Nursing Databases & Web Sites

Databases

For NC LIVE databases, go to www.nclive.org. Click on ‘Medical and Health,’ then choose your database. NC LIVE databases require a password off campus, which you can get from the library.

CINAHL with Full-Text (EBSCOhost) NC LIVE

The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health (CINAHL) database provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health.

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source (ProQuest) NC LIVE

Health Source: Consumer Edition (EBSCOHost) NC LIVE

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCOHost) NC LIVE

PsycInfo (EBSCOHost) NC LIVE

“American Psychological Association's PsycINFO database is the comprehensive international bibliographic database of psychology.”

PubMed NC LIVE
PubMed is a web site that allows you to search MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine's database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, and veterinary medicine.

OmniFile Full Text (H.W. Wilson)

Go to ACC library home page, click on Wilson Omnifile.

www.alamancecc.edu/services_for_students/learning_resources_center/index.php

Web sites

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

http://www.cdc.gov/

E-medicine From Web MD. “The original open access comprehensive medical textbook for all clinical fields. 10,000 Contributors; 6,500 Articles.”

http://emedicine.com/

Healthfinder U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services. Goal: "to improve consumer access to selected health information from government agencies, their many partner organizations, and other reliable sources that serve the public interest."
http://www.healthfinder.gov/

HealthLink Plus Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, Links to health sites.
http://www.healthlinkplus.org/

HIV InSite “Comprehensive, up-to-date information on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and policy from the University of California San Francisco.”
http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/

Mayo Clinic Health Oasis Editors of the site include more than 1,200 physicians, scientists, writers and educators at the Mayo Clinic, a non-profit institution with more than 100 years of history in patient care, medical research and education.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/

Medem A project of the leading medical societies in the United States including the American Medical Association.

http://www.medem.com/

A service of the US National Library of Medicine

National Center for Health Statistics
The site of the Department of Health and Human Services' major statistical agency has data on infant and child health, diseases and births and deaths, and much more.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/default.htm

Omni Medical Search

"Search authoritative medical search engines, non-commercial web sites, image libraries and the latest health and medical news."

http://www.omnimedicalsearch.com/

RxList: The Internet Drug Index

“Information on more than 4,500 popular drugs written in plain English and more than 3,000 in plain Spanish.”

http://www.rxlist.com/script/main/hp.asp

National Guideline Clearinghouse a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

http://ngc.gov/

EVIDENCE BASED MEDICAL RESEARCH

CINAHL with Full-Text (EBSCOhost) NC LIVE

The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health (CINAHL) database provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health.

To find evidence-based articles:

Go to NC LIVE (www.nclive.org). Under ‘Browse Resources,’ on the left side, click on ‘Medical and Health.’ Choose the ‘CINAHL w/Full Text’ database. Click on the ‘Advanced search’ tab.Uncheck the ‘Suggest subject terms’ box. Put your subject in the ‘Find’ box. Click in the ‘Full text’ box. Scroll down to ‘Special Interest’ (the last box on the page.) In that box, scroll down and click on ‘Evidence Based Practice.’ Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on ‘Search.’

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source (ProQuest)

Go to NC LIVE (www.nclive.org). Click on ‘Browse Resources,’ then ‘Vendor.’ Choose Proquest Company.

To find evidence-based articles:

Click on the ‘Advanced’ tab. Type your subject in the first search box. Leave the box on the right on ‘Citation and document text.’ In the second box, after the first ‘AND’, type ‘evidence based medicine.’ In the box to the right, choose ‘Subject.’

Limit the results to ‘Full Text Documents Only.’

Click on the ‘Search’ button.

For Help:

Pat Leamon, Reference Librarian, ACC Library

leamonp@alamancecc.edu

336-506-4208

03/05/2008