finding books and other materials available in the CSULB Library. This is only a sampling of subject headings which may be used. Keywords may also be searched.
Some of these books are found in the University LIbrary Reference area, 1st floor (turn to the right when you walk in the front door), and in the stacks on the 4th floor.
Encyclopedia of Nursing Research RT81.5.E53 1998
An important introduction to key terms and topics of nursing research written for both professionals and students. Compiled from 200 expert contributers contains 320 articles including nursing services and philosophy of nursing. Also includes a list of nursing journals.
The Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health Ref RT21.G353 2002
5 volumes, 850 entries. In-depth coverage of specific diseases and disorders, tests and proceedures, equipment and tools, body systems, nursing and allied health professions, and current health issues. Written at a level more advances than for a lay person, but not too difficult for the nursing student.
Nursing diagnoses, outcomes, and interventions : NANDA, NOC, and NIC linkages RT48.6.N877 2001
Extends the use of the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) and Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) by linking them with nursing diagnoses, using the NANDA taxonomy. This book is the first and only to provide linkages between all three recognized taxonomies based on research by the investigative teams at the University of Iowa. For students and practitioners, to aid in the development of care plans. Three sections present terminology and application, including case studies; NANDA/NOC/NIC linkages alphabetically, featuring all 1999-2000 NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses; and definitions for NOC outcome and NIC intervention labels.
Professional Guide to Diseases 7th ed. Ref RT65.P59 2001
A one volume encyclopedia of more than 600 diseases and disorders including definitions and treatments.
Step One
The first step in finding scholarly/ peer reviewed articles for research is to use a database or index to find citations (including titles) of articles that are on your topic. Online databases are listings of articles published in a particular set of journals. Paper indexes also list articles by subject and title and are updated with new printings periodically.
Keep in mind that for academic research you want to stick with scholarly articles published in journals like Advances in Nursing Science as opposed to news type articles in magazines like Newsweek. Some databases will even allow you to limit your search to scholarly articles, also called peer-reviewed, juried, or refereed articles, by checking a box.
Visit the Finding Articles by Topic Health/Medical/Nursing webpage for quick access to the following databases as well as others usefull for nursing research.
Online databases
Print Indexes
(Use for finding older articles not covered in the online databases. These items will soon be available again in Room 407.)
Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (1977-1987) RT1.C85
Cumulative Index to Nursing Literature (1956-1976) RT1. C85
Index Medicus R129 .I46
Step Two
After you have found citations for articles that seem relevant to your topic, you need to access the articles themselves. You can decide if they are relevant (articles you want) by looking at titles and abstracts (short summarys of the articles) in the database citation.
Getting the article (Follow these steps until you have the article in hand):
To get the article electronically:
Some articles will be available in full-text or PDF format by simply clicking a link right in the database.
If there is no direct link, look for an 
link which searches for the article in any database subscribed to by CSULB and sometimes the COAST library catalog as well to let you know if CSULB has access to the article anywhere.
If SFX doesn't find the article, you should still try to find the journal in COAST on your own. Search using the Journal Title, not the article title. Make sure you know which year, volume, and number journal you need.
If it is available electonically online, you should be able to click a link and then either print the article or e-mail it to yourself.
If the journal is not available electronically, get the article in paper:
Try a COAST Title of journal, magazine, newspaper search using the journal title, not the article title, to see if CSULB has the journal in paper copy.
If it is available in paper form at CSULB you will have to come to the library to photocopy it. Make sure you write down the ENTIRE citation (author, title, journal title, volume, number, year, pages) from the database and the call number from COAST.
If it is not available electronically or at CSULB you can still request the article through Interlibrary Loan. This gets the article from another library either in paper or electronically and usually takes 7-10 days. So be sure to start your research early! If you are in a hurry, you can check other library's catalogs and possibly go to that library to get the article.
Autism Data, the National Autistic Society's database of 17,000+ journal articles, papers, books and multimedia on autism, is open for all to access on the web. The contents include bibliographic records of all the items in The National Autistic Society Information Centre Library, together with the details of research articles on autism published in journals which are not part of their holdings. Every entry has an abstract and has been assigned keywords to help with searching.http://www.autism.org.uk/autismdata
Canary Database,developed by Yale School of Medicine, contains scientific evidence about how animal disease events can be an early warning system for emerging human diseases. http://canarydatabase.org
Evidence Database, Center for Aging Policy's "Evidence Database is regularly updated by an advisory panel that filters, reviews, and catalogues articles published in professional journals both in the U.S. and abroad. The database allows you to refine your search through multiple keywords and categories."
