Subject Resource Guide for Nursing
Selected and updated by reference librarians in support of the TC3 programs in Nursing. Selection criteria include quality, content, reliability and currency.
Books and Media
Articles and Databases
- TC3 Databases for Periodicals and Scholarly Journals
- Open Access Journals, Databases, Directories and Repositories
Selected Websites and Internet Resources
Books and Media
Browsing the Nursing Collection
The call numbers for nursing are RT. If you can't find what you are looking for by browsing the shelves, please consult the TC3 Library Catalog, the SUNY Union Catalog or WorldCat to find books at other libraries. If you need help, ask a librarian in person or use the Ask-A-Librarian service.
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)
You can search for materials in the Library's catalog by keyword or Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). The red, five-volume set, Library of Congress Subject Headings, is located in front of the reference desk, next to the TC3 Books and Media Catalog computers terminals. Specific subject headings are far too numerous to list on this page. Here are just a few examples of LCSH in Nursing:
- Diabetes -- Nursing
- Geriatric nursing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Midwifery -- United States -- History
- National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses -- Study guides
- Nurse and patient
- Nurses -- Biography
- Nursing -- Examinations, questions, etc.
- Nursing -- Mathematics -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Nursing -- Vocational guidance
- Nursing -- Social aspects
- Patient education
- Psychiatric nursing
- Wounds and injuries -- Nursing
Selected Books Available in the TC3 Library
You'll find most of these books in the labelled "REFERENCE" section of the stacks — whenever the Call Number begins with the letters, "REF." These books must be used within the library.
- Dictionary of Nursing Theory and Research [REF RT81.5 .P69 2006]
Electronic Books
NetLibrary - NetLibrary is a collection of online books including over 529 medical and health-related titles. Find out how to set up an account. Selected titles include:
- Advanced Nursing Skills: Principles and Practice (2000)
- Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly Patient (1999)
- Changing Nature of Nursing in a Managerial Age (1999)
- Early Black American Leaders in Nursing (1999)
- Encyclopedia of Aging (2002)
- Encyclopedia of Public Health (2002)
- Essential Coloproctology for Nurses (1999)
- Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine (2001)
- Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine (2002)
- Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing & Allied Health (2002)
- Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying (2003)
- Nurse Prescribing: Principles and Practice (1999)
- Paediatric Oncology: Acute Nursing Care (1999)
- Philosophy of Nursing (2000)
- Practical Handbook for Community Health Nurses: Working With Children and Their Parents (1999)
- Spirituality in Nursing: Standing On Holy Ground (1999)
- Western Medicine: An Illustrated History (1997)
Gale Virtual Reference Library - Consists of over 100 standard academic reference encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources. Among the health related titles are:
- Encyclopedia of Aging (2002) - 4 vols.
- Encyclopedia of Bioethics (2004) - 5 vols.
- Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior (2001) - 4 vols.
- Encyclopedia of Public Health (2002) - 4 vols.
- Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine (2001) - 4 vols.
- Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine (2002) - 5 vols.
- Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health (2002) - 5 vols.
- Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying (2002) - 2 vols.
NCBI Bookshelf - The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) hosts the NCBI Bookshelf, where you can view and search contents of biomedical textbooks. Current textbooks include the following titles (for a complete list please go to the NCBI Bookshelf website):
- Cancer Medicine, 6th ed. (2003)
- Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults (1998)
- The Genetic Landscape of Diabetes (2004)
- Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma (1997)
- Inflammatory Atherosclerosis: Characteristics of the Injurious Agent (2002)
- Molecular Biology of the Cell, 4th edition (2002)
- Historical Works: Medicine in the Americas (2004) - 5 vols.
- The Sixth Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (1997)
National Academy Press - Full-text of over 3,000 books, searchable and categorized by subject, including Health & Medicine. Selected titles include:
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States (2005)
- Emergency Care for Children: Growing Pains (2006)
- Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality (2003)
- Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses (2004)
- Military Nursing Research: Bibliographies (1996)
- Preventing Medication Errors:Quality Chasm Series (2007)
- Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Lectures -- 2001: Exploring Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care (2002)
- When Children Die: Improving Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and Their Families (2003)
- Who Will Keep the Public Healthy? Educating Public Health Professionals for the 21st Century (2003)
Articles and Databases
Tompkins Cortland Community College Library subscribes to a number of Electronic Databases which provide access to abstracts or full-text articles from journals and newspapers. You can also consult our list of Periodical Titles in Full Text Electronic Format. There are options to search by publication title or browse journals in selected subjects. Recommended subjects include: Health & Biological Sciences and Nursing. The TC3 also Library subscribes to many Nursing Journals that are available for reading in the library.
TC3 Databases for Periodicals and Full-Text Articles
Subscription databases which may be searched to locate full-text articles on nursing and allied health issues. You may access them from any computer with Internet access if you input your TC3 ID number.
