Department of Nursing
Departmental Research Guide

This research guide relays some basic information on library and information resources pertaining to the concerns of this department, as provided by University Libraries and/or sites on the World Wide Web.

1. To Shelf-Browse for Books (using main Library of Congress Subject Divisions)

Books on subjects associated with this field are shelved under the call number ranges listed below. Use TOPCAT to search for specific items in the collection, or more narrowly-defined subjects.

• Health Source: Consumer Edition: This database provides health information for the health care consumer (layman). A full-text database available via EBSCOhost.
• Highwire (includes MEDLINE): Provides indexing and abstracting for 342 journals in a variety of disciplines.
• MEDLINEplus: Consumer health information provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. Also available in Spanish.
• Academic Search Premier and MasterFILE Premier: These two all-subject WWW-based services (they are part of the EBSCOhost system) feature indexing and abstracting of many journals and magazines WKU Libraries receives in hardcopy, plus a large selection of articles in full-text.
• ArticleFirst: This all-subject FirstSearch-based database indexes almost 13,000 journals and magazines from 1990 onward, including some ninety percent of the ones University Libraries carries in hardcopy.

• CINAHL (and pre-CINAHL): These databases are devoted to the fields of nursing and allied health. Available via EBSCOhost.
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition: This database provides health information for the health care professional. A full-text database available via EBSCOhost.
• MEDLINE: This EBSCOhost-based database provides abstracting of the primary research literature.
• AIDSearch: Updated monthly, AIDSearch is a combination of three database files providing information about HIV/AIDS and related topics from 1980 to the present.
• Clinical Pharmacology: Clinical Pharmacology provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products, and new and investigational drugs.
• Combined Health Information Database: A bibliographic database prduced by health-related agencies of the Federal Government. This database provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education resources, many of which are not indexed elsewhere. New records are added quarterly and some older records are retained for archival purposes.
• Hospital & Health Administration Index: Contained in its entirety within MEDLINE, as are International Nursing Index and the Index to Dental Literature.
• MDXHealth: A consumer health database. Available via FirstSearch if you are faculty, staff, or a graduate student at WKU. Call the Reference Center at x6125 for Authorization and Password.
• ArticleFirst: As described above.
• WorldCat: This FirstSearch database lists books, documents and other materials held by libraries worldwide.

Special resource:  TDNet Electronic Journal Finder [use to access Libraries' electronic journals, magazines, and newspapers, as well as some indexes and databases containing full-text articles; includes a comprehensive A-Z listing of titles]

• Handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, directories, etc.: available in Helm Reference, mainly in the R through RZ parts of the collection. Note especially:  Bullough & Sentz, eds. American Nursing: A Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 3 (c2000) RT34 .A44 ------- Fitzpatrick, Encyclopedia of Nursing Research (c1998) RT 81.5 .E53 ------- Kaufman et al., eds. Dictionary of American Nursing Biography (c1988) RT34 .D53 ------- Snodgrass, Historical Encyclopedia of Nursing (c1999) RT31 .S66 ------- Tomey & Alligood, eds. Nursing Theorists and Their Work (2002) RT84.5 .N9.
• Eighteenth - 20th century printed works in the Kentucky Building relating to medicine.

Dept. of Nursing Faculty-Staff: http://www.wku.edu/chhs/nursing/faculty.php

• American Association of Colleges of Nursing http://www.acnpweb.org
• American Association for the History of Nursing, Inc. http://www.aahn.org/
• American College of Nurse-Midwives http://www.midwife.org/
• American College of Nurse Practitioners http://www.acnpweb.org/
• American Nurses Association http://nursingworld.org/
• Kentucky Association of Nursing Students (KANS) http://www.kans.org/
• Kentucky Coalition of Nurse Practitioners & Nurse Midwives http://www.kcnpnm.org/
• Kentucky Nurses Association (KNA) http://www.kentucky-nurses.org
• National League for Nursing http://www.nln.org/
• Nursing Organization Links http://www.nurse.org/orgs.shtml#national
• Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing http://www.nursingsociety.org/

• American Academy of Nursing [mission: "advancing health policy & practice" through nursing] http://www.aannet.org/
• American Association of Colleges of Nursing [advocacy, standards, reports, stats, etc.] http://www.aacn.nche.edu/
• Brownson's Nursing Notes: http://members.tripod.com/~DianneBrownson/history.html/
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) http://www.cdc.gov/
• National Institute of Nursing Research http://ninr.nih.gov/ninr/
• Nurse's PDR Resource Center http://www.nursespdr.com/
• NursingCenter (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins) http://www.nursingcenter.com/home/index.asp
• Nursing Links http://www.nursingworld.org/rnindex/
• The Nursing Theory Page http://www.sandiego.edu/academics/nursing/theory/
• RN Central [news, forums, etc.] http://www.rncentral.com/
• The "Virtual" ~ Nursing Center [gateway] http://www.martindalecenter.com/Nursing.html

Teaching / Jobs

• Glossary of Terms and Symbols Used in Pharmacology http://www.bumc.bu.edu/Dept/Content.aspx?DepartmentID=65&PageID=7797
• Latest Kentucky Nursing Jobs (Jobs.net) http://nursing.jobs.net/Kentucky.htm
• Nursing-Jobs.com http://www.nursing-jobs.com/
• Nursing Jobs Directory http://www.nurse-recruiter.com/
• Nursing Jobs Online http://www.nursingjobs.org/
• Pharmacology Math [tutorial / review] http://www.accd.edu/sac/nursing/math/default.html

• American Association for the History of Nursing http://www.aahn.org/
• ANA Hall of Fame [famous nurse bios] http://www.nursingworld.org/hof/alphalst.htm
• Clara Barton National Historic Site Information http://www.nps.gov/clba/index.htm
• Black Nurses in History: A Bibliography and Guide to Web Resources http://www4.umdnj.edu/camlbweb/blacknurses.html
• Female Nurses of the Civil War http://cwnurses.tripod.com/
• Florence Nightingale http://womenshistory.about.com/od/nightingale/
• History of Nursing Resources http://www.library.vcu.edu/tml/bibs/nsghis.html
• Nursing History Calendar http://www.aahn.org/calendar/index.html
• The Story of Men in American Nursing http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6011/sld002.htm

• National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/default.htm
• FaststatsAtoZ http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/
• Health Statistics http://www.hsls.pitt.edu/guides/internet/stats

University Libraries Liaison: Carol Watwood (x3912 / carol.watwood@wku.edu) last updated 3/04/2007
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