Nursing: Database Recommendations

CINAHL, The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, is cross-searching approximately 3000 journals, including: American Journal of Nursing; MEDSURG Nursing; Journal of Nursing Administration; Nursing Research; Journal of Nursing Education; and many, many, more. Dissertations can also be found in CINAHL.

This is the largest biomedical database, made freely available by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), that is cross-searching approximately 5000 journals, and specifically contains a Journal Category of Nursing Journals so you can focus your search if you are specifically wanting to find articles written by nurses (nurses are most likely to publish in nursing journals).

STAT!Ref = Immediately (STAT) available Reference Books (Ref). This collection of medical e-books includes a significant amount of nursing-specific information, and is a great place to get overviews of conditions and procedures.

This is the ebook database with your Scope & Standards books, and also contains other nursing-relevant books.

Prepare for your national licensure exam by using this high-quality exam review tool that lets you take practice tests, track your performance, and review selected subject areas that are mapped to the blueprint of your national exam.

Contains different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making and provides information about Cochrane groups.

This HUGE database is actually cross-searching the very large databases Academic Onefile and General Onefile, as well as other Gale databases, so it is a great place to look when you have a challenging topic to research.

3D interactive models of human anatomy as well as media, x-rays, MRIs, animations, and live-action movies. Video clips can be downloaded for use in presentations.

This database is made freely available by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), and provides reliable patient-oriented information from sources selected by the NLM.

This is a collection of e-books, with much content relevant to Nursing.

Full text articles from over 3,800 journals on scientific and technical subjects from 1995 to present.