This guide is a starting point for locating Nursing and Certified Nursing Assistant books, videos, journal articles, and credible websites.
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Subject Searching
| concept mapping | pediatric nursing |
| geriatric nursing | pharmacology |
| nurses' aides | psychiatric nursing |
| nursing | surgical nursing |
| nursing care plans | transcultural nursing |
Call Number Ranges
Use thes
e call number ranges to browse the General Collection and the Reference Collection.
Also look for e-books and streaming videos.
| anatomy & physiology | QM (anatomy) QP (physiology) |
| geriatric nursing | RC954s |
| nurse assistant | RT84 |
| nursing | RTs |
| pediatric nursing | RJ245 |
| pharmacology & nursing drug handbooks/guides | RM100-300s |
| practical nursing | RT 62 |
| psychiatric nursing | RC440s |
| surgical nursing | RT41-51s |
| transcultural nursing | RT86.54 |
Select Print Titles
Ackley and Ladwig's Nursing Diagnosis Handbook
Uses an easy, three-step system to guide you through client assessment, nursing diagnosis, and care planning. Step-by-step instructions show how to implement care and evaluate outcomes, and help you build skills in diagnostic reasoning and critical thinking.
Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice
This comprehensive text guides you through the nursing concepts and skills particularly vital for assessment, care, and treatment.
Davis's Diseases and Disorders: A Nursing Therapeutics Manual
Put information on more than 240 diseases and disorders at your fingertips. Clear, comprehensive discussions of pathophysiology--with rationales in the test and intervention sections--help you deliver effective care with confidence.
Pharmacology and the Nursing Process
Gain the pharmacology knowledge and skills you need to administer medications safely!
Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses
Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses® delivers all of the information you need to administer medications safely across the lifespan--well-organized monographs for hundreds of generic and thousands of trade-name drugs.
Nursing Theories and Nursing Practice
Noted nursing scholars explore the historical and contemporary theories that are the foundation of nursing practice today.
Nursing Care Plans
The all-in-one care planning resource! Here's the step-by-step guidance you need to develop individualized plans of care while also honing your critical-thinking and analytical skills.
Davis's Comprehensive Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications
Written by a laboratory scientist and a nurse educator, this easy-to-read, full-color manual delivers all the information you need to understand how tests work, interpret their results, and provide quality patient care--pre-test, intra-test, and post-test--with a unique focus on clinical judgment.
Reference Sources
Reference materials are well indexed, up-to-date, concise, and highly credible. They provide overviews, definitions, specific information (such as causes & symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, prognosis, etc) or addresses. Types of reference books include: directories, dictionaries and encyclopedias, basic health books (describing diseases and conditions), and drug resources.
Electronic Reference
- Gale eBooks
Gale eBooks is a collection of online reference books on a variety of topics including business, history, literature, health & medicine, social science, technology, and more. The inclusion of key word definitions within its concise encyclopedia entries makes this database the perfect starting point for professional and personal research.
- MedlinePlus Consumer Health
MedlinePlus is the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) consumer health web portal. It contains reputable information on health topics, medical tests, drugs and supplements, genetics, the latest medical news, and more in a variety of reading levels and languages, including Spanish. Its medical encyclopedia contains images and videos. It can be linked to EHRs (Electronic Health Records) and should be the first stop when seeking health information on the internet.
- Medscape ReferenceAn online clinical reference providing in-depth drug & disease information and tools to support clinical decision making. Content is designed for practicing medical professionals and includes diagnostic medical images. Free Registration to MedScape is required. To go straight to an entry in this resource, try Googling the word emedicine and your disease/condition (i.e. emedicine pneumonia)
- Merriam-Webster Online Medical DictionaryA medical dictionary that includes audio pronunciations
- Micromedex
Micromedex is an evidence-based, multi-database drug search engine that provides summary and in-depth information for drugs (both prescription and over-the-counter products), diseases, toxicology, and alternative medicine. Its clinical tools include IV compatibility, drug identification, drug interactions, drug comparisons, and clinical calculators.
If you are looking for information on the MobileMicromedex app, please click here.
Physical Reference
Conn's Current Therapy REF RM101 .C87
Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment REF RC71 .A14
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary REF R 121.D73 (Ready Reference--located at our reference desks)
Goldman's Cecil Medicine REF RC46 .C423
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine REF RC46 .H333
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