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College of Nursing Library Resources: Graduate

Access to library resources for UK's College of Nursing

Graduate Nursing Resources

  • CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) Complete
    • Available through UK Libraries
    Best Bet
    Provides indexing of the top nursing and allied health literature available, plus the full text for nearly 1,400 journals indexed in CINAHL
  • ClinicalKey Nursing
    • Available through UK Libraries
    Best Bet
    ClinicalKey for Nursing offers evidence-based content adapted to a nurse’s workflow, schedule and needs, with features designed to support better decisions at the point of care. NOTE: Requires registration/login with a UKY email address to download PDFs of books and/or book chapters.
  • PubMed (University of Kentucky)
    • Available through UK Libraries
    Best Bet Featured
    Provides abstracts to articles in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, allied health, and the pre-clinical sciences. Includes biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Also includes links to articles available through UK Libraries' subscriptions.
  • BioDigital Human
    • Available through UK Libraries
    Best Bet
    BioDigital Human is an interactive 3D software platform for visualizing anatomy, disease, and treatment. To access, click "Links" in the blue toolbar at top and select BioDigital from that list. You can also find more information about setting up your BioDigital Human Account.
  • AccessMedicine
    • Available through UK Libraries
    Provides access to current medical textbooks, images, drug information, interactive self-assessment, case files, time-saving diagnostic and point-of-care tools, a comprehensive search platform, and the ability to view from and download content to a mobile device.
  • AgeLine
    • Available through UK Libraries
    Indexing of literature focusing on the population aged 50+ and issues of aging. Includes social gerontology and aging-related content from the health sciences, psychology, sociology, social work, economics, and public policy.
  • AORN eGuidelines+ New
    AORN eGuidelines+ is a collection of evidence-based perioperative guidelines for the perioperative RN. Each AORN guideline includes recommendations intended to be achievable and to represent what is believed to be an optimal level of perioperative patient care and workplace safety. Each guideline contains recommendations that are broad statements to be used to guide the development of policies, procedures, and criteria for measuring individual competency in a variety of practice settings where operative and other invasive procedures are performed.
  • BoardVitals
    • Available through UK Libraries
    BoardVitals offers review questions and explanations for the exams for AANP Family Nurse Practitioner, AACN Adult-Gerontology Acute Care NP, ANCC Adult-Gerontology Acute Care NP, ANCC Family Nurse Practitioner, Adult-Gerontology Primary Care NP, NAPLEX, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner-Acute Care, Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner, and Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. A free personal account must be created to use this product. A current UK email address (one ending in.uky.edu) must be used in setting up an account.
  • ClinicalKey
    • Available through UK Libraries
    A point-of-care clinical information service for physicians and other healthcare professionals. It provides access to a unique combination of medical reference books, medical journals, drug information, and practice guidelines. NOTE: ClinicalKey requires registration/login with a UKY email address to download PDFs of books and/or book chapters.
  • Cochrane Library
    • Available through UK Libraries
    Collection of databases containing independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Includes full-text PDF versions of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews for both complete reviews and protocols.
  • Consumer Health Complete
    • Available through UK Libraries
    Focused on patient information needs. Covers health and wellness from mainstream medicine to complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine.
  • DITKI
    DITKI, (formerly Draw it to Know it) was created by Dr. Adam Fisch, a practicing neurologist who developed the deep learning methodology as a resident as a way to master vast amounts of medical science. UK has access to USMLE/COMLEX Step 1 and A&P for Nurses.
  • DSM-5 (PsychiatryOnline)
    • Available through UK Libraries
    Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition is the guidebook used by clinicians and researchers to diagnose and classify mental disorders.
  • Education Database (ProQuest)
    • Available through UK Libraries
    Indexing and abstracting access to over 900 educational publications, including more than 600 of the titles in full-text. Subject coverage includes: adult education, elementary education, higher education, home schooling, secondary education, special needs education, teacher education.
  • Embase
    • Available through UK Libraries
    Embase is a biomedical and pharmacological database that enables tracking and retrieval of drug information in the published literature.
  • Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
    • Available through UK Libraries
    Provides access to information on measurement instruments (i.e. questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, codes schemes/manuals, rating scales, and tests) in health fields, psychosocial sciences, and organizational behavior.
  • Health Source: Consumer Edition
    • Available through UK Libraries
    Provides access to nearly 80 full-text, consumer health magazines, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Fit Pregnancy, Harvard Health Letter, HealthFacts, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness,Prevention, and Vegetarian Times.
  • healthfinder
    This consumer-oriented site has resources on a wide range of health topics selected from over 1,600 government and non-profit organizations to bring you the best, most reliable health information on the Internet.
  • Human Anatomy Atlas (Visible Body from Ovid)
    • Available through UK Libraries
    3D interactive anatomy visualization and education tool with thousands of interactive anatomical structures.
  • Johns Hopkins ABX Guide New
    The Johns Hopkins ABX Guide is a comprehensive web and mobile resource that delivers up-to-date, authoritative information on infectious diseases, drugs, and pathogens written by the experts at Johns Hopkins Medicine.
  • JoVE: Journal of Visualized Experiments
    • Available through UK Libraries
    JoVE produces and provides science videos aimed at improving scientific research.
  • Lexidrug (formerly Lexicomp)
    • Available through UK Libraries
    An online clinical database that includes drug information, interactions, drug identification, calculators, drug comparisons, IV compatibility, patient education, formulary service, and toxicology information. NOTE: Access on campus restricted to computers located within the UK Medical Center. Off campus VPN access restricted to University of Kentucky College Medical Center faculty, students, and staff.
  • LWW Health Library: Premium Basic Sciences
    • Available through UK Libraries
    Access to textbooks on core medical science topics, including anatomy, microbiology, pathology, physiology, and more
  • MedlinePlus
    MedlinePlus is the consumer health website produced by the National Library of Medicine. It provides access to high quality and authoritative information on diseases, drugs, clinical trials, and other consumer health topics.
  • Mental Measurements Yearbook
    • Available through UK Libraries
    Produced by the Buros Institute, contains full-text information about and reviews of English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks. Please note: Limited to four simultaneous users.
  • PsychiatryOnline and Psychiatry Legacy Collection
    • Available through UK Libraries
    Online portal featuring the publication of the American Psychiatric Association including the DSM-5, electronic textbooks, APA guidelines, and access to the American Psychiatric Association journals from their inception.
  • PsycINFO
    • Available through UK Libraries
    Provides access to abstracts, citations, articles, books, and dissertations in the psychological, social, and behavioral sciences. Includes all American Psychological Association journals.
  • PubMed (NLM)
    Provides free access to the National Library of Medicine (NLM)'s database of indexed citations, MEDLINE. Along with MEDLINE, PubMed also provides access to PubMedCentral, NCBI Bookshelf, OLDMEDLINE (Pre-1966 citations), and In-Process Citations.
  • PubMed Central
    PubMed Central is a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
  • SAGE Research Methods
    • Available through UK Libraries
    SAGE Research Methods is a methods library with books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos across the social sciences.
  • Science Citation Index Expanded
    • Available through UK Libraries
    Provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 8,600 scholarly science and technical journals covering more than 150 disciplines. This index is part of Web of Science Core Collection.
  • Scopus
    • Available through UK Libraries
    Scopus is an abstracting and citation database of peer-reviewed literature that contains over 22,000 titles from more than 5,000 publishers around the world, covering the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts & humanities. Scopus is a citation index which helps in determining the impact of articles and journals by highlighting which titles are most cited within a field.
  • Sigma Repository
    Repository solely dedicated to sharing works created by nurses. It is an open-access digital academic and clinical focused service that freely collects, preserves, and disseminates full-text nursing research, educational, and evidence-based practice materials in a variety of formats and item types. The repository is a resource of Sigma Theta Tau International (Sigma).
  • TDS Health
    • Available through UK Libraries
    Cross-searchable healthcare reference that integrates core titles with evidence-based resources and innovative tools for clinicians. NOTE: Maximum number of simultaneous users is 7.
  • TRIP (Turning Research into Practice)
    Attempt to bring together 'evidence-based' healthcare resources available on the Internet. It contains nearly 29,000 links from approximately 75 sources. The citations are obtained from peer-reviewed journals and 'eTextbooks.'
  • UpToDate
    • Available through UK Libraries
    Clinical resource specifically created to assist with diagnosis and treatment. UpToDate is accessible on and off-campus. It is also available for clinicians via the electronic medical record system. To setup on a mobile devices visit the Accounts to Setup.
  • Web of Science Core Collection
    • Available through UK Libraries
    Featured
    Web of Science Core Collection indexes primary journals and article citations in several databases spanning a wide range of disciplines.
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Evidence-based practice (EBP) has been defined as “a problem-solving approach to the delivery of health care that integrates best evidence from studies and patient care data with clinician expertise and patient preferences and values”

