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Nursing & Allied Health Resources

Jumpstart your research with NursingHealth or Radiology Quickstart guides.

We also suggest seaching the library catalogs for books, DVDs ebooks and other materials in our libraries.  Recommended internet resources are listed below.  

Online Databases

EBSCO Health Resources: Combination of Ebsco's Nursing/Academic edition, AltHealth Watch and HealthSource Consumer edition. Databases contain magazine, journals and books. Search help.

Nursing & Allied Health Journals: Contains healthcare information, much in full text, covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, consumer health, and more.

Health Reference: Good source for images it also contains full-text information about conditions and diseases, mental health, health and wellness, and body systems and medical tests.

Consumer Health Complete: Combination of full text evidence based reports, books, alternative treatment sources, videos and diagrams. Search help.

Gale Nursing Resource Center: Database is designed for nursing students, it brings together disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams. Search results are returned in tabs that correspond to steps in the nursing process. Search help.

Nursing Made Incredibly Easy: This journal is a good source of information for nursing students. Choose 'search riverland nursing journals' to begin. Search help.

American Journal of Nursing : This journal is indexed in Ebsco Health Resources. Choose 'search Riverland nursing journals' to begin. Search help. 

Current Issues in Health: Database of full text articles covering a variety of current health related issues.

Lexis/Nexis MedicalThis database contains Medline abstracts.

Riverland Electronic Collection: Complete list of our entire electronic collections.

Library Catalogs & Online Books

Riverland Catalog:  Books, ebooks and nonprint materials in our libraries.  Search help.

MNPALS Catalog:  Books and other library materials available through interlibrary loan.

Sex & Society: Encyclopedic format of articles, graphics and photographs.

Worldcat (Find It in a Library): This catalog is helpful for creating citations and as a source for materials owned by libraries worldwide.

Netlibrary: This site will go directly to electronic books owned by Riverland.

Encyclopedia BritannicaThe academic edition of this popular encylopedia also has a dictionary and thesaurus.  Search results have links to the Ebsco database citations. Search help

Google Books:  Google has some full text content.  Click on the "Find in a library" link to check Riverland's collection for a paper copy.

Internet Resources
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Mayo Clinic
National Library of Medicine
Pubmed
Science.gov Health and Medicine

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