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Locating Nursing Articles

The best indexes for articles about Nursing are:

CINAHL via Ebsco

Provides access to virtually all English Language nursing journals, publications from the American Nurses' Association and the National League of Nursing and primary journals from allied health disciplines. In addition to journal articles, CINAHL indexes a variety of document formats including book chapters, tests, and dissertations. CINAHL provides more than 2000 terms oriented specifically to nursing and allied health. Abstracts with selected full-text access to journals.
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Proquest Nursing

This database offers complete information from leading nursing and related publications and provides complete text and images from over 300 journals, including the following titles: Nursing, Nursing Management, Nursing Economics, Nursing Forum, RN, Journal of Nursing Education, Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Researcher, and Nursing Diagnosis.
Proquest Nursing Tutorial Video

Journals@Ovid Full Text

Provides full text access to the following journal titles: AACN Clincial Issues, Critical Care, American Journal of Nursing, Cancer Nursing, CNS: The Journal for Advanced Nursing Practice, Computers in Nursing, Journal for Nurses in Staff Development, JONA, Journal of Intravenous Nursing, MCN: The Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing, Nurse Educator, Nursing Case Management, Nursing Research, Outcomes Management for Nursing Practice.

Primal Pictures

Primal Pictures provides an interactive multimedia overview of human anatomy. It features three-dimensional animations that illustrate function, biomechanics, and surgical procedures. Clinical videos and textual descriptions by leading specialists supplement the animations and models. Interactive learning modules covering basic human anatomy focus on one or more areas of the body.

EBM Reviews (which includes Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews)

Provides full text topic reviews of the evidence-based medical literature. Provides authoritative "bottom line" evidence-based information on numerous clinical treatments and therapies, drug, non-drug and alternative therapies.

Medline (via Ovid)

The premier source for bibliographic coverage of biomedical literature. The Medline database contains bibliographic citations and abstracts for articles from over 4,300 current medical journals.

Scholarsportal.info

The most comprehensive database of scientific, technical and medical information on the internet today. Useful for biomedical information. Complete full-text access to journal articles.

Health and Psychosocial Instruments

Health and Psychosocial Instruments provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.

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