  • Melnyk B.M., Fineout-Overholt E., Stillwell S.B., and Williamson K.M.: Evidence-based practice: step by step. The seven steps of evidence-based practice: following this progressive, sequential approach will lead to improved health care and patient outcomes. Am. J. Nurs 2010; 110: pp. 51-53.

 

Flow diagram through the 5 As of EBM

Level I: Evidence from a systematic review or meta-analysis of all relevant randomized controlled trials (RCTs)
Level II: Evidence from well-designed RCTs
Level III: Evidence from well-designed controlled trials without randomization
Level IV: Evidence from well-designed case-control and cohort studies
Level V: Evidence from systematic reviews of descriptive and qualitative studies
Level VI: Evidence from single descriptive or qualitative studies
Level VII: Evidence from the opinion of authorities and/or reports of expert committees

[Source: Melnyk, B.M. &  Fineout-Overholt, E. (2011). Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare: A Guide To Best Practice (2nd ed.). Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, p. 12]

An important step in writing a paper is showing the strength and rationale of the evidence you chosen. The following document discusses the reasoning, grading, and creation of a "Table of Evidence." While tables of evidence can differ, the examples given in this article are a great starting point.

Suggested E-Book

NURS 764 (Systematic Reviews of the Literature)

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Using MeSH Terms in PubMed

CINAHL Subject Headings

Learn Time Saving Tips & Tricks

How to Find an Ebook

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Logo for the MCL Research Workshop Series

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