Jeanne Burke / jburke@creighton.edu / 280-5143
PDA Resources
Journals
Subscribed electronic Nursing Journals
Databases
Besides CINAHL and Medline (in the quick links above) consider these databases as well:
Multidisciplinary Databases
- Web of Science
- Academic Search Premier
- Google Scholar
- WorldCat
(Books, audiovisuals, and periodicals held primarily in North American libraries)
Subject Databases
A complete listing is available on the main resources page.
Clinical Essentials
Point-of-Care / General Reference
- UpToDate (on campus access only)
- FIRSTConsult
- eMedicine
- 5 Minute Clinical Consult
- ACP Medicine
- AccessMedicine
- MDConsult
- STAT!Ref
- ACS Surgery
Diagnosis
- Degowin's Diagnostic Examination
- Delmar's Guide to Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests
- eMedicine's Clinical eTools Over seventy-five algorithms, calculators, decision rules, diagrams, scores, and tables.
- VisualDX Visual clinical decision support software
Drug Information
Evidence-Based Sources
- Cochrane Library
- ACP's PIER
- JAMA Evidence
- Basic & Clinical Biostatistics / B. Dawson & R. Trapp
Ethics
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- eMedicine
- Stat!Ref
- MDConsult
- FirstConsult
Books and Related Resources
Disease Information
- Diseases and Disorders- A Nursing Therapeutics Manual
- 5 Minute Clinical Consult
- Nurses Pocket Guide: Diagnosis, Interventions and Rationales
Drug Information (Nursing)
- Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses
- See the general drug listings under Clinical Essentials ->
Dictionaries
Diagnosis
- Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual
- Delmar's Guide to Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests
- Nursing Diagnoses in Psychiatric Nursing
Mental Health
- DSM-IV-TR: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
- Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
- Nursing Diagnoses in Psychiatric Nursing
Nursing and Nursing Research
- Lippincott's Nursing Procedures 2009
- Foundations of Nursing Research
- Family Nursing- Research, Theory and Practice
- Delmar's Fundamental and Advanced Nursing Skills
- Delmar's geriatric nursing care plans
- Delmar's pediatric nursing care plans
- Guide to Culturally Competent Health Care
- Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women's Health Care
- Textbook of palliative nursing
- Basic and Clinical Biostatistics (Dawson)
Ethics and Health Policy
Databases for Ethics & Public Policy
- ETHXWeb
- GenETHX
- citations on the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetic and genomic research
- PAIS International (public affairs)
Patient Education Resources
- Care Notes
Traditional patient care and medication information written at a 6th to 8th grade level, and available in both English and Spanish versions. - See our complete listing on the Patient Education resource page.
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- CareNotes
- eReference encyclopedias
- Family Doctor
- MDConsult Patient education
- US PDI Advice for the Patient
Multimedia Resources
- Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy
- Interactive Anatomy
- NetAnatomy
- Anatomical Models and Simulators
- Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination—revised 4th ed. 18 videos give step-by-step guidance through each phase of a thorough patient assessment. Requires Media Player to view.
- Medical Media Systems—examination technique across all organ systems
- DVDs for Nursing
Board Review
- Exam Master - NCLEX-RN
