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Nursing Guides & Resources: Featured E-Resources

Featured E-Resources

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These materials have been selected and curated by LMU Libraries to showcase new titles, suggest readings, and provide e-resources to jumpstart your research.

Clinical Tools

Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy

Acland's Video Atlas provides narrated videos of human anatomy, offering detailed visual explorations of structures with clear explanations, valuable for students and professionals.

Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination

Bates' Visual Guide offers step-by-step video demonstrations of physical examination techniques, including history taking and inspection. It's essential for enhancing clinical skills and diagnostic accuracy.

VisualDX

VisualDx is an interactive tool with a vast image library of skin and medical conditions, aiding diagnosis through visual cues and detailed clinical information.

UpToDate

UpToDate offers evidence-based medical information across specialties, providing current, peer-reviewed content for diagnosis and treatment. It helps healthcare professionals make informed decisions and maintain high-quality patient care.

Johns Hopkins ABX Guide

Antibiotic resource provides updated, evidence-based information on treating infectious diseases, including drug choices, dosages, adverse reactions, interactions, diagnoses, pathogens, and access to medical literature with reference links.

Databases

AccessMedicine

Learn more about AccessMedicine? ➜ Jump to A ccessMedicine Guide

CINAHL

Learn more about CINAHL? ➜ Jump to CINAHL Guide

Cochrane Library

Learn more about Cochrane Library? ➜ Jump to Cochrane Library Guide

PubMed

UpToDate

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E-Books

Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge

Complementary therapies in nursing : promoting integrative care

Innovative nursing care: education and research

Dilemmas and decision making in nursing: a practice-based approach

Nursing ethics: across the curriculum and into practice

Rural nursing: concepts, theory, and practice

Varcarolis Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing - E-Book A Communication Approach to Evidence-Based Care.

Suggested Readings

2023 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report
The "National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report 2023" evaluates the performance of the U.S. healthcare system in terms of quality and disparities. It highlights improvements and ongoing challenges in healthcare access, quality, and equity, with a focus on underserved populations. The report aims to inform policy decisions and promote strategies to reduce disparities and enhance overall healthcare quality.
The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity
The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity (2021) outlines a vision for nursing, emphasizing diversity, equity, and inclusion in healthcare. It proposes transformative strategies to address social determinants of health, enhance workforce diversity, and advance nursing education to meet evolving healthcare needs.
Implementing the Brøset Violence Checklist in the ED
The emerging field of implementation science (IS) facilitates the sustainment of evidence-based practice in clinical care. This article, the second in a series on applying IS, describes how a nurse-led IS team at a multisite health system implemented the Brøset Violence Checklist—a validated, evidence-based tool to predict a patient’s potential to become violent—in the system’s adult EDs, with the aim of decreasing the rate of violence against staff. The authors discuss how they leveraged IS concepts, methods, and tools to achieve this goal.
It's better to give than receive: Nursing and community engagement
Community engagement can foster a sense of purpose and promote a culture of reciprocity. By participating in a community engagement project, students can learn to identify healthcare disparities and work collaboratively toward positive outcomes and solutions.

Test Prep

Illustrated Study Guide for the NCLEX-RN Exam (2023)

NCLEX-RN For Dummies (2020)

Developing Clinical Judgment for Practical/Vocational Nursing and the Next-Generation NCLEX-PN® Examination

Evaluation and testing in nursing education

Videos

A tribute to nurses | Carolyn Jones

What if You Became a Nurse? | Sana Goldberg

How Grief Can Enable Nurses to Endure | Hui-wen Sato

Lessons from Nursing to the World | Kathleen Bartholomew