Subject Guide - Nursing & Healthcare Sciences
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- Alt HealthWatch: Full-text from alternative health publications, many peer-reviewed.
- CINAHL Plus with Full Text: Articles from over 620 nursing and allied health publications.
- eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) - Health Sciences Collection: A special subset of the Core Collection.
- eBook Nursing Collection (EBSCOhost): Includes clinical guides, evidence-based practice manuals, practical handbooks, and professional growth titles for nursing
- Films On Demand
- Gale Interactive - Human Anatomy: Study human anatomy with these interactive 3-D models.
- Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition: 550 journals in health disciplines, plus drug information.
- Learning Express PrepSTEP - Career Preparation: see "Prepare for Nursing Exams"
- MEDLINE: Authoritative information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, pre-clinical sciences, and more.
- ProQuest: Nursing and Allied Health Premium: Information from leading nursing and allied health publications.
- SAGE Video Collection: Nursing: Watch nursing practitioners in accredited demonstrations, case studies, nursing history, and more.
- Salem Press: Find full-text reference sources in Literature, History, Science, and Health.
- QM - Human anatomy
- QP 141 - Nutrition (physiology)
- R - Medicine
- R 123 - Medical terminology. Abbreviations.
- R 697 - Allied health personnel, including physicians' assistants.
- R 728.5 - Medical billing and coding
- R 728.8 - Medical assistant; medical office assistant
- RA - Public aspects of medicine
- RA 421 to 790.95 - Public health.
- RA 784 - Nutrition (preventive medicine)
- RA 421 to 790.95 - Public health.
- RB - Pathology
- RB 24 to RB 33 - Pathological anatomy and histology
- RB 37 to RB 56.5 - Clinical pathology. Laboratory technique.
- RB 45.15 - Phlebotomy
- RM - Therapeutics. Pharmacology
- RM 138 - Drug prescribing.
- RM 214 - Diet therapy.
- RM 300 to RM 666 - Drugs and their actions.
- RM 695 too RM 893 - Physical medicine. Physical therapy.
- RS - Pharmacy
- RS 125 to RS 141.9 - Formularies.
- RS 192 to RS 201 - Pharmaceutical technology; Pharmaceutical dosage forms.
- RT - Nursing
- CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Eatright: Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
- FDA: U. S. Food and Drug Administration
- Food and Nutrition Information Center from the USDA National Agricultural Library.
- Louisiana Department of Health & Hospitals
- MedTerms Medical Dictionary, from MedicineNet.com, defines over 16,000 medical terms. MedicineNet.com also offers health information and news.
- National Institutes of Health, from the U. S. Department of Health & Human Services, offers information on health topics, news, research, publications, and more, including:
- MedlinePlus health information
- PubMed covers over36 million citations and may include links to full-text content
- Safety and Health Topics: Healthcare from OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
- AHIMA: The American Health Information Management Association
- American Association of Medical Assistants
- Medical Billing and Coding.org provides information on the profession.
- NALPN: National Association of Licensed Practical Nurses
- Occupational Outlook Handbook provides info on pay, job outlook, and more.
- Practical Nursing.org provides information on the profession
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