Research Guides: Canvas_Nursing: Getting Started

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This guide will get you started on your Nursing research. Contact a Librarian if you have questions or issues!

EBSCO Health Databases This link opens in a new window This searches all of the EBSCO Health databses that Grafton Subscribes to, including CINAHL, MEDLine, Health Source, the Cochrane Library, and more.
DynaMed Plus This link opens in a new window DynaMed Plus is a clinical reference tool, designed to provide caregivers with evidence-based, point-of-care information, including overviews and recommendations, drug information, graphics, and images.
AccessAnesthesiology This link opens in a new window This comprehensive online anesthesiology resource covers the entire spectrum of anesthesiology from the basics to specialty-specific content
AccessMedicine This link opens in a new window AccessMedicine is continually updated resource that gives you access to leading medical books.

PubMed Central A free archive of biomedical and life sciences journals.

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Population Reference Bureau PRB analyzes and disseminates information about populations and their health and well-being
World Food Situation Contains information on the world food situation including commodities, food situation indicators and reports on short and long term market issues.
History of Vaccines Multimedia site documenting the istory, and controversies, of vaccinations, includes articles, timelines, and primary documents.
Medical Heritage Library
TED Talks: Health
Talks and performances from TED conferences.
Center for the Study of the History of Nursing The Barbara Bates Center is the preeminent history of nursing research center and archive.

Article Databases

CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 750 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index – with no embargo. CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.
MEDLINE Complete This link opens in a new window Combines the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database with links to the complete text of articles from leading medical journals. The database offers information related to the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences.

PubMed Central A free archive of biomedical and life sciences journals.
PubMed PubMed® comprises more than 33 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
PubMed PICO Search Search MEDLINE/PubMed via PICO with Spelling Checker - Patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window This database provides nearly 575 full-text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles and covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
PsycNET This link opens in a new window APA PsycNET offers the combined resources of the PsycArticles, PsycINFO, and PsycBooks. Covers psychology and related fields such as psychiatry, sociology, education, and communication.
ScienceDirect Health and Life Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window Full text articles in health, medicine, and life sciences.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window A comprehensive sociology research database, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. Access to 2.1 million records, including journal articles, books/monographs, conference papers and other non-periodical content.

Government websites

NCBI MeSH MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) is the NLM controlled vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing articles for PubMed.
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and health education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.
History of Medicine The NLM History of Medicine Division (HMD) collects, preserves, makes available, and interprets for diverse audiences one of the world’s richest collections of historical material related to health and disease.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) A part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, NIH is the largest biomedical research agency in the world.
MyHealthfinder From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; links to health news and information.
PSNet: Patient Safety Network AHRQ Patient Safety Network (PSNet) is a national web-based resource featuring the latest news and essential resources on patient safety.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
The State Snapshots provide State-specific health care quality information, including strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement. The goal is to help State officials and their public- and private-sector partners better understand health care quality and disparities in their State.
WomensHealth.gov A project of the US Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health. The goal of the office is to improve the health of American women. This website provides health information regarding women's issues.

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