LibGuides: Nursing: Find Articles

Databases

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Please note that online access to the article databases is restricted to current WSU students, as marked by a icon.

CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
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Provides indexing for more than 5,300 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health and contains records dating back to 1937. It covers the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. 30 simultaneous users
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Clinical Pharmacology This link opens in a new window
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A compendium of current drug information to assist in improving outcomes and streamlining workflow.
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To start using the new Clinical Pharmacology app from your mobile device, please check out this guide.
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
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Collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Includes systematic reviews, methods, studies, technology assessments, economic evaluations, and individual clinical trials.
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Consumer Health Complete This link opens in a new window
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Provides consumer-oriented health content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. . It is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. Includes the Clinical Reference System and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs.
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CRC Press eBooks This link opens in a new window
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CRCnetBASE offers instant access to the world's premier scientific, technical and medical eBook references. Current collection includes the following subject areas: ergonomics, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, health care.
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Database of Promoting Health Effectiveness Reviews (DoPHER)
Open resource that focuses on public health and effectiveness of health promotion. Database contains systematic reviews and non-systematic reviews.

Health & Wellness Resource Center (with Alternative Health Module) This link opens in a new window
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Citations, abstracts, and full-text articles from health/medical journals, general interest periodicals, pamphlets, videos, and reference encyclopedias and directories. Also includes links to health assessment sites and government databases. Coverage: 1980-present.
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LILACS Virtual Health Library
Containing health information in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. This database is the main clearinghouse for Latin America and the Caribbean.

MEDLINE (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, Searchable using MeSH (Medical Subject Headings).
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MEDLINE (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
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Provides citations and abstracts for over 4,800 journals published worldwide in the life sciences with an emphasis on medicine and health. Produced by the National Library of Medicine. Searchable using MeSH (Medical Subject Headings.) Coverage: 2000-present.
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MedNar
This is a specialized search engine that combs the Deep Web for materials that are not usually retrieved by other search engines like Google and Yahoo. MedNar is specifically aimed at medical research and searches over 300 medical databases.

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source This link opens in a new window
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Citations and abstracts of articles in more than 800 journals covering nursing, allied health, alternative medicine, etc. Full-text access to over 700 journal titles and 12,000 dissertations. Coverage: 1986-present.
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PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
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The American Psychological Association's (APA) resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations. It is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health, and contains citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s. Included is information on the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others.
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PsycTESTS This link opens in a new window
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A repository of ready-to-use tests and measures from the APA. International in scope, this resource provides access to thousands of actual test instruments relevant to psychology and related fields, such as psychiatry, education, medicine, business, social work and more, most of which are available for immediate download and use in teaching and research. A source of structured information about tests and while focused on contemporary instances of test use, has coverage that spans more than a century.
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PubMed (Medline) This link opens in a new window
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Citations, abstracts, and some full-text from thousands of biomedical journals published worldwide in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences. Coverage: 1966-present.

Trip Database
Their motto is "Find Evidence Fast". The databases focuses on evidence based medicine. Free to access. Creating an account is recommended but not required.

UpToDate This link opens in a new window
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An evidence-based resource for medical knowledge at the point of care. In addition to being an aggregation and report of the latest research; UpToDate presents a comprehensive synthesis of the evidence, followed by recommendations that can be acted on at the point of care. It includes medical calculators, patient education materials, clinical content, and more.
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If you choose to use the UpToDate app, please create a free, personal account from a computer or laptop on the WSU campus network. You will log into the UpToDate app with your free, personal account.

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Grey Literature

Grey Literature are materials that are not found in Journals or Textbooks. These could be theses, dissertations, information sheets from pharmaceutical companies, government documents, etc.

OpenGrey
OG is a grey literature site for Europe. The site indexes of 700,000 items.
Grey Literature Report
From the New York Academy of Medicine, the Grey Literature Report focuses primarily on Health Policy, Healthy Aging, Prevention, Eliminating Health Disparities, Engaging Communities, and Global Health.