Nursing Resources

Article Databases

EBP Databases

Nursing Consult Spotlight on Nursing Consult

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A comprehensive online resource designed to help nurses provide better patient care.

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MD Consult Spotlight on MD Consult

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A comprehensive online resource designed to help physicians provide better patient care.

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Essential Evidence + Spotlight on Essential Evidence Plus

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An evidence-based, point of care (bedside), compendium of resources and tools designed for primary care clinicians and delivered to the PDA or workstation.

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National Guideline Clearinghouse
Cochrane Library Spotlight on Cochrane Library

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The CDSR is a database of systematic reviews created by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization of expert groups. The Cochrane Collaboration has developed a strict methodology detailing how their topic reviews are performed, which they use to make best practices recommendations for clinicians.

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UpToDate Spotlight on UpToDate

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UpToDate is an excellent background resource for medical students and residents interested in efficiently filling holes in their knowledge base. UpToDate is a large on-line medical textbook that contains short, well-written discussions of medical topics in internal medicine, pediatrics, ob/gyn and family medicine. Each review article is written by an expert in the field being discussed, and is designed to provide a quick way to get up to speed. The database is updated periodically.

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CINAHL Plus Spotlight on CINAHL Plus

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CINAHL Plus with Full Text is a comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, directly providing online full text through links within the database, or through the FIND IT button.

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PubMed Spotlight on PubMed

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PubMed is a web-based interface to MEDLINE, the pre-eminent health sciences database of journal articles. PubMed covers 4800 journals in all levels and disciplines of the health sciences. In addition, UW access to PubMed provides links to ~2500 full-text journals (more than 50% of the journals covered in PubMed).

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PsycINFO Spotlight on PsycINFO

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The PsycINFO database contains more than 2.6 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. It also includes information about psychological aspects in disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law.

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MICROMEDEX Spotlight on MICROMEDEX

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MICROMEDEX is a collection of many different drug databases, including Martindale, the Physician's Desk Reference (PDR), DRUGDEX, DISEASEDEX, POISONDEX, and several alternative medicine databases. Drugs can be searched by trade name, generic name, or even "street" name.

Access Limited to:

  • Health Sciences Learning Center
  • School of Pharmacy
  • UW Hospital
  • UW Health Clinics
  • UW Medical Foundation
  • Meriter Hospital
  • Divine Savior Healthcare

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MedlinePlus

E-Resources

Top Nursing Journals

Title Contents Feed
Birth contents feed 
Journal of Advanced Nursing contents feed 
Journal of Clinical Nursing contents feed 
Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing contents feed 
Journal of Nursing Administration contents feed 
Journal of Nursing Scholarship contents feed 
Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing contents feed 
Nursing Research contents feed 
Nursing Science Quarterly contents feed 
Research in Nursing and Health contents feed 

Tech Toys

Video & Podcasts

  • IME Videos
    Innovations in Medical Education video library
  • SoN Audio/Visual Catalog
    AV Materials not part of the Ebling Library collection. For use by SoN faculty, staff and students only
  • The Nursing Show
    podcast of news, commentary, and tips for nurse
  • PodBean.com
    podcast hosting & social subscribing
  • Health Podcasts
    a sampling of health journal podcasts collected by the Ebling Library

Calculators

Mobile Apps

netter anatomyNetter's Anatomy Flash Cards ($39.99)
300 flash cards mirroring the illustrations from the text. Images show origination, insertion, action, innervation, and anatomical relevance

epocratesEpocrates Rx (free)
mobile drug reference resource used at the point of care

eponyms Eponyms for students ($1.99)
1,600 medical eponyms (e.g., Rovsing's sign, Virchow's node) with descriptions

MedCalcMedCalc (free)
Medical Calculator

lexicompLexi-Nursing Suite ($179.99)
includes Nursing Lexi-Drugs, Lexi-Interact, Lexi-I.V. Compatibility, Lexi-Lab & Diagnostic Procedures, and Lexi-CALC

Nursing CentralNursing Central ($159.99)
disease, drug, and test information for nurses. Application itself is free, but requires a $159.99 subscription

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Distance

Off Campus Online Access
Use links from a UW-Madison library page (or the remote access bookmarklet). You will be prompted to log in with your UW NetID and password.

BSN@Home
Library services page for students in the 5 UW Campuses participating in the BSN@Home Program.

Preceptors - CE

Precepting Nursing Students CE
Courses provided through the mynursingce learning portal

Preceptors EBP Training Bibliography

Instruction

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Page last updated: October 28, 2011
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