Nursing/Nursing Administration

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Subject Directories

• Google > Nursing

Internet Sites

• Agency for Healthcare and Research Quality
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention
• Elsevier Oncology
• Health Line
• Healthfinder
• Medical Image Databases on the Internet - from the University of Texas health Science Center at San Antonio, medical and health images.
• Medline Plus
• MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
• Merck Manuals
• Michigan eLibrary > Health, Medicine & Wellness
• National Cancer Institute SEER – Cancer statistics
• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine - from the National Institute of Health

Health Organizations

• Directory of Health Organizations Online
• DALNET > Healthcalendar.org - Searchable calendar of events sponsored by health-related organizations in southeast Michigan

Professional Associations

• Michigan Nurses Association
• American Nurses Association

Overviews of the Profession

• Occupational Outlook Handbook: Registered Nurses

Articles: Indexes and Full Text

• CINAHL (EBSCOhost)
  • On-Campus
  • Off-Campus
• Health Reference Center Academic (Infotrac)
  • On-Campus
  • Off-Campus
• Health & Wellness Resource Center (Gale)
  • On-Campus
  • Off-Campus
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCOhost)
  • On-Campus
  • Off-Campus
• Proquest Nursing  & Allied Health Source
  • On-Campus
  • Off-Campus
• Blachford, Stacey L., Ed. Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2005.
  This is a full-text reference title from the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
  • On-Campus
  • Off-Campus
•  Longe, Jacqueline, Ed. Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2005.
  This is a full-text reference title from the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
• On-Campus
• Off-Campus
• Longe, Jacqueline L., Ed. Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine. 3rd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2006.
  This is a full-text reference title from the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
• On-Campus
• Off-Campus
• Thackery, Ellen, Ed. Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2005.
  This is a full-text reference title from the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
• On-Campus
• Off-Campus
• Free Medical Journals.com
• MEDLINEplus
• PubMed

Print Sources

• To find print (and some non-print) materials in OCC Libraries, search the Library Catalog.   Some sample Library of Congress Subject Headings are:
  • aged -- medical care
  • chronic diseases -- nursing

• Selected Reference Books
  • Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment.  Los Altos, CA: Lange Medical Publications, 2001.
         AH, HL, OR, RO & SF  Reference  RC 71 .A14
  • Magalini, Sergio I.  Dictionary of Medical Syndromes.  4th ed. Philadelphia : Lippincott-Raven, 1997.
         HL  Reference  RC 69 .M33 1997
  • Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy.  Rahway, N.J. : Merck, 1999.
         AH, HL, OR & RO  Reference  RC 55 .M4
  • Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary.  Philadelphia : F.A. Davis Co., 2001.
         HL, OR, RO & SF  Reference  R 121.T18

• Browsing Call Numbers (in Library of Congress Classification)
  • R  Medicine (General)
  • RC  Internal medicine
  • RG  Gynecology and obstetrics
  • RJ  Pediatrics
  • RT  Nursing

OCC Departmental Web Pages

• Nursing Department

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