Nursing & Allied Health Resources
Databases
CINAHL Plus with Full-Text: Scholarly nursing and allied health database in a new interface.
- Search using keyword smart searching, by publication, or with improved guided subject searching using standardized medical terminology.
- Combine terms using AND, OR and NOT EX: "diabetes and children" will return results with both terms, "diabetes or blood sugar" will return results with either term, and "diabetes not children" will get rid of anything about children.
- New "Narrow Results By" tabs to improve searching capabilities and provided targeted results.
Consumer Health Complete : a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content.
- Designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics.
- Provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to complementary, holistic and integrated medicine.
Credo Reference: A full-text electronic reference database. Choose "Find a Book" and then "Subject- Medicine" for full-text reference works including hundreds of illustrations and images. A great place to start!
PubMed: Accessible on the web. An extremely comprehensive citation database; no full-text.
UpToDate : a comprehensive collection of clinical reference material. Material includes updates to medical literature, drug interactions, calculators for various metrics, and references for updating clinical practice.
Books
Use the AVALON and Mobius catalogs
Avalon catalog includ[ing] CMU, Mo Valley, UCM, and State Fair, among others. Items from AVALON usually arrive in 2-3 days and check out for 1 month.
MOBIUS catalog is state wide; items requested arrive in 5-7 days and check out for 3 weeks. Request items from off-campus using your name and student ID number.
Specific medical terms will not return many results, so try to use broader terms.
