Check out the CINAHL database for scholarly nursing and allied health articles. This is the best first place to come for a nursing assignment requiring scholarly sources.
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AccessMedicineThis link opens in a new windowAccessMedicine from McGraw-Hill provides access to more than 60 medical titles, including the Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment series, Tintinalli’s emergency medicine text, and Goodman & Gilman’s pharmacology text. Also includes updated content, images and illustrations, interactive self-assessments, videos, audio files, board review practice questions, drug information, diagnostic tests, guidelines, quick answers, case files, patient education, clerkship materials, and a comprehensive search platform. Users are able to view from and download content to a mobile device.
Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination This link opens in a new windowFeaturing completely new content and new clinical skills videos, Bates’ Visual Guide delivers head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques for the (Advanced) Assessment or Introduction to Clinical Medicine course. The site features more than 8 hours of video content.
CINAHL with Full TextThis link opens in a new windowCINAHL with Full Text provides nearly full text for nearly 580 of the top nursing and allied health journals available and covers a wide range of topics including nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
Cochrane LibraryThis link opens in a new windowThe Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, and a seventh database that provides information about Cochrane groups.
Access to Cochrane Library is now provided through MyLMU "academics", "library" and look for Cochrane Library under "Quick Links".
Epocrates RxThis link opens in a new windowOne must register and create your own login for this resource. Includes information on diseases, drugs, and drug interactions. Also includes helpful tables.
MicromedexThis link opens in a new windowMicromedex is a comprehensive medical reference on drugs, diseases, acute care, toxicology, alternative medicine, and patient education and care. It includes information on drug interactions, IV compatibility, and drug comparisons. Also includes a drug identification tool, calculators, and formularies. Disclaimer: According to license restrictions, this resource can only be used for educational and training purposes by Lincoln Memorial University students and faculty in the health sciences and is not to be used for any clinical care, emergency, or commercial purpose. Do not access this resource from a clinical setting.
ProQuest Health & Medical CollectionThis link opens in a new windowProQuest Health and Medical Complete™ combines the clinical research titles available in ProQuest Medical Library™ with hundreds of additional consumer and health administration titles. ProQuest Health and Medical Complete provides in-depth coverage from over 1,500 publications with almost 1,300 available in full text and of these, over 900 include MEDLINE® indexing.
PubMedThis link opens in a new windowPubMed comprises over 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering. PubMed also provides access to additional relevant web sites and links to the other NCBI molecular biology resources.
ScienceDirect Health & Life Sciences College EditionThis link opens in a new windowThis database includes over 1,000 full-text journals that are useful to biology, nursing, osteopathic medicine, psychology, veterinary technology, and other programs of study. Full-text content dates back to 1995.
TRIP ProThis link opens in a new windowTrip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care. Trip has been online since 1997 and in that time has developed into the internet’s premier source of evidence-based content. As well as research evidence we also allow clinicians to search across other content types including images, videos, patient information leaflets, educational courses and news.
UpToDateThis link opens in a new windowUpToDate is an evidence-based resource designed to help medical professionals make clinical decisions at the point of care. The link above will take you to an FAQ page with instructions for logging in. Note that there are different instructions for Students and Full Time Faculty and for Clinical Adjuncts and Residents.
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VisualDxThis link opens in a new windowVisualDx includes an interactive tool for finding differential diagnoses based on visual findings. Includes information on conditions with visual findings. Also includes components for international travel, child abuse recognition, terrorism recognition, oral mucosa, drug eruptions, external eye visual findings, fever and rash, smallpox vaccination, CA-MRSA, pressure ulcer staging, marine exposures, cellulitis differential diagnosis, female anogenital visual findings, male anogenital visual findings, immunocompromised conditions, nail and distal digit visual finding; and bites, stings, and infestations.
Wiley Online LibraryThis link opens in a new windowAccess nearly 900 e-journals and e-books within the Science, Technology, and Medicine collection (including Veterinary Medicine), as well as content from Education and Social Sciences.
