Nursing & Allied Health

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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCOhost)
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 520 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 550 journals. This resource also includes the text of Stedman's Medical Dictionary, which provides definitions of terms in genetics, oncology, pediatrics, pulmonology, emergency medicine, bacteriology, and laboratory medicine.

CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
An index of virtually all English-language nursing journals, publications from the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing, and primary journals from allied health disciplines.

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | More Cochrane databases ...
The CDSR is database of reviews which identify an intervention for a specific disease or other problem in health care, and determine whether this intervention works. To do this, authors locate, appraise and synthesize evidence from as many relevant scientific studies as possible. They summarize conclusions about effectiveness, and provide a unique collation of the known evidence on a given topic, so that others can easily review the primary studies for any intervention. The CDSR is one of six Cochrane Collection databases.

Films on Demand
View over 5,000 educational titles in dozens of subject areas.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off-campus.
  • Full video

Health Source: Consumer Edition (EBSCOhost)
Health Source: Consumer Edition offers you authoritative information on health-related questions. With this consumer health database, you can find a remedy for sunburn, discover healthy nutritional guidelines, or search for the latest treatments for cancer. The content of Health Source: Consumer Edition is also enhanced with several health books published by the People's Medical Society. With this database you can search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 160 journals including the British Medical Journal and The Lancet, as well as abstracts and indexing for over 170 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications.

International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA)
IPA provides information on all phases of the development and use of drugs and on professional pharmaceutical practice. The scope of the database ranges from the clinical, practical, and theoretical to the economic and scientific aspects of the literature. IPA indexes approximately 750 journals.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff.
  • Index only. Some records have links to full-text articles on EBSCO Online or the journal publisher's web site.
  • Coverage: 1970 - present
LWW Nursing and Health Professions Premier Journals (Ovid)
Browse the full text of over 60 key nursing and health professional journals.
  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff. 
  • Full text

MEDLINE with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
MEDLINE indexes journals in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, and veterinary medicine. It also covers research on the health care system and the preclinical sciences. MEDLINE contains citations and abstracts from approximately 5,200 current biomedical journals published in the US and 70 foreign countries.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff. 
  • Full text of 1,200+ journals

More MEDLINE providers

Search MEDLINE using any of these database providers:
  • OVID (SWOSU students and employees only)
  • PubMed (no access restrictions)
  • FirstSearch (SWOSU students and employees only)

MEDLINE Plus
Medline Plus has patient-oriented information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 650 diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials. MedlinePlus is updated daily. There is no advertising on this site, nor does MedlinePlus endorse any company or product.

  • Access restrictions: None
  • Index and full-text.

NLM Gateway
"One-step" searching of many National Library of Medicine resources, including MEDLINE, PREMEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATOR Plus, AIDS Meetings, HSR Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINE Plus, and DIRLINE.

  • Access restrictions: None
  • Coverage: Varies by database

National Guideline Clearinghouse
A comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents, created under the guidance of the US DHHS. NGC offers Syntheses of selected guidelines that cover similar topic areas, and Expert Commentary on issues of interest and importance to the clinical guideline community.

Nursing Reference Center
NRC is a reference tool designed to provide relevant clinical resources to nurses and other health care professionals directly at the point-of-care. This database offers staff nurses, nurse administrators, nursing students, and nursing faculty the best available and most recent clinical evidence from thousands of full-text documents. This database provides in-depth information on conditions and diseases, patient education resources, drug information, continuing education, lab and diagnosis detail, best practice guidelines, and much more.

Ovid Core Biomedical and ADIS Journals
Browse 42 full-text biomedical journals, including The Annals of Internal Medicine, Drugs, JAMA, and Science.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students and employees.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text (EBSCOhost)  
SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains over 650,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800. The content also consists of multi-disciplinary, international references from journal and magazine articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and more.

  • Maximum number of simultaneous users: 1
  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.

Wired.MD
Wired.MD provides online videos and full-text materials that are useful for patient education and, for the healthcare student, developing better understanding of common medical procedures and the treatment of many common disorders and diseases.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off-campus.

SWOSU LibGuide for Nursing and Allied Health
A directory of useful nursing and healthcare resources on the Internet and through the SWOSU Libraries.

  • Access restrictions: None
Pharmacy Resources
A directory of useful pharmacy-related resouces.
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