Nursing Resource Guide
- Allnurses.com
Includes links to associations, nursing schools, boards of nursing, nursing employment, nursing literature, nursing humor and more - BROWNson's Nursing Notes
Links to many useful nursing sites compiled by Dianne Brownson - Cybernurse.com Health Web Nursing
Links compiled by the health sciences libraries of the Greater Midwest Region (GMR) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) and those of the Committee for Institutional Cooperation.
- CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature VCU
Leading research from publications in the fields of nursing and allied health from 1982 to the present. For a tutorial for CINAHL see An Interactive Tutorial of CINAHL prepared by the University of Florida Heal Science Center Libraries. - PubMed MEDLINE VCU
The primary database of information in medical and health sciences fields including the International Nursing Index, a subset of MEDLINE. - Health Reference Center Academic VCU
Health Reference Center provides access to information in fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books and pamphlets. Designed for nursing and allied health students, as well as consumer health researchers. - STTI Registry of Nursing Research
Searchable database of over 10,000 nursing research studies; from Sigma Theta Tau International, the International Honor Society of Nursing
VCU faculty, students and staff users have access to a number of electronic journals in nursing. Use the E-journal Search or the VCU Library Catalog to locate these sources. You may search the E-journal Search page by title or perform a phrase search on the root "nurs" to find nursing-specific titles.
Other freely available online nursing titles:
- Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner Care
- Australian Electronic Journal of Nursing Education
- Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership
- JCN Journal of Community Nursing
- Online Journal of Issues in Nursing
- On-Line Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI)
- World Wide Wounds The Electronic Journal of Wound Management
- NetLibrary VCU
NetLibrary has over 142 books related to nursing including Advanced Nursing Skills: Principles and Practice, Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives for Advanced Nursing Practice, The Care of Wounds: A Guide for Nurses, A Caring Approach in Nursing Administration, Pharmacological Aspects of Nursing Care, and Fundamentals of Nursing Research. - Online Books Page in the subject section for Medicine (R) are a number of nursing titles available freely on the Internet.
- Delmar's Guide to Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests (STAT!Ref) VCU
Delmar, 2002 - Diseases and Disorders: A Nursing Therapeutics Manual 2nd ed. (STAT!Ref) VCU
F.A Davis, 2002
- Cultural Competence Resources
Extensive bibliography compiled by the Health Sciences Library at the University of Buffalo - Cultural Competence Models in Nursing: A Selected Annotated Bibliography VCU
Bibliography by Zuwang Shen published in the Journal of Transcultural Nursing in 2004 - Cultural Competence
Base concepts and Case Studies by Culturediversity.org - Cultural Competence: Online Resources
- Nursing Resources for Evidence Based Practice
Links to nursing resources compiled by librarians at Tompkins-McCaw Library cover topics such as evidence based practice definitions, filters and tools, databases, models and best practice guidelines. - Evidence-Based Medicine
List of resources compiled by librarians at Tompkins-McCaw Library. - Cochrane Library VCU
The Cochrane Library provides access via the web to reliable information compiled by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international network of individuals and institutions committed to preparing, maintaining, and disseminating systematic, up-to-date reviews of the effects of health care.
- Searching and Evaluating Web Sites
Useful tools for reviewing web sites and bibliography compiled by the Louise Darling Biomedical Library at UCLA. - Evaluating the Literature: Quality Filtering
- Evaluating Health-related Web Pages
Links to resources compiled by librarians at the Tompkins-McCaw Library
What is a scholarly journal?
- Scholarly Journals Versus Other Periodicals
- Scholarly/Professional/Popular Periodicals: what's the difference?
- What Do You Do When Your Instructor Says to Read a Scholarly Article?
Reading and Writing
- Reading a Paper
Articles originally published in the British Medical Journal on how to read a research paper - Checklist for Reading a Paper
- A checklist derived from Greenhalgh, Trisha. How to read a paper: the basics of evidence based medicine. 2nd Edition. London: BMJ, 2001
- Users Guides to Evidence Based Practice
Series of articles published in JAMA about evaluating and using different types of information - Academic Writing
Useful links for writing in the academic environment - A Guide to Writing
Compiled by the School of Nursing and Health Sciences at George Mason University.