http://socialworkleadership.org/nsw/cap/ebp.php
KIDS COUNT State Level Online Data, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, was launched in Spring 2005 and includes around 75 measures of child well-being. Included in these 75 measures are the 10 key measures of well-being from their KIDS COUNT Data Book. The online database allows you to generate custom reports for a geographic area (Profiles) or to compare geographic areas on a topic (Ranking, Maps, and Line Graphs). http://www.aecf.org/kidscount/sld/index.jsp
HSRR (Health Services and Sciences Research Resources) database offers searching and browsing of datasets and questionnaires that are useful for public health systems research (PHSR). This would include research involving the organization, financing, and delivery of public health services and the impact of these activities on the population's health. The database includes brief descriptions of research resources and links to PubMed. It also includes URLs of providers for additional information or access to the resources. HSRR is not a repository of the actual resources. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/hsrr_search/
PeriStats, developed by the March of Dimes Perinatal Data Center, provides free access to US, state, city, and county maternal & infant health data. http://www.marchofdimes.com/peristats/
ProQolid (Patient-Reported Outcome and Quality of Life Instruments Database) provides information about health and psychology assessment tools. Full access is limited to subscribers. http://www.proqolid.org/
There is much information available on the web. However, because anyone can publish on the web, it is important to use critical thinking skills in evaluating whether the information you find is valid. Think about who put the information there and what their authority is to do so. (i.e. are they a professor at a University or just Bob in his basement?) It may be usefull to click on the "About" link or other authoring information or try this website for diagnostic tipshttp://www.mlanet.org/resources/medspeak/meddiag.html. Below are a few useful websites in the field of nursing.
General Nursing Sites
American Association of Colleges of Nursing http://www.aacn.nche.edu/
"The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is the national voice for America's baccalaureate- and higher-degree nursing education programs."
American Nursing Association http://nursingworld.org/index.htm
"The American Nurses Association is a full-service professional organization representing the nation's 2.6 million Registered Nurses through its 54 constituent state associations and 13 organizational affiliate members. 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 public."
Board of Registered Nursing http://www.rn.ca.gov
Includes information on how to become a nurse, license information, continuing education instructions, legislative updates/proposed regulations, etc. for the State of California.
Directory of Accredited Nursing Programs http://www.nlnac.org/forms/directory_search.htm
National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission, Inc./NLNAC
Health Web: Nursing http://healthweb.org/browse.cfm?subjectid=60
A directory of web resources for nursing in many topics including AIDS, critical care nursing and death and dying.
Lippincott's Nursing Center http://www.nursingcenter.com/
Includes links to current journal articles of interest to the nursing profession. Also includes career information, clinical updates, and continuing education information.
National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. http://www.ncsbn.org/
"The purpose of the National Council is to provide an organization through which boards of nursing act and counsel together on matters of common interest and concern affecting the public health, safety and welfare, including the development of licensing examinations in nursing."
Nursing 2007 http://www.nursing2004.com/pt/re/nursing/resources.htm
Guide to nursing organizations a long list, with contact information (including URLs), of nurses associations in the United States and Canada
Specialty certification organizations a list of contact information of nurse certification organizations
State Nursing publications/newsletters http://nursingald.com/newsletter_thumbs.php
History of Nursing
Historical Nursing Journals http://www.rcn.org.uk/historicalnursingjournals
The Royal College of Nursing has launched a website displaying images of and indexing one of the first nursing journals, Nursing Record / British Journal of Nursing, from 1888 to 1956. The websites aim is to promote research into the history of the nursing profession by providing access to this rare historic primary source. The site includes images of the original pages of the journal including articles, photos, illustrations and advertisements.The online journal is freely available on the Internet at the address above.
International History Links http://www.hud.ac.uk/hhs/departments/nursing/wyhon/international_history.htm
Part of the West Yorkshire History of Nursing website which is a research project of Graham Thurgood (Senior Lecturer, Dept of Adult & Child Nursing, School of Human and Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield).
Nursing Research
National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs
The Center for Disease Controls website listing many different health statistics, such as marriage, birth, death and divorce rates.
National Intitute of Nursing Research http://www.nih.gov/ninr/
"The National Institute of Nursing Research supports clinical and basic research to establish a scientific basis for the care of individuals across the life span-from management of patients during illness and recovery to the reduction of risks for disease and disability, the promotion of healthy lifestyles, promoting quality of life in those with chronic illness, and care for individuals at the end of life."
The Nursing Theory Page http://www.sandiego.edu/academics/nursing/theory/
An index of pages maintained at the University of San Diego each outlining a theory or method of nursing.
More tips: http://www.sandiego.edu/academics/nursing/theory/student.htm
University of Buffalo Nursing Research Site http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/hsl/internet/nsgsites.html
A thorough list of sites on the web related to nursing research maintained by the health sciences librarians at University of Buffalo.
