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.

Nurse-physician joint practice R729.5 .N87 ------- Midwifery RG950 ------- Midwives RG950 ------- Nursing RT ------- Nursing--Authorship RT24 ------- Nursing assessment RT48- RT48.6 ------- Nursing care plans RT49 ------- Nursing records RT50 ------- Nursing informatics RT50.5 ------- Nursing--Examinations, questions, etc. RT55 ------- Nursing--Study and Teaching RT71- RT81 ------- Nursing schools RT71- RT81 ------- Nursing students RT71- RT81 ------- Nursing--Research RT81.5 ------- Nursing--Vocational Guidance RT82 ------- Nurse practitioners RT82.8 ------- Nursing models RT84.5 ------- Nursing ethics RT85 ------- Nursing--Standards RT85.5 ------- Nursing--Psychological Aspects RT86 ------- Nursing specialties RT86.7- RT86.75 ------- Nurse administrators RT89 ------- Nursing libraries Z675 .N8 ------- Nursing school libraries Z675 .N8

See also these additional Library of Congress Subject Headings:  Aviation nursing, Communication in nursing, Community health nursing, Disaster nursing, Emergency nursing, Family nursing, Geriatric nursing, Gynecologic nursing, Holistic nursing, Home nursing, Industrial nursing, Intensive care nursing, Maternity nursing, Medical office nursing, Military nursing, Minorities in nursing, Nurse anesthetists, Nursing assessment, Nursing diagnosis, Pediatric nursing, Practical nursing, Primary nursing, Psychiatric nursing, Public health nursing, Rehabilitation nursing, School nursing, Surgical nursing, Transcultural nursing.

2. To Find Journal and Magazine Articles (using indexing/abstracting/full-text services)

The following services are recommended for courses for first-year students and nonmajors:

• 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.
• Career & Technical Education has full text articles about career, vocational, & technical education.
• Google Scholar: A free Web-based Google service that restricts searches to the scholarly literature. Now features linking to full-text of articles held by WKU.
• 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.

• CINAHL (and pre-CINAHL): These databases are devoted to the fields of nursing and allied health. 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.
• 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: FirstSearch database available to faculty and graduate students (and to undergraduate students by special permission). Indexes almost 13,000 journals and magazines from 1990 onward, including some ninety percent of the ones University Libraries carries in hardcopy.
• 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]

3. Monographic and Other Materials in the Helm Library and Kentucky Building

The following are recommended for use:

• 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.

4. Department of Nursing Faculty

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

5. Related Professional Societies (for professional news, careers/jobs, memberships, etc.)

• 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/

6. Web Sites Recommended by Department of Nursing Faculty

General & Miscellaneous

• 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

Nursing Biography & History

• 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

Finding Statistics

• 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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