Nursing and Allied Health: Western Nevada College Library & Media Services

Articles Databases

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Students and staff may log into library databases using their WNC NetID and password.

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Carson Campus 445-3227
Fallon Campus 423-5330
By email: refdesk@wnc.edu

CINAHL Plus Full Text provides the full text for more than 560 nursing & allied health journals. It also includes evidence-based care sheets and over 100 interactive continuing education units (CEUs) on patient care and drug administration. tutorials

Health Source: Nursing/Academic provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.

Health Source: Consumer Edition full text for nearly 300 journals in health related fields. Topics include the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.

Academic Search Premier provides extensive full-text coverage with hundreds of journals in the medical field.

Pubmed produced by the National LIbrary of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. tutorial

Pubmed Central is a free article archive from life sciences journals.

Gale Virtual Reference Library includes the full-text content from over 200 special topic encyclopedias and other reference books.

Journals

Electronic journals can be searched by selecting "Find Magazines or Newspapers by Title" from the library home page. Researchers may also get a list of e-journals available on a given topic by selecting a subject category using the same link. The following journals are available electronically on nursing.

Shelf Location (Library of Congress Classification)

All universities and community college libraries in Nevada use the Library of Congress Classification System to organize their books. Books are arranged A-Z, with each letter corresponding to a subject. To find books on this topic, go to the following areas:

Classification	Topic
QP	Physiology, including some nutrition
R	MEDICINE
RA	Public Aspects of Medicine
RB	Pathology
RC	Internal Medicine
RC86-88	First Aid
RC321-576	Neurology and Psychiatry
RC952-954	Geriatrics
RC1200-1245	Sports Medicine
RD	Surgery
RG	Gynecology and Obstetrics
RJ	Pediatrics
RM	Therapeutics. Pharmacology
RM 300-666	Drugs and their Action
RT	NURSING
RX	Homeopathy
RZ	Other systems of Medicine (chiropractic, osteopathy, mental)

Encyclopedias & Reference Books

These titles are located at the Carson City Campus library unless otherwise indicated. The term “Ready Ref” indicates the item is shelved directly behind the Reference Desk.

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
Melloni's Illustrated Medical Dictionary	READY REF R121 .D76
Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine	REF RC41 .G35
Mosby’s Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Health Professions	REF R121 .M89
Stedman’s Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Symbols	REF RC41 .G35
Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary	REF R121 .T14

Handbooks, Manuals, & Sourcebooks
Current medical diagnosis and treatment	READY REF RC71 .A14
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy also available free online at http://www.merck.com/mmpe/index.html	REF RC55 .M4

Alternative Medicine
PDR for herbal medicines	REF RS75 .P554

Nursing Study Guides
NCLEX study guides
Mosby's comprehensive review of nursing	RT55 .M6
Mosby's comprehensive review of practical nursing	RT62 .M62

Pharmacology
Drug facts and comparisons	REF RM300 .F33
Nursing drug handbook	REF RM300 .N87
Physicians’ desk reference	READY REF RS355 .P47

Psychology
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-IV	REF RC455.2 .C4 D54

Using the Library Catalog to Locate Books

WNC library books are listed in an online catalog shared by most northern Nevada academic libraries. To find in-depth materials, search the library catalog by typing in the topic you are researching. Be sure to use keywords or subjects rather than sentences.

Clicking on the links below will perform a search for WNC books in the library catalog. Sometimes these searches can take a few minutes to finish.

Alternative Medicine
Diseases - Search under specific diseases, such as, heart disease, lung cancer, etc.
Nursing assessment
Nursing Diagnosis
Nursing Care Plans
Nursing Process
Nutrition
Pharmacology

Finding Dvds and Videos on a Topic

WNC and the Univ. of Nevada, Reno dvds and videos are listed in the library catalog - just use this dvd search link, type in a nursing topic and you will get a list of titles. Students may watch WNC dvds in the library. Only faculty may borrow dvds from UNR.

Useful Web Sites on Nursing & Medicine

Favorites

Medline Plus Produced by the National Library of Medicine, this web site contains comprehensive information on medical conditions and diseases, drugs, current research, and clinical trials.

APA Style

APA Style Research Guide The WNC librarians have compiled this guide which provides examples on how to cite Internet, database, and print sources. It also includes a sample "References" page
APA Exposed (tutorial) This animated web tutorial will tell you most things you'd like to know about citing sources using the APA documentation style. Posted online by the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Sample Research Paper: APA Style You can find examples of APA in-text citations, information on how to format a paper, and instructions on compiling a list of references on this site. This page, from Diana Hacker, also has a sample research paper written in the APA style.