Nursing
IMPORTANT
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Journals & Articles
- You can search for journal articles in Primo and library databases
- For General Instructions: Finding Journal Articles
- Find a specific article.
Course Guides
Help for…
- Summaries & Definitions on Medical Topics
- Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Sources in the Health Sciences
- Find Research Studies
- Types of Research Studies (Hierarchy of Evidence) PDF
- NCLEX Exam Prep
Video Tutorials
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- Pico Questions
- Types of Nursing Research
- Evaluating Nursing Research
- Nursing Theory Research
- Peer-reviewed Articles
Scholarly Journals
- American Nurse Today
- Applied Nursing Research
- Journal of Christian Nursing
- Journal of Nursing Scholarship
- Nursing Made Incredibly easy!
- Nurse Practitioner
- 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
General Books
| Merck manual of diagnosis and therapy | REF RC 55 M4 |
| Physicians’ Desk Reference | REF RS 75. P5 |
| Human Anatomy Online | Website |
| MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia | Website |
Nursing Theory
- Nursing Theory : utilization and application
- Pioneering Theories in Nursing
- Analyzing and Conceptualizing the Theoretical Foundations of Nursing
- Middle Range Theory for Nursing
Professional Organizations
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
Health Data & Statistics
- 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
- 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)
- NIH Tutorial: Finding and using health statistics