Nursing Research Guide
Databases
Reference
Online
Credo Reference
A collection of online encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference sources. Search for a topic in all subject areas, individual or multiple subjects, or in a specific book. Titles of interest for Nursing include:
• Churchill Livingstone's Dictionary of Nursing
• Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, & Health Professions
• Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
• The Human Body Book: An Illustrated Guide to Its Structure, Function and Disorders
• The New Harvard Guide to Women's Health
Print
• Adult Health Concerns Handbook;
Location: Reference Collection, 2 nd Floor
Call Number: RC82 .A38 2008
• Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine; Location: Reference Collection, 2 nd Floor
Call Number: RC46 .H333 2008
• Plunkett's Health Care Industry Almanac; Location: Reference Collection, 2 nd Floor
Call Number: RA410.53.P56
• Physicians' Desk Reference: PDR; Location: Reference Collection, 2 nd Floor
Call Number: RS 75.P5
• Stedman’s Medical Dictionary;
Location: Reference Collection,
2nd Floor
Call Number: R121.S8 2008
Websites
Health Statistics
• World Health Organization. Four different databases are available from the WHO. These databases
include national statistics for 70 core indicators, data on chronic diseases and their risk factors, data and statistics for infectious diseases, and regional statistics from WHO offices.
http://www.who.int/research/en/
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Data and Statistics. Get data and statistics on a
wide range of health topics.
http://www.cdc.gov/DataStatistics/
• Wide-ranging OnLine Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) A query system for the analysis of public health data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Datasets are also available. http://wonder.cdc.gov/Welcome.html
• New York City Department of Health. My Community's Health Includes topical and geographic
reports and datasets, as well as EpiQuery, a web-based system providing basic data analyses on
several datasets.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/community/community.shtml
• The Office of Women's Health. Quick Health Data Online Includes demographics, mortality, natality, reproductive health, violence, prevention, disease and mental health. State- and county-level data
for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and US territories and possessions. Data are available by
gender, race and ethnicity and come from a variety of national and state sources. http://www.healthstatus2010.com/owh/index.html
• University of Michigan: Health Statistics on the Web. A comprehensive list of links to reliable websites providing statistical information on health-related topics http://www.lib.umich.edu/government-documents-center/explore/browse/statistics+health/938/search/
Healthcare and Nursing Professionals
• EthnoMed. A joint project of University of Washington Health Sciences Library and the Harborview Medical Center's Community House Calls Program, this website provides medical and cultural information on immigrant and refugee groups. The focus is on groups that are prevalent in the Seattle area, but much of the information is applicable to other geographic areas.
http://www.ethnomed.org/
• Lippincott's NursingCenter.Com Created for nurses by nurses, NursingCenter.com provides clinical and professional information, as well as a drug information and articles from open access peer-reviewed nursing journals.
http://www.nursingcenter.com/home/index.asp
• Merck Manual for Healthcare Professionals. An online medical reference book of symptoms and conditions from Merck.
http://www.merck.com/mmpe/index.html
• NLM Gateway, a Web-based system that lets users search simultaneously in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). It allows users of NLM services to initiate searches from one Web interface, providing "one-stop searching" for many of NLM's information resources or databases, including bibliographic databases and consumer health portals. http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd?GMResults%26loc=lhc
• NLM Drug Information Portal Information available for 18,000 drugs. Search by drug name or category. http://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov/drugportal/drugportal.jsp
Portals for Consumer Health Information
• National Institutes of Health National Institutes of Health.
http://www.nih.gov/
• NOAH: New York Online Access to Health.
http://www.noah-health.org/en/search/health.html