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Nursing
Subject guide
This NSI Libraries online subject guide provides links to information available on the web. Some resources require a DET username and password. Don’t know your DET username and password? Contact your College Student Administration or your teacher.
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Associations & organisations
Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council (ANMC)
Australian Nursing Federation
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
Joanna Briggs Institute
Is an Australian-based international not-for-profit research and development organisation specialising in evidence-based resources for healthcare professionals in nursing, midwifery, medicine, and allied health.
National Library of Medicine
National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the US National Institute of Health (NIH)
Links
These sites contain comprehensive link collections and resources on nursing and related topics.
Nursing
Health and community services
TAFE Studylinks
Health & aged care services
North Coast Institute's web links
Nursing
Bremer Institute of TAFE's subject links
General information & directories
Bandolier Knowledge Library - Evidence-based health care (UK)
Doctors’ reference site (Australia)
History of nursing
Flinders University SA
Medline Plus (US)
Provides credible health info, medical resources, interactive tutorials, surgery videos & more.
Hardin MD (Hardin Meta Directory)
Provides a high quality "directory of directories" for health and medicine.
Supersearchers on health and medicine (US)
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Controlled vocabulary
CINAHL headings are available via CINAHL database.
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings)
Medical search engines
healthBASE (Beta) - Causes, treatments & complications of health conditions
HONselect - Medical terms & definitions
MedHunt - Medical search engine
MedNets - Medical search engine and health portal
SearchMedica - Medical search engine
Web4Health - Psychology/psychiatry
Government information
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
National agency
for health and welfare statistics and information.
Dementia resource guide
Department of Health and Aging (Australia)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
NSW Health
Lawlink NSW
Standards, legislation and statistics
The following standards and statutes are availabilities via the ANMC publications website:
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Codes of Ethics and Professional Conduct
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National Competency Standards
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Principles of Assessment for National Competency Standards
Competency standards for nurses
Australian Nursing Federation
Australian Bureau of Statistics - Health theme Page
Statistics relating to health in Australia
Legal Research Links
Compiled by the High Court of Australia provides access to resources such as Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) and the Australian legal information gateway WebLaw which includes the category Health law.
Nurses and Midwives Board (NSW) - Legislation
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eJournals, eBooks & other eResources |
eJournals
Freely available journals
Free medical journals
Nursing Research
A directory of free full-text nursing research and review articles
Public Library of Science
This site lists open access resources such as BioMed Central and Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) which provide you access to free online journals.
EBSCOhost
Click the link of one of the selected journals or databases. Log in using your DET Username and password.
ANZRC
• Australian nursing journal
• Australian journal of medical herbalism
• Australian journal of physiotherapy
• Journal of the Australasian Rehabilitation
Nurses' Association (JARNA)
• Journal of the Australian Traditional-Medicine
Society
CINAHL
• AAOHN journal (Occupational health nursing)
• Australian journal of advanced nursing
• Australian & NZ journal of mental health nursing
• Critical care nursing
• Ethnicity & health
• Nursing history review
• Nursing monograph
• Occupational health
• Neonatal, paediatric & child health
• Nursing ethics
Gale Cengage Learning
Click the link of the database or one of the selected journals. Log in using your DET Username and password.
Gale databases
• Australian nursing journal
• Cancer nursing practice
• Nursing economics
• Nursing management (Harrow)
• Nursing standard
• Pediatric nursing |
eBooks
FA Davis (Nursing eBooks)
Log in to FA Davis using your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of your username. Once you have logged into the database, click on Browse catalogue to get the list of available eBooks, e.g.
• ECG notes: interpretation and management
• Nurse's fast facts: your quick source for core clinical content
• Nursing care plans: guidelines for individualizing client care
across the life span
• PsychNotes: clinical pocket guide
• Tabers cyclopedic medical dictionary
NetLibrary
Click the link of any of the examples and then click on URL. Log in using your DET Username and password.
• Nursing theories and nursing practice
• The manager's guide to health & safety at work
Free eBook
eReference
Oxford Reference Online
From home, log in using your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of your username. Once you have logged into the database, click on Subjects & Books and go to Medicine.
• A dictionary of nursing
• An A-Z of medicinal drugs
• The Oxford companion to medicine
Facts on File (Health Reference Centre)
Once you have logged into the collection using your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of your username, select the Health Reference Centre from the list of databases. Contains also almost 600 videos.
Online videos
TVNews
Log in to TVNews or to the following Catalyst videos using your DET username and password.
Free online videos
Topics provided range from abdominal aneurism to yeast infection.
