Finding the Best Evidence to Meet Nursing Information Needs
Web Links in order discussed (updated September 29, 2005, with Nursing Theory page corrections July 4, 2006)
Nursing information needs: Evidence-based practice
Internet
links
- Hardin MD - Nursing http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/nurs.html
- Nursing Sites on the World Wide Web http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/hsl/internet/nsgsites.html
- HealthWeb - Nursing http://healthweb.org/browse.cfm?subjectid=60
- OMNI - Organising Medical Networked Information http://omni.ac.uk/
- CINAHLsources Web Index http://www.cinahl.com/csources/csources.htm
- Diane Wink's Resources for Nurses and Families http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~wink/home.html
- Joan Fleitas - Bandaides & Blackboards http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/faculty/jfleitas/bandaides/
- Advanced Practice
- Medscape - Nurses http://www.medscape.com/nurseshome
- NP Central http://www.npcentral.net/
- Education/Universities
- HealthWeb - Nursing (Choose Education section) http://healthweb.org/browse.cfm?subjectid=60
- Skilled Nursing Resource Site for Web-based Continuing Education http://www.love2learn.com/nureval.htm
- Accrediting organizations
- National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission http://www.nlnac.org
- Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Accreditation/
- American Nurses Credentialing Center http://www.ana.org/ancc/
- Nursing Publishers
- Lippincott NursingCenter http://www.nursingcenter.com/ (includes content formerly onSpringNet)
- RN web http://www.rnweb.com/rnweb/
- Nursing Spectrum http://www.nursingspectrum.com/
- Nursing Organizations
- ANA NursingWorld http://www.nursingworld.org/
- Discover Nursing campaign http://www.discovernursing.com
- American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN) http://www.aacn.org/
- AMIA Nursing Working Group http://www.amia.org/working/ni/main.html
- AORN http://www.aorn.org
- Oncology Nursing Society http://www.ons.org
- EBP Resource Center http://onsopcontent.ons.org/toolkits/evidence/index.shtml
- Nursing Research
- National Institute for Nursing Research (NINR) http://www.nih.gov/ninr/
- Nursing Theories Page http://www.sandiego.edu/academics/nursing/theory/
- QualPage http://www.qualitativeresearch.uga.edu/QualPage/
- Royal Windsor Society for Nursing Research http://www.research-nurses.com/
- Research in progress
- Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library http://www.nursinglibrary.org/
- CASN Nursing Research Database http://www.causn.org/Databases/nursing_research_database.htm
- Canadian-International Nurse Researcher Database http://www.causn.org/Databases/international_nurse_researcher_database.htm
- Clinical Trials - http://clinicaltrials.gov/
- Statistical Resources
- HRSA Bureau of Health Professions - Division of Nursing http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/nursing/
- National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses - http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/healthworkforce/reports/rnsurvey/
- Interagency Collaborative on Nursing Statistics (ICONS) http://www.iconsdata.org
- Statistical Resources, Health Services Information Center, University of Washington http://depts.washington.edu/hsic/stats/index.shtml
- Nursing Discussion Forums http://nursing.buffalo.edu/mccartny/nursing_discussion_forums.html
Databases & search tools
- Distinguishing Scholarly Journals from Other Periodicals http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/skill20.html
- Searching the Nursing Literature http://class.kent.edu/public/kent365/index.html
- National Library of Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
- National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) http://www.nnlm.gov/
- MEDLINE/PubMed http://www.pubmed.gov
- MEDLINE Fact Sheet - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/medline.html
- Cinahl Information Systems, Inc. http://www.cinahl.com/
- MEDLINE and CINAHL Indexing practices with Search planner
- Nursing journals and full text databases
- Key and Electronic Nursing Journals 2002 http://nahrs.library.kent.edu/resource/index.html
- ONLINE Nursing Editors http://www.nurseauthor.com/ONE/naed.htm
- Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences http://mulford.mco.edu/instr/
- Search Engine Evaluation: NAHRS Task Force Experience http://nahrs.library.kent.edu/resource/reports/searchengine.pdf
- Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/umlsmain.html
- Searching for Nursing Theory http://www.sandiego.edu/nursing/theory/CINAHL/allen.html
- "Making Sense of Subsets" from PNR Dragonfly http://nnlm.gov/pnr/news/200101/subsets.html
- Evidenced-based practice databases
- TRIP database http://www.tripdatabase.com/
- SUMsearch http://sumsearch.uthscsa.edu/
- NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/welcome.htm
- Essential nursing references http://www.nln.org/nlnjournal/nurse_res.htm
- Interagency Council on Information Resources for Nursing http://icirn.org
- PsycINFO produced by American Psychological Association http://www.apa.org
- Health News
- Health and Medicine in the News http://www.biomed.lib.umn.edu/hmed/
- Current awareness
- Medscape - Nurses http://www.medscape.com/nurseshome
- NurseLinx Newsletter http://www.nurselinx.com
- NLM Locator Plus http://locatorplus.gov
- Consumer Health Databases
- CHID - Combined Health Information Database http://chid.nih.gov/
- MEDLINEplus http://medlineplus.gov/
- healthfinder http://www.healthfinder.gov/
- State/regional/collaborative projects
- MEL Health Information Resources http://web.mel.org/viewtopic.jsp?id=13
- Healthy Wisconsin People http://www.healthywisconsin.org
- Family Village http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/ - disability resources
- ARCH: Access to Resources for Community Health http://www.mgh.harvard.edu/library/arch/arch.asp - includes links to non-English resources, http://www.mgh.harvard.edu/library/arch/nonenglish.asp
- NOAH: New York Online Access to Health http://www.noah-health.org/ - Spanish
- Health Care Information Resources….for patients, their families, friends and health care workers http://www-hsl.mcmaster.ca/tomflem/top.html (Tom Flemming, McMaster; includes Canadian & French resources)
- PDQ Cancer information summaries http://www.nci.nih.gov/cancer_information/pdq/
- Tutorials & Guides
- CINAHL Tutorial (EBSCO) http://www.library.health.ufl.edu/help/CINAHL/
- Searching Bibliographic Databases for Nursing Theory http://www.sandiego.edu/academics/nursing/theory/CINAHL/allen.html
- Searching the Nursing Literature (tutorial with guest access) http://class.kent.edu/public/kent365/index.html
- Nursing Resources: A Self-Paced Tutorial and Refresher (NYU) http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/info/instruct/Nursing/index.htm
- SUNY Buffalo Tutorials for PDAs, Biomedical Databases, and Library Research Techniques: A Guide to the Resources (links) http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/hsl/resources/guides/tutorials.html
- Guide to Tests and Measurement Instruments (University of Michigan Taubman Medical Library) http://www.lib.umich.edu/taubman/info/testsandmeasurement.htm
- Tests and Measures in the Social Sciences: Tests available in compilation volumes. Helen Hough, University of Texas in Arlington http://libraries.uta.edu/helen/test&meas/testmainframe.htm
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