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Welcome to the library guide for Nursing and Allied Health. Throughout this guide you'll find links to books, databases and other resources that will help you. Questions? Feel free to contact us by using the links and information on this page.

Nursing and Allied Health Databases

CINAHL with Full Text
CINAHL with Full Text provides full text for the top nursing and allied health literature available and covers a wide range of topics including nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. This full-text resource features publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association. In addition, it provides access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, audiovisuals, book chapters and more.
Nursing & Allied Health Premium
Designed for researchers at health-care facilities as well as nursing students, this file provides full-text access to more than 280 periodicals from nursing and health-care publications. Over 270 of the indexed journals also contain images, including charts, photos, and other illustrations. Also included is access to over 800 streaming nursing and allied health videos. Produced by Medcom, these videos are from 3 to 10 minutes in length.
Gale Nursing and Allied Health
This database provides access to authoritative content including full-text titles cited in CINAHL supporting specialized care, treatment, and patient management.
Magill's Medical Guide
Magill's Medical Guide covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders.
Journals@Ovid Ovid Full Text
A collection of journals from 1950s to present covering a wide range of nursing topics. This particular collection was curated for the interests of nursing students and faculty at community colleges.
PubMed
The PubMed search system is a freely accessible online database of biomedical journal citations and abstracts created by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). It provides access to MEDLINE and PREMEDLINE. In addition, for participating journals that are indexed selectively for MEDLINE, PubMed includes all articles from that journal, not just those that are included in MEDLINE. Finally, PubMed also provides access to the molecular biology databases included in NCBI's Entrez retrieval system. Freely available site: no restrictions for access.
Films On Demand Master Academic Video Package
This collection of videos addresses a wide variety of academic areas, including the arts and humanities, sciences, criminal justice, history, and archival footage
Kanopy Academic Base Collection
The Kanopy Academic Base Collection is a video streaming solution for colleges offering a "Netflix-like" user experience and a broad selection of over 10,000 documentaries, feature films and training videos from thousands of producers.

TRIP Medical Database
A clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or patient care.

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Biomedical and Health Sciences Journals @ Billington Library
BrowZine is an online catalog of electronic journals and articles from multiple publishers, all in one website. Formatted like a virtual bookshelf of journals, BrowZine allows you to browse the contents of full volumes and easily keep up with recent publications in your field.

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Nursing Books

Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual by Linda Lee PHELPS
ISBN: 9781975198954
Publication Date: 2022-09-01
This enhanced, thoroughly revised edition leverages the nursing process to guide students through 267 comprehensive monographs for NANDA-I-approved nursing diagnoses.
Mental health in nursing: theory and practice for clinical settings
ISBN: 0729544680
Publication Date: 2025
All nurses play an important role in supporting mental health as part of holistic care provision. This book is designed to help students and novice clinicians to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes they need to care for people across a wide range of specialist and non-specialist practice settings.
Nursing Wisely by Mary Ghazarian; Michelle Acorn (Foreword by)
ISBN: 1739051319
Publication Date: 2023-08-15
Embark on a journey of self-discovery with Nursing WISELY and unlock your true potential.
Creative Approaches to Wellbeing by Karen Gray (Editor); Victoria Tischler (Editor)
ISBN: 1526172585
Publication Date: 2024-05-28
A compilation of case studies illustrating how arts, culture and other community assets were used by individuals and communities to cope and develop resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic, demonstrating valuable lessons that might help us develop resilience in similar future crises.
Health T Level: Supporting the Adult Nursing Team : Occupational Specialism
ISBN: 1036005666
Publication Date: 2024
Covering all the units for the Adult Nursing specialism, this accessible and engaging textbook will equip you with a confident understanding of the knowledge and skills you need to be successful in this qualification.
Challenging Assumptions Around Dementia by Rosalie Ashworth; Masood Qureshi; Martin Robertson; David Ross; Alyson Hill; Fred S. Wilson; Sue Fyvel; Willy Gilder; Stuart Hay; Winnie Henry; Agnes Houston; Myra Lamont; Chris Maddocks
ISBN: 9783031272226
Publication Date: 2023-09-01
This open access book explores the expectations surrounding dementia, what it 'looks like' and how people have been treated by others.
Ethics & issues in contemporary nursing
ISBN: 0443105308
Publication Date: 2025
Key topics throughout explore advocacy and rights, diversity, nurse burnout, mass casualty events, social media, violence in the workplace, medication error prevention, opioid and other substance use, HIPAA, and healthcare reform.
Symptom Management Guidelines for Oncology Nursing by Anne Katz
ISBN: 0826185274
Publication Date: 2024-03-28
Uses a systems-based approach to for rapid access to symptoms commonly experienced during and after treatment Written in an easy-to-read format for use in daily practice, this evidence-based resource delivers the most current, comprehensive clinical guidelines for key pharmaceutical and supportive interventions with patients suffering from cancer.