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Subject Definition
We believe that nursing is a practice discipline requiring the scholarly use of scientific, ethical, aesthetic, and personal ways of knowing (the Art of Nursing). Nurses use the many ways of knowing to enable persons to bring body, mind, and spirit into harmonious relationship.
Core Resources
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CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
An expanded version of the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health. Provides citations and abstracts for over 5,400 nursing journals, as well as books, conferences, software, and audiovisual material. Provides the full text for over 1,300 of those journals.
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Gale OneFile: Nursing & Allied Health This link opens in a new windowOver 6 million articles from more than 1,000 journals in nursing and related healthcare fields.
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Health Research Premium Collection This link opens in a new windowIndexing and full text of tens of millions of sources valuable for nursing and allied health, healthcare administration, psychology, public health, consumer health, and medicine broadly.
Indexing of over 60 million sources and full text of over 20 million.
Sources include scholarly journal articles, books, vidoes, dissertations and theses, newspaper articles, conference proceedings, and more. -
Ovid This link opens in a new windowFull-text of articles from 81 journals, principally from Ovid's Nursing Collections I and II, as well as some sports and exercise journals and a few others.
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UpToDate This link opens in a new windowSpecific, detailed answers to clinical questions in nursing, sports and exercise sciences, communication disorders, and psychology. Original content that is written, reviewed and continually updated by a faculty of more than 5,100 leading physicians. Content includes over 9,500 topics in 21 specialties, a drug database and drug interactions program, 135 Medical calculators, What’s New (summary of important new findings by specialty), and patient education materials.
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