Training toolboxes
A healthy start ( Work effectively in the health industry)
Help from within: a conference for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers
Infection control
Click on 'URL' at the end of the description to access these training packages which contain tutorials, quizzes and resources for your course. From home, log in using your DET username and password. You can view or download these resources. CD-ROMs of the packages may be available at your TAFE library.
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Databases covering nursing subjects
Here is a selection of subject specific databases provided. For the full list of general databases and regarding instructions go to the eResources Portal.
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Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) website. Includes statistics and some analysis of information from the National Census and other sources. Allows for the creation of local area profiles.
http://www.abs.gov.au/
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Freely available
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Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre - EBSCO's searchable database provides full text, and index access to many local and international magazines, newspapers and reference books. Most general subjects are covered, including nursing and allied health. |
DET username and password required. |
CINAHL
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CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 750 journals. With more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937, CINAHL Plus is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health. |
DET username and password required. |
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Our collection of FA Davis eBooks (currently 84 eBooks) provides 24/7 online access to medical, nursing, and health profession texts and reference resources for students, nurses, and health professionals. Our collection also includes eBooks on anatomy & physiology, athletics, physical and occupational therapy. Access the title list here.
Please note: The access will time out if you are not actively using the collection but latest after 60 min. To access the collection again close the window and click the link to FA Davis in the subject guide. |
Students: use your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of the username (e.g. EDU\john.smith).
Staff: use your network username and password with NSI\ in front of the username (NSI\jsmith). |
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The Facts on File is a set of online reference databases. The Health Reference Centre database contains articles, illustrations and videos relating to health topics.
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Students: use your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of the username (e.g. EDU\john.smith).
Staff: use your network username and password with NSI\ in front of the username (NSI\jsmith). |
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Gale databases provide access to periodical and news information on a diverse set of topics. The sub-collection General OneFile includes over 6,300 full-text titles and 400 newspaper services (a total of more than 11,000 titles). Also included in the subscription is the 'General Reference Centre Gold'. |
DET username and password required. |
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Australian gateway to up-to-date and quality assessed information on important health topics such as diabetes, cancer, mental health and asthma. This service is funded by the Department for Health and Aging.
http://www.healthinsite.gov.au/
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Freely available |
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INFOMINE is a comprehensive virtual library and reference tool for academic and scholarly internet resources, including websites,
databases, electronic journals, bulletin boards, listservs, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and other types of information. Includes nursing and allied health topics.
http://infomine.ucr.edu/
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Freely available |
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National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) provides current online books at
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=books
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Freely available |
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POPLINE (POPulation information onLINE), the world's largest database on reproductive health, provides nearly 360,000 citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues. It has numerous special features including links to free, full text documents.
http://db.jhuccp.org/ics-wpd/popweb/
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Freely available |
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ProQuest Central provides access to a set of databases containing more than 125 billion digital pages including Nursing and Allied Health Source, Pharmaceutical News Index, Family Health & Health and Medical Complete.
Now included in Nursing & Allied Health Source:
- CultureVision - addresses cultural differences in patient care. Its current content covers reports on over 30 ethnicities and 11 religions.
- MedCom Video Training Programs Collection - a resource of video clips covering assessment, procedure, prevention, and other nursing topics.
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DET username and password required. |
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PubMed Central (PMC), the digital archive of U.S. National Library of Medicine provides full-text access to biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pmc
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Freely available |
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TVNews indexes and abstracts Australian news items, current affairs and documentaries from free-to-air networks since 2007. You can download video content straight to your desktop or flash drive. Most programs are available the next working day. Coverage includes: Australian story, Behind the news, 60 minutes, Four corners, Lateline, Catalyst and all the major news broadcasts. |
DET username and password required. |
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Library catalogues
The NSW TAFE Library catalogue lists all the resources held in NSW TAFE libraries. You can search by keyword, author, title and subject and also limit searches to specific types of materials and specific college libraries. The catalogue has links to, and the addresses and contact details of, all individual NSW TAFE Libraries.
Subject headings
Catalogue links to some nursing subjects and availability through NSI Libraries are listed below. Please note: the search results are limited to items available in NSI Libraries. Do a new search if you want to find items held by your local library or to get results for all TAFE NSW Libraries.
Macquarie University Library
Macquarie University Library has an extensive collection of resources in the nursing area. NSI has a reciprocal borrower's agreement with Macquarie University ($44 per calendar year). Please ask your NSI library staff for details on how to access this service.
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Last updated: 04.02.2010
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