Critical Thinking
- Critical Thinking and Evaluation of Sources
- Critical Thinking on the Web
- What is Critical Thinking
- Critical Thinking: To Think Like a Nurse
- Center for Ethics & Human Rights
Site for the American Nurses Association's Center - Nursing Ethics
Site prepared by the Boston College School of Nursing with numerous links related to nursing ethics - Nursing Ethics.ca
Canadian site on nursing ethics - National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature (NRCBL)
Links to bioethics literature compiled by the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University
- Agency for Healthcase Research and Quality
Links to Nursing Research resources from AHRQ - Eastern Nursing Research Society
Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS) is a forum for nurse researchers to promote and support regional nursing research in the Northeastern United States. - National Institute of Nursing Research Nursing Research
List of web resources compiled by the Health Sciences Library at State University of New York at Buffalo - Registry of Nursing Research
The Registry of Nursing Research is an electronic research resource that is maintained by Sigma Theta Tau International
For links to web sites focusing on specific nursing specialties, try Nurse Web Search Nursing Specialties or some of the specific links below. Additional information can be found on the web sites of the various nursing specialty groups
- Anesthesia Nursing
- Critical Care Nursing
- Emergency Nursing
- Nurse Practitioners
- Pediatric Nursing
- Psychiatric Nursing
- Renal Nursing
- The Nursing Theory Page
Links to nursing theory sites hosted by Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science at the University of San Diego - Nursing Theory Link Page
Site prepared by Clayton College and State University Department of Nursing - Nursing Theory Page
Links to resources on nursing theorists compiled by Nursescribe
- PDA Guide for Nursing
Compiled by the Yale University Library - Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs)
Prepared by the Oklahoma University College of Nursing and includes tutorials, hardware and software information as well as links to other resources. - Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) Resources
VCU Libraries web page with health sciences PDA resources - What Nurses Need to Know about Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs)
- American Nurses Association
- American Public Health Association
- NLN -- The National League of Nursing
Specialty Groups
- Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses
- American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nurses
- American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
- American Psychiatric Nurses Association
- American Association of Colleges of Nursing
- American Association of Critical Care Nurses
- American Association of Managed Care Nurses
- American Association of Neuroscience Nursing
- American Association of Nurse Anesthetists
- American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Nurses
- American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM)
- American College of Nurse Practitioners
- American Holistic Nurse Association
- American Nephrology Nurses' Association (ANNA)
- American Organization of Nurse Executives
- American Psychiatric Nurses Association
- American Society of Ophthalmic Registered Nurses (OSORN)
- American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses
- Association of Nurses in AIDS Care
- Association of PeriOperating Room Nurses, Inc.
- Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses
- Case Management Society of America (CMSA)
- Emergency Nurses Association
- Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association
- National Association of Neonatal Nurses
- National Association of Orthopedic Nurses
- National Black Nurses' Association
- National Council of State Boards of Nursing
- National Federation of Licensed Practical Nurses
- North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA)
- Nurses Organization of Veterans Affairs
- Oncology Nurse Society
- Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society
- Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses
virginia professional organizations
- Virginia Nurses Association
- Virginia League for Nursing
- Virginia Licensed Practical Nurse Association
Specialty Groups
- Greater Richmond Area Chapter of American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
- Legislative Coalition of Virginia Nurses
- Virginia Association of Colleges of Nursing
- Virginia Association of Nurse Anesthetists
- Virginia Association of Rehabilitation Nurses
- Virginia Association of School Nurses
- Virginia Chapter of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners
- Virginia Council of Nurse Practitioners
- Virginia Emergency Nurses Association
- Virginia State Association of Occupational Health Nurses
- Virginia Nursing Students Association
- Virginia Organization of Nurse Executives
- Virginia Partnership for Nursing
- Virginia Section of AWHONN
- Virginia State Association of Occupational Health Nurses
- History of Nursing Resources
Links to history of nursing resources compiled by the Tompkins-McCaw Library - Nursing History from Brownson's Nursing Notes Virginia Nursing History
Links to online resources related to the history of nursing in Virginia