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NU 210 Resources

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Selected Electronic Books -- Periodical Databases -- Selected Books in Busse Library -- Selected Websites

Selected Electronic Books

Cancer Screening. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1999.

Higgins, Chris. Understanding Laboratory Investigations. Malden, MA: Blackwell Science, 2000.

The Patient's Guide to Medical Tests. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Reference, 1997.

Reteguiz, Jo-Ann. Physical Diagnosis. New York: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2001.

 

Periodical Databases
 

EBSCO Databases (password required)

  • CINAHL -- Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Literature
  • EBSCO Academic Search Premier -- Contains full-text articles for over 3,400 scholarly journals and is the world's largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database. Subject areas include: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, languages, linguistics, arts & literature, medicine, and ethnic studies.
  • PsycINFO -- Index to psychological journal articles, books, chapters, technical reports and dissertations from 1887 to the present.

FirstSearch Databases (password required)

After you key in your login and password, you will need to select again from the list of available databases on the search screen.  To do this click on the dropdown menu in: Jump to Advanced Search: Select a Database to Search.  Select the required database and begin your search. You may initiate an InterLibrary Loan request from FirstSearch databases to the Busse Library. Use the linked NOTE 13A: Searching the FirstSearch Databases for help in using the databases. 

  • ArticleFirst - Index to citations from of over 12,600 journals. Tips on using this database.
  • GPO Monthly Catalog - Index to information printed by the US Government Printing Office. Tips on using this database.
  • MEDLINE -- Access to Medline index of medical journals.
  • PubMed --Access to Medline from the National Library of Medicine. Index to medical journals from around the world.
  • World Almanac - Facts and figures
  • WorldCat - Over 30 million catalog records of books and audiovisuals held in libraries around the world. A good way to see if a book has been published on a topic which you may want to borrow through InterLibrary Loan. Remember to select books with at least 15 library holdings indicated. Tips on using this database.

 

Selected Books in Busse Library

Barkauskas, Violet.
St. Louis: Mosby-Yearbook, 1998. RT48 /H38 1998

Block, Gloria J.
Health assessment for professional nursing: a developmental approach.
Norwalk, CT: Appleton-Century, c1986. RT48 .B56 1986

Burns, Kenneth R.
Health assessment in clinical practice.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, c1980. RT48 .B87

Carcio, Helen Nelson.
Manual of health assessment.
Boston: Little, Brown, c1985. RT48 .C36 1985

Engel, Joyce.
Pocket guide to pediatric assessment.
St. Louis: Mosby, c1997. RJ50 .E64 1997

Estes, Mary Ellen Zator.
Health assessment and physical examination.
Albany, NY: Delmar, c1997. RT48 .H425 1997

Jarvis, Carolyn.
Physical examination and health assessment.
Philadelphia: Saunders, c2000. RC76 .J37 2000

Jones, Dorothy A.
Health assessment across the life span.
New York: McGraw-Hill, c1984. RT48 .J66 1984

Lueckenotte, Annette Giesler.
Pocket guide to gerontologic assessment.
St. Louis: Mosby, c1994. RC954 .L83 1994

Rudy, Ellen B.
Handbook of health assessment.
Norwalk, CT: Appleton and Lange, c1991. RT48.6 .R83 1991

Weber, Janet.
Nurses' handbook of health assessment.
Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams, c2001. RT48.5 .N863 2001

 

Selected Websites

 

Online materials for students enrolled in NU 210 are provided by the Busse Library, Mount Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, IA. Use is limited to registered students. Contact the Busse Library with your questions.