Patient Education
American College of Physicians (ACP) Foundation http://foundation.acponline.org/hl/htips.htm
HEALTH TiPS is a program offered to ACP physicians from the ACP Foundation. HEALTH TiPS are two sided 4"x 6" cards that contain important information that patients need to know to manage their chronic conditions. The HEALTH TiPS can be viewed online.
ADOL: Adolescent Directory On-line http://education.indiana.edu/cas/adol/adol.html
This is a handy guide to teen health links compiled by the Center for Adolescent Studies at Indiana University.
Child and Family Web Guide http://www.cfw.tufts.edu/
"for parents, students and professionals: a directory of sites rated by experts from Tufts University" on family/parenting, education/training,
typical child development, health/mental health, resources/recreation. You can browse the annotated, rated links by the complete alphabetical index,
age level, and special topics (ADD/ADHD, healthy eating, behavior problems, etc.), and find research news sites and ask an expert sites.
DIRLINE
National Library of Medicine's DIRLINE (Directory of Health Organizations) offers an A to Z list of 8,500+ organizations concerned with health and biomedicine:http://dirline.nlm.nih.gov/help/dirline/a2z_A.html DIRLINE can also be searched for specific topics:
http://dirline.nlm.nih.gov/
familydoctor.org http://familydoctor.org/
"Health information for the whole family" from the American Academy of Family Physicians and one of the Medical Library Association's (MLA) top ten most useful websites.
FDA Patient Safety News http://www.fda.gov/psn
PSN is a monthly video/web news show produced by the FDA and aimed at giving healthcare professionals up-to-date advice on safeguarding patients and preventing medical errors. Each month's 15-minute show contains 6-8 separate stories featuring safety information about drugs, biologics and medical devices. The original documents and articles from which the stories are adapted are available on the FDA Patient Safety News Website.
healthfinder ® http://www.healthfinder.gov/
A service of the National Health Information Center, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and one of the Medical Library Association's (MLA) top ten most useful websites.
MayoClinic http://www.mayoclinic.com
A reliable commercial site and one of the Medical Library Association's (MLA) top ten most useful websites.
MEDEM: an information partnership of medical societies http://medem.com/MedLB/medlib_entry.cfm
Selected one of the top ten most useful websites by the Medical Library Association, their Medical Library provides patients with reliable health care information from introductory to advanced texts.
Medical Information on the Internet: Guide for Health Reporters and Consumers http://www.mlanet.org/resources/hlth_tutorial/index.html
Free web-based tutorial designed by Medical Library Association (MLA) members to lead health reporters and consumers to quality health care information on the Internet
MEDLINEplus http://www.medlineplus.gov
Medline's consumer health guide developed by the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Contains easy to read explanations of many diseases and disorders, procedures and treatments, symptoms, drugs, hopital and doctor guides and much more. Available in English and Spanish.
Merck http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_home.jsp
Merck has created a Web site that allows users to download and print 26 different medical forms at no cost, including childhood and adult vaccination forms and a sample letter to request records.
National Institutes of Health http://www.health.nih.gov/
NIH's consumer health information site offers information on diseases, proper diet and current health topics, as well as links to clinical trials and popular health databases.
NOAH: New York Online Access to Health http://www.noah-health.org/
A gateway to quality filtered consumer health information in English and Spanish and selected one of the top ten most useful websites by the Medical Library Association.
Quick Guide to Health Literacy http://www.health.gov/communication/literacy/quickguide/
The US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion's Health Communication Activities Website includes a new Quick Guide to Health Literacy page.
24 Languages - health information in multiple languages http://library.med.utah.edu/24languages/
Electronic access to over 200 health education brochures in 24 different languages. The brochures are also available in multiple formats, including audio. Links to related resources are available as well.
Public Health
American Public Health Association
http://www.apha.org
California Department of Health Services
http://www.dhs.ca.gov/
Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/
Created by Harvard University Library's Open Collections Program, Contagion offers insights into the history of medicine and historical context for current epidemiology. Materials in the collection include digitized copies of books, serials, pamphlets, incunabula, manuscripts, and materials from the Center for the History of Medicine.
Factline: Tracking Health in Underserved Communities
http://www.factline.org
Factline, a project of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, sponsored by the National Library of Medicine and Meharry Medical College, takes its structure from the federal government's Healthy People 2010. Factline is designed for journalists, students, community workers, and policy makers to present solid facts from scholarly research on health disparities in a brief and understandable format. Each fact presented comes supplied with the reference from the literature where it is established; each page on the site is enhanced with Google and PubMed search mechanisms to allow the interested reader to go further on the subject in either the popular or the scholarly literature.
