Find Resources by Subject
Subject Guide - Nursing
Compiled by Sue Leibild, Allied Health Services Librarian Liaison.
Updated 2006.
Selected Reference Books
REF QM 23.2 .G 73 2005 Gray's Anatomy
REF QM 25 .P 46 2004 Photographic Atlas of the Body
REF RC194 .R36 1998 Random House Webster's Medical Spell Checker
REF RM300 .W67 2002 Essentials of Pharmacology for Health Occupations
REF RT48 .S64 2002 Photoguide of Nursing Skills
REF RT41 .T46 2004 Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing
REF RJ245 .W46 2001 Essentials of Pediatric Nursing
REF RA395. A3 R 685 2003 Health Care Policy & Politics A to
Z
REF R123 .M396 2002 Medical Terms & Abbreviations
REF RC455.2 .C4 D536 2000 DSM IV TR
REF RM125 .S668 2005 PDR Nurse’s Drug Handbook: The Information
Standard for
Prescription Drugs and Nursing Considerations
Selected Circulating Books
RD99 .M387 2003 Alexander’s Care of the Patient in Surgery
RT50 .C68 2000 Documentation: The Language of Nursing
RT85. F45 Ethics and Law in Nursing: Professional Perspectives
R123. F7 1998 Understanding Medical Terminology
RT62 .A53 2001 Nursing Leadership, Management and the Professional
Practice
for the LPN/LVN
RT108 .D56 2003 Disaster nursing and emergency preparedness for
chemical, biological, and radiological terrorism and other hazards
RT5.M4 W45 2004 Code green : money-driven hospitals and the dismantling
of nursing
RT48 .H448 2007 Health assessment made incredibly visual!
RC954 .M356 2004 Management guidelines for nurse practitioners working
with older adults
KF2915.N83 N877 2003 Nursing malpractice : sidestepping legal minefields
KF3821 .L42 2002 Legal and ethical issues in health occupations
Full-Text Books Online
NetLibrary
This database includes access to such titles as: The Changing Shape
of Nursing Practice : The Role of Nurses in the Hospital Division
of Labor, Telenursing : Nursing Practice in Cyberspace, Advanced
Nursing Skills : Principles and Practice, Caring for People in Pain,
Nursing Assistant Exam, Occupational Health Law, Health Assessment
through the Lifespan, Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Work
Environment of Nurses, Medical Statistics Made Easy, Pain Medicine
and Management : Just the Facts, and Power & Conflict between
Doctors and Nurses : Breaking Through the Inner Circle in Clinical
Care.
Emedicine. Medical Reference
Merck
Manual of Medical Information
Print Magazines in Kiefer Library
American Journal of Nursing
Journal of the American Medical Association
The Library’s subscriptions to magazines that are of interest
to our Health Science students are primarily in electronic format.
Full-text articles are available in electronic formats through online
databases. (see below)
Magazine, Journal & Newspaper
Article Databases or Online Periodicals
Academic
Search Premier | Off-Campus
Access
Facts
on File | Off-Campus
Access
Proquest
Research Library | Off-Campus
Access
Proquest Research Library gives
access to many full-text Health Science materials such as Nursing Standard,
American Journal of Public Health, American Journal of Critical Care,
Association of Operating Room Nurses, Journal of Allied Health, Journal
of Gerontological Nursing, Journal of Nursing Education,
Mental Health Nursing, Nursing Ethics, and Nursing
Management.
BioMed Central Free
Journal Articles
Online Journal of Issues
in Nursing
Southern
Medical Journal
National Library of Medicine
Other Library
Materials
Video/DVD
MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE #5-A01 Being
a Nursing Assistant # 1: Infection
MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE #5-A07 Being a Nursing Assistant # 7: Measuring
and Recording Vital Signs
MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE # 5-A11 Becoming a Nursing
Assistant # 11: Safety
Procedures
Searching the Library Catalog
The above titles are just a few of the resources available for you.
The Kiefer Library Catalog, http://tlc.aims.edu/ provides
access to resources available at Aims Community College. Use the
following subjects (Library of Congress) and keywords to search in
the library catalog:
Nursing, nurses, medical personnel, nursing assessment, emergency
nursing, surgical nursing, nursing theory, nursing care, critical
care, intensive care nursing, nursing care plans, nursing models,
and nursing philosophy.
Selected Web Resources
EMedicine
National Cancer Institute
MedlinePlus
Center for Disease Control
Colorado Board of
Nursing
Colorado Center
for Nursing Excellence
Medi-Smart
National Institutes of Health
U.S.
Dept. of Health & Human
Services
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
PubMed
Think Cultural Health
Ethnomed
Drug
Digest- Pill Identification
American Heart Association
National Mental Health
Information Center
WebMD:
Medical Tests
American
College of Emergency Physicians
Selected Statistical
Resources
U.S. Dept. of Labor
Registered Nurses
National
Center for Injury Prevention and Control
U.S. Dept. of Labor
Health Care
Selected Online Images and
Other Media
American
Red Cross Virtual Museum
Virtual Hospital
History
of Nursing Museum
MedChoice Photo
Rounds
Other Library Catalogs
Colorado State University
Loveland Public Library
Prospector: Colorado Unified
Catalog
University of Northern College Library
Catalog
High Plains Library District
Windsor-Severance
Library District
|