Nursing Guide

• You can search for journal articles in Primo and library databases
• For General Instructions: Finding Journal Articles
• Find a specific article.

Scholarly Journal Titles

• American Nurse Today
• Applied Nursing Research
• Journal of Christian Nursing
• Journal of Nursing Scholarship
• Nursing Made Incredibly easy!
• Nurse Practioner
• Nursing Research
• Online Journal of Issues in Nursing
• Nursing, General eJournals
• Nursing Research eJournals

Note: Digital scans of print journal articles can be requested through Primo. 

Books

You can search for books & ebooks in Primo.

For General instructions: Finding Books

Find a specific book or chapter

Definitions & Summaries

Library Research Guides:

• NURS 335/336
• Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Sources in the Health Sciences
• Alverno College Nursing Guide
• Types of Research Studies (Hierarchy of Evidence) PDF

Types of Nursing Research (Video)

Tools for Evaluating Research Articles

Books & Ebooks

• Nursing Theory : utilization and application
• Pioneering Theories in Nursing
• Analyzing and Conceptualizing the Theoretical Foundations of Nursing
• Middle Range Theory for Nursing

Searching for Resources

• Nursing models
• Nursing theory
• Nursing -philosophy
• Theorist’s name (last, first)

Articles

Click a link below to open a search tool

• CINAHL Complete
• MEDLINE Complete
• Academic Search Complete
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
• Nursing & Allied Health Source

Try these for life history information about theorists:

• Gale in Context: Biography

Online Guides

• Cardinal Stritch University’s Nursing Theorists Guide
• Nursing Theories Guide

Many nursing specialties and states have their own professional organizations. 

• American Organization of Critical Care Nurses (AACN)
• American Organization of Nurse Executives
• American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
• American Nurses Association (ANA)
• American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA)
• Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses (AORN)
• Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN)
• National League for Nursing (NLN)
• National Student Nurses’ Association (NSNA)
• Oncology Nursing Society (ONS)
• Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
• Wisconsin Nurses Association (WNA)
• Wisconsin Student Nurses’ Association

• HealthData.gov: US health and medicine data
• UWM’s Milwaukee Data Guide: Find community health data from the city and Milwaukee county. 
• National Center for Health Statistics- Fast Stats   Alphabetical list of stats on public health issues
• National Center for Health Statistics- Health annual report Datafinder tool and free infographics
• The Broad Institute: Cancer-related data sets
• State Health Facts (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)
• World Health Organization Data Repository: Health-related statistics from over 100 countries
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
  List of Data Healthcare sources online
• NIH Tutorial: Finding and using health statistics

Background Information

• Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
• Nursing on the Net
• Lippincott’s Nursing Center