Nursing and Allied Health Databases
(see also
Food and Nutrition,
Health Sciences - Articles, and
Health Sciences - Reference Books
[Indexes]
[Online Books]
[Also of Interest]
- Indexes to Journals and Books:
- CINAHL
Plus with Full Text (Ebsco)
 
- Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing, biomedicine, health
sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health, and
17 other allied health disciplines, with indexing back to 1937, as well as the full text
337 of journals (some going back to 1937) plus legal cases, clinical innovations,
critical paths, drug records, research instruments, and clinical trials.
Includes Pre-CINAHL, with the newest journal articles that are in the process of being indexed, and
CINAHL Select, with the full text of an additional 170 journals.
Also indexes health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings,
standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals, and more. Includes
searchable cited references for more than 1,160 journals.
- OT
Search: The Occupational Therapy Bibliographic System (AOTF)
- Produced by the American Occupational Therapy Foundation, this indexes
occupational therapy and related subject areas,
such as rehabilitation, education, psychiatry, psychology, health
care delivery, and health administration. Also covers the related allied
health, biomedical and psychosocial literature. Includes journals,
monographs, dissertations, theses, conference proceedings, and
audio-visual materials.
- LIUCat
on the Web:
- The online public access catalog of Long Island University's
six campuses. This can be searched from any computer. No password is needed.
- YourJournals@Ovid
(LWW Nursing & Health Professions Premier Collection) (Ovid)
- Provides the full text of 80 journals.
- Online Encyclopedias and Books:
Nursing -
Nursing Administration -
Allied Health
- Nursing:
- Gale
Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Written for students and professionals in the field. Entries cover
topics in body systems and functions, conditions and common diseases,
issues and theories, techniques and practices, and devices and equipment.
Also discusses the roles of all major health professionals.
- Cochrane
Library (Wiley InterScience)
- Designed to facilitate the decisions that doctors, patients, policy makers, and others
face in health care, this provides access to over 2000 independent literature reviews
that combine the results of the world's medical research on the effects of healthcare
interventions, exploring the evidence for and against the effectiveness and appropriateness
of treatments (medications, surgery, education, etc.) in specific circumstances. It includes
the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews of healthcare interventions, the
Cochrane Methodology Register of the ways in which health care can be evaluated, the
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), the Cochrane Central Register of
Controlled Trials, the Health Technology Assessment Database, the NHS Economic
Evaluation Database, and more. Each review contains such information as: plain language
summaries, background, objectives, descriptions of studies, results, discussion, reviewers'
conclusions, potential conflicts of interest, references, comments, criticisms, and more.
- ebrary (ebrary)
- Currently
offers over 25,000 full-text books, sheet music titles, maps, reports, and other authoritative documents from more
than 180 leading academic, trade, and professional publishers. The collections are particularly strong in
business, economics, education, computers, technology, science, medicine, history,
language, literature, humanities, politics, and social sciences. Publishers include The McGraw-Hill Companies,
Random House, Penguin Classics, Taylor
& Francis, Yale University Press, John Wiley & Sons, Greenwood, and more
(more information).
- Nursing Administration:
- Accountability
in Nursing: Six Strategies to Build and Maintain a Culture of Commitment (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Provides easy-to-follow steps that will help hold staff members
accountable for their behaviors and actions.
- New
Technology in Nursing Staff Development: Choosing, Justifying, and Implementing Nontraditional Teaching Methods (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Covers the transition from the traditional desks-and-chalkboard setting
to the computer-based, virtual classroom by explaining how to use different types
of new technology and how to choose methods that fit your staff's learning styles
and your education budget.
- Nursing
Peer Review: A Practical Approach to Promoting Professional Nursing Accountability (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Provides resources on how to develop a streamlined, systematic approach to
evaluating individual nursing standards and quality patient care.
- Practical
Guide to Finance and Budgeting Skills for Nurse Managers (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- A comprehensive guide specifically designed to help new managers develop a
departmental budget. Offers updated tips and tools that breakdown the financial
side of healthcare.
- Allied Health:
(see also: Food and Nutrition
and Health Sciences - Reference Books)
- Gale
Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Written for students and professionals in the field. Entries cover
topics in body systems and functions, conditions and common diseases,
issues and theories, techniques and practices, and devices and equipment.
Also discusses the roles of all major health professionals.
- 2-1-1 Long Island
(Community Resource Database) (Middle Country Public Library)
- Previously called the Community Resource Database of Long Island and created
in partnership between the Middle Country Public Library and the United Way of Long Island,
this provides detailed information on nearly 10,000 community health, human service, and
education agencies and programs for children, teens, adults, families, and seniors in Nassau
and Suffolk counties. Areas covered include: health services - support groups - food assistance -
disability services - employment support - child and elderly care - volunteer opportunities -
family violence services - camps and youth services - financial and legal counseling -
education and training programs - heating and other emergency services -
mortgage, rent, and housing assistance - counseling and substance abuse services -
and much more. (No password needed. Telephone assistance is also available.)
- Gale
Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, 3rd ed. (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Presents current, unbiased information on alternative and
complementary medical practices, including reflexology, acupressure, acupuncture,
chelation therapy, kinesiology, yoga, chiropractic, Feldenkrais, polarity therapy,
detoxification, naturopathy, Chinese medicine, biofeedback, Ayurveda, and osteopathy.
Information on recommended therapies for specific disorders and diseases,
medicinal uses for plants and herbs, are balanced by conclusions of studies
on efficacy and analysis of current levels of acceptance by traditional scientists
and doctors.
(The 2nd
edition is also still available.)
- Handbook
of Death and Dying
(GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (See database page for description)
- Macmillan
Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
(GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (See database page for description)
- Also of Interest:
- Alt-HealthWatch
(Ebsco)
- Is a full-text database of periodicals,
peer-reviewed journals,
academic and professional publications, magazines,
consumer newsletters and
newspapers, research reports, and association
newsletters focused on complementary,
alternative, and integrated approaches to health
care and wellness across the full
spectrum of more than two hundred therapies,
modalities and perspectives addressed by
integrated medicine.
- Health
and Safety Science Abstracts (ProQuest)
- Covers public health, safety, and industrial hygiene including
aviation and aerospace safety, environmental safety, nuclear
safety, medical safety, occupational safety, natural disasters,
ergonomics, recreation safety, food, and more, as well as
health and safety related aspects of pollution, waste disposal,
radiation, pesticides, epidemics, and other phenomena. Includes
government reports, journal articles, conference proceedings,
books, and other publications. Covers 1981 to the present.
Database descriptions are adapted from each database's website.
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