Nursing
Resources for Nursing
Nursing definitions, facts, figures and overviews
- Dictionaries help you to define your keywords
- Encyclopedias help you to get an overview of your topic and provide more information than a dictionary
- Handbooks and manuals provide figures and facts
Online dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks
Print dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks
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Australian nurses dictionary
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610.7303/6
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Mosby's medical, nursing & allied health dictionary
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610.3/22
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Lippincott's nursing drug guide
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615/15
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To find additional reference items
- Search the Library Catalogue
- Select advanced keyword search
- Combine a broad keyword AND the word dictionar**
nursing AND dictionar**
drugs AND handbook*
medicine AND dictionaries
- To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol **
e.g. medicin** will retrieve medicine, medicines, medicinal
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Nursing books and more
Search the Library Catalogue to find books, videos, CDs
- Select title search
- Type in the exact title
- Check the location, call number and status boxes to find the item in the Library collection
If you don't have an exact title OR only have a topic area
- Select advanced keyword search
- Type in keywords from your topic
- Combine your keywords with AND to find catalogue records that contain all of your keywords
e.g. drugs AND nursing
- To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol **
e.g. nurs** will retrieve nurs, nursing, nurses
Catalogue search tips:
- Too many hits? Add another keyword e.g. drugs AND nursing AND Australia
OR
Use the limit functions in advanced keyword search e.g. limit by publication date, format, location
- Found a useful title? Click on the subject headings to find similar material
- Studying at a different UOW campus? Use an advanced keyword search and limit by location
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Nursing journal articles
Search a database to find journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and research reports
Complete list of Health & Behavioural Sciences databases
Found a useful reference?
Some databases do not provide the fulltext of the article. To locate these articles, you will need to search the catalogue to determine if the Library holds the journal title(s) either in print or electronically on another database.
Database search tips:
- Break your topic into keywords and/or phrases. The search strategy worksheet will help you
- Consider alternative keywords or spelling variations
- To narrow your search combine your keywords with AND to find records that contain all your keywords
e.g. cancer AND statistics
- To broaden your search combine your keywords with OR to find records that contain either of your keywords
e.g. cancer OR neoplasm
- Use truncation to retrieve variations of your keyword.
e.g. medic* retrieves medicine, medicines, medicinal.
- Found a useful reference? Use the subject headings to find similar material
- Use library database tips or the database help screens for tips on how to search
More information: Finding Journal Articles Tutorial
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Nursing Internet sites
It is important to critically evaluate all information found on the Web.
Try the following sites as a starting point.
Subject links
Legal issues in nursing - Australia
- Health System and the Law
Produced by the Australasian Legal Information Institute (a joint facility of UTS and UNSW) and managed by law academics. A good source for statues and regulations relating to health care.
- New South Wales legislation home page
A searchable site for NSW legislation relating to health care
- Complaints handling within NSW Health (NSW Legislative Council 2004)
Examined complaints handling procedures within NSW Health, in particular the culture of learning and the willingness to share information about errors and the failure of systems; and an assessment of whether the system encourages open and active discussion and improvement in clinical care
Nursing Research
- Nursing research
A collection of sites relating to research in nursing (University of Buffalo)
Nursing Reports
Developmental Disabilities
Mental Health
Midwifery
Drugs and alcohol
South Eastern Sydney/Illawarra Area Health Service
Search engines
Search engines create databases using computer programs called 'spiders', 'robots' or 'crawlers' that trawl the web and other Internet sites and return results to the database.
Try these first:
Directories
Directories organise Internet resources by subject. The information provided in directories is created, arranged and maintained by people rather than machines.
- HealthInsite (Australian)
Aims to improve the health of Australians by providing easy access to quality information about human health. An Australian Government initiative.
- Healthfinder
US Department of Health and Human Services consumer information web site
- WWW Virtual Library
Links to other virtual libraries
UOW sites
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