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Nursing and Health Sciences - South Bend-Elkhart

Background Information: Information Centers and Reference Guides

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

REFERENCE GUIDES

General
Credo Reference a good place to start to get background information on your topic; reference articles from over 600 titles, with particular emphasis on encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and handbooks.

Medical
DSM Library  Includes the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition), the DSM-5 Handbook of Differential Diagnosis, and DSM-5 Clinical Cases.

QSEN The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) project addresses the challenge of preparing future nurses with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of the healthcare systems within which they work. 

Physicians' Desk Refference

Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary

Davis Drug Guide for Nurses

Films on Demand: Health and Medicine Videos 
Thousands of hours of streaming video on a variety of medical topics.

Articles

ARTICLE DATABASES  

EBSCO 

     CINAHL with Full Text

     Health Source: Nursing/Academic 

     Medline with Fulltext

You can search all these databases simultaneously.  
  
1. Click CHOOSE DATABASES

       

 2. Select databases, then click OK:

      

OVID NURSING JOURNALS

Federal Government Websites


GOVERNMENT WEBSITES