- CINAHL Plus with Full Text - Subscription database provides full text for 391 journals and indexing for 3,123 journals in the fields of nursing and allied health. Includes legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. Includes Pre-CINAHL, which provides current awareness of new journal articles.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library - Subscription database consists of over 100 standard academic reference encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. See list of included reference books.
- Health Reference Center Academic - Subscription database provides citations, abstracts, and full-text articles on fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health and safety, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, etc.
- MasterFile Premier - Subscription database with full text for over 770 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, social sciences, science, health, and much more.
- MEDLINE - Over 12,000,00 records from 1965 to the present, most with substantial abstracts, covering all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing.
- PubMed - A service of the National Library of Medicine, PubMed provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. It includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. (Abstracts only - no full-text)
- PsycArticles - Subscription database provides more than 34,000 full-text articles from 43 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. All journals included in this database are peer-reviewed and full-text.
- ScienceDirect - Subscription database provides access to over 700 full-text Elsevier journals in the sciences, social sciences, nursing, medicine and psychology.
Open Access Journals, Databases, Directories, and Repositories
Scholarly articles are increasingly available for free in many open access journals and digital repositories. Even if you can't access the full text, you can search for peer-reviewed articles.
- ClinicalTrials.gov - "Regularly updated information about federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers. ClinicalTrials.gov gives you information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details."
- Directory of Open Access Journals - Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
- High Wire Press - Archive for free, online full text science articles.
- PubMed - Database of the National Library of Medicine includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. UseMeSH Browser to locate Medical subject headings used by the National Library of Medicine
- The National Academies - The National Academies consists of four organizations: the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council. They "address critical national issues and give advice to the federal government and the public." You can access resources (journals, news, etc.) by Topic. Topics include: Agriculture, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Environmental Issues, Health and Medicine, plus more.
- National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
- SciELO: Scientific Electronic Library Online - Website provides free access to journals from Brazil and other Latin America and Caribbean countries. Available in three languages: ENGLISH, ESPAÑOL, PORTUGUÊS.
- Science Tracer Bullets - Library of Congress series contains research guides that help you locate information on science and technology subjects.
- TOXNET - National Library of Medicine database on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.
Selected Websites and Internet Resources
Criteria for selection include: authority of publisher, significant breadth and/or depth of content, reliability and currency of information.
General Nursing Resources
- Access Excellence at the National Health Museum - Website for "health and bioscience teachers and learners" offers science news updates, images, and learning activities.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- CINAHL Sources - "Information on selected World Wide Web sites of interest to nursing and allied health professionals, researchers, students and others. Links and descriptions of each site are provided.
- FDA: Information for Health Professionals
- Health Sciences Library - SUNY Upstate Medical University.
- Healthy People 2010 - Full-text of documents.
- HIV/AIDS - New York State Department of Health
- HIV Clinical Resource - Collaboration between the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases.
- International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) - World Health Organization. The ICD is "used to classify diseases and other health problems recorded on many types of health and vital records including death certificates and hospital records."
- MedlinePlus - National Library of Medicine's website for consumer health information.
- National Institutes of Health
- Specialized Information Services - "The Specialized Information Services (SIS) Division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) is responsible for information resources and services in toxicology, environmental health, chemistry, HIV/AIDS, and specialized topics in minority health.
- S*P*I*R*A*L: Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages - Patient information is available in 8 languages: Cambodian/Khmer, Chinese, Korean, Lao, Thai, Vietnamese, English.
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- U.S. Food & Drug Administration
- World Health Organization (WHO) - Established in 1948, WHO "is the United Nations specialized agency for health." You can look for information by country, topic and/or publication.
New York State Resources
- Mental Health Association in Tompkins County - Provides a Guide to Mental Health Professionals
- New York State Department of Health
- Health Topics A-Z
- Guidelines for Exposure to Blood and/or Body Secretions (9/1/99) - pdf format
- New York State Education Department Office of the Professions
- Registered Professional Nurse, Licensed Practical Nurse
- Nurse Practitioner Requirements
- New York State Legislature - Search the Laws of New York for Article 139 of Education Law, defining nursing practice and licensure
- Online License Verification
- Section 29.2: Unprofessional Conduct - Includes infection prevention
- Part 52.12: Registration of Curricula- Nursing
- NY State Education Law: Title VIII - the Professions
History of Nursing
Selected Tutorials on How to Use the Databases
- Library Lessons: Databases - Basics of searching databases, including the library's catalog.
- CINAHL Tutorial - The University of Florida Health Sciences Library developed the following interactive modules for research in the CINAHL database: Preconcepts, Navigation, Examples, Tutorials and Tip Sheets.
Last update: Thursday, March 20, 2008
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