Nursing

Welcome to the Southeastern LibGuide for nursing.  Use the tabs at the top to find sources and information to help you research topics in nursing.

Welcome to the LibGuide for nursing!

Here you will find resources to help you with your research:

• Books
• Journals
• Databases
• eJournals
• Citation Style:  APA
• Online Learners

• MLA COVID-19 Resources

  Crowdsourced and vetted by librarians

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• Descriptions of new reports

Books on nursing can be found by using the Find Books at SEU search box or by browsing the library's collection.

Library of Congress Classifications

These Library of Congress classification areas may be useful when browsing the shelves at Steelman Library for materials on nursing. They are found on the second floor. You can use these same classifications in the reference section on the first (main) floor. 

• BJ — Ethics
• R — Medicine

• R2 Digital Library

  

  Medical database of digital books with drug information, Rittenhouse and Lippincott materials.

Circulation

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Reference

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When you can't access an article or book, remember to request it from ILL at no cost.

Click this icon in a database, or use the Request Library Materials link below.

Request Library Materials Form
Request (books, chapters, journal articles)
Contact ILL at ill@seu.edu

• You can request books and articles not available at SEU or other local libraries through Interlibrary Loan.
• Articles will be emailed to you whenever possible.
• Books will be mailed with pre-paid postage return packaging, if you are an online student.
• Use links from resources to make requests, or use the Interlibrary Loan Request Form.

• Health Source-Nursing

  

  500 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health.

• Nursing and Public Health Subject Collection

  

  Nursing theory and research, and health-related articles from Sage.

• