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 and OPERATING ROOMS |
| 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) |
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.
| Handbooks, Manuals, & Sourcebooks: Surgical Technology | |
| Alexander's Care of the Patient in Surgery | REF RD32.3 .A43 |
| American Surgery: An Illustrated History | REF RD27.3 U6 R87 |
| Current surgical diagnosis and treatment | REF RD31 .C89 |
| History of Surgery | RD19 E45 |
| Instrumentation for the Operating Room: A Photographic Manual | REF RD71 .B76 |
Pocket Guide to the Operating Room |
REF RD32.3 .G65 |
| Standards, recommended practices, and guidelines. Association of Operating Room Nurses. | REF RD99 .A1 |
| Surgical Mayo Setups | REF RD37 A455 |
| Pharmacology | |
| Drug Facts and Comparisons | REF RM300 .F33 |
| Nursing drug handbook | REF RM300 .N87 |
| Physicians’ desk reference | READY REF RS355 .P47 |
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.
CINAHL Plus Full Text provides the full text for more than 560 nursing & allied health journals.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
Health Source: Consumer Edition full text for nearly 300 journals in health related fields.
Academic Search Premier provides extensive full-text coverage with hundreds of journals in the medical field.
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.
Pubmed produced by the National LIbrary of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations. tutorial
Pubmed Central is a free article archive from life sciences 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 surgery, surgical technology, and nursing.
Print subscriptions: Surgical Technologist
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