Healthy People
http://www.healthypeople.gov/
Healthy People is a set of health objectives for the Nation to achieve by decades. "It can be used by many different people, States, communities, professional organizations, and others to help them develop programs to improve health."
Long Beach Department of Health & Human Services
http://www.ci.long-beach.ca.us/health/
Los Angeles County Health Department
http://www.ladhs.org/
Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce
http://phpartners.org
Public Health Resources on the Internet
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/PUBL/internet.html
Resource Guide for Public Health Preparedness
http://www.phpreparedness.info/index.php
Web-based Resource Guide for Public Health Preparedness provides a single point of access to essential information resources in public health and disaster preparedness, selected and cataloged by information specialists.
TOXMAP
http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov
TOXMAP is an interactive web site that shows the amount and location of reported toxic chemicals released into the environment on maps of the United States. It allows users to visually explore information about releases of toxic chemicals by industrial facilities around the United States as reported annually to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA, http://www.epa.gov/tri/). It also integrates the map display with access to relevant bibliographic references and other data on these chemicals, providing a map-based portal to these resources. More information about TOXMAP can be found at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/toxmap.html The FAQ http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov/toxmap/help/faq.jsp provides questions/answers to supplement the user's ability to understand the map displays and the data.
Academic Journal Directory of the University of Texas Medical Branch School of Nursing http://www.son.utmb.edu/catalog/catalog.htm
This Directory contains listings for over 400 journals concerning clinical nursing, nursing education and research, and related health care fields. A typical entry contains the full name of the journal, its publisher, its frequency of publication, its intended readership, the types of manuscripts reviewed, and a statement of purpose for prospective authors. Each journal entry includes a contact address and many provide links to the official websites of the journals and publishers.
Free Medical Journalshttp://www.freemedicaljournals.com/htm/spec9.htm#nurse
Links to over 1300 free medical journals, by discipline, title, language, and the period of time after which the material becomes free, with information on each journal's impact factor as measured by citations. The above link sends you directly to those journals listed under Nursing. List also includes journals in spanish.
Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences http://mulford.meduohio.edu/instr/
Mulford Health Science Library (University of Toledo) provides links to Web sites which provide instructions to authors for over 3,500 journals in the health and life sciences.
Nurse Author & Editor Journals Directory http://www.nurseauthor.com/library.asp
Nurse Author & Editor was transferred to Blackwell Publishing in 2006 and is now published quarterly as a free online publication at www.NurseAuthorEditor.com. Nurse Author & Editor will no longer be available as a print version but the publication will be available online from Volume 16. The publication will continue to reflect the needs of nurse authors, editors and reviewers. Each issue will consist of 2-3 articles offering advice on writing quality manuscripts, avoiding rejection, reviewing, editing and finding publishing opportunities in many different nursing journals. There will also be a section containing short articles to update readers on new developments in journal publishing. In addition, www.NurseAuthorEditor.com will continue to host the directory of nursing journals.
"The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing (OJIN) is a peer-reviewed, online publication addressing pertinent issues in nursing. The intent of this journal is to present different perspectives on topics that affect nursing practice, research, and education, thus enabling readers to understand the full complexity of a particular topic. The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing is available free of charge and published jointly by The American Nurses Association and the Kent State University College of Nursing."
State Nursing Association newsletters resource http://www.nursingald.com/newsletter_thumbs.php
The web site contains 35 of the 50+ state nursing association publications, PDF full text with some archives.
The "Virtual" Nursing Center http://www.martindalecenter.com/Nursing.html
Jim Martindale's list of links to various nursing journals online.
National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/healthworkforce/reports/rnpopulation/preliminaryfindings.htm
Most extensive and comprehensive source of statistics on registered nurses (RNs) with current licenses to practice in the United States whether or not they are employed in nursing.
ALA's GODORT http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/romans/fdtf/statistics.html
American Library Association Government Documents Round Table list of frequently used sites related to federal government information provides links to government statistics including health.
University of Michigan's Documents Center Statistical Sources on the Web http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html
24 broad subject categories (health, etc.) to choose from and then an alphabetical list of links within each subject. Most links allow access to anyone looking for statistics (a few of the resources restricted to UM students).
Nursing Department /colleges/chhs/departments/nursing/
Related Research Guides:
Gerontology /library/subj/gerontology.html
Government Information /library/eref/vref/govtdocs.html
Health Care Administration /library/subj/health_care/
Health Science /library/subj/health_science/
Minority Health /library/subj/minorityhealth/
Psychology /library/subj/psychology.html
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