Nursing and Public Health: Finding Articles in Nursing

Our largest interdisciplinary database containing full-text and bibliographic content from a wide range of academic disciplines.
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Contains open-access peer-reviewed journals in fields as diverse as criminal justice, philosophy, computer science, education, the physical sciences, mathematics, engineering disciplines, psychology, and the environment.
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Full-text and abstracts for over 770 nursing & allied health journals, dating back to 1937.
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Resources for consumer-oriented health content including mainstream, complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. Also includes the Clinical Reference System, a medical dictionary, and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs.
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The academic form of Google, Scholar will search for scholarly articles and books instead of websites. This includes a large number of scholarly eJournal articles subscribed to by Murrell Library. To get full text articles, you must go to “Settings” and select Missouri Valley College in the “Library Links” the very first time you use Google Scholar on your computer. Your computer will save this information and you will not have to enter it again. Click here for a guide to setting up Google Scholar.
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Consumer health information from the National Library of Medicine.
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Indexes articles from over 4,800 journals, 1965 - present, dealing with medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, preclinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine. For articles from 1947-1965, see OldMedline.
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Indexing and Abstracting only - no full text. Over 45,000 randomized trials, systematic reviews, and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. PEDro trials are independently assessed with quality ratings to guide users to trials that are more likely to be valid and to contain sufficient information to guide clinical practice.
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A free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine.
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The Sage Health Practice and Services Collection contains 59 peer-reviewed e-Journals. Use the advanced search form and select the button for "Only content to which I have full access." Otherwise you will be shown articles that are not available for free.
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Full-text articles in physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training, sport administration, biomechanics, movement science, injury prevention, rehabilitation, sport & exercise psychology, allied health, occupational health & therapy, public health, etc.
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UpToDate contains evidence-based material for making nursing and health care decisions at the point of care. Search by disease, symptom, lab abnormality, or drug, and filter by adult or pediatric topics or inclusion of graphics. Each topic contains both basic and advanced levels. Practice guidelines contain graded recommendations using a number (the strength of the recommendation) and letter (the quality of the supporting evidence). Over 185 medical calculators, drug information, and food and drug interactions. Includes patient education briefs and Continuing Medical Education (CME). Drug information includes “Boxed Warnings,” dosing (including for special populations), generic forms, administration, labeled indications, label and off-label use, adverse reactions, warning and precautions, drug and food interactions, and reproductive and pregnancy considerations. All information cites references.

To use UpToDate, sign in with your MOVAL username and password. After being logged in, you will be prompted to create an individual account. Online video tutorials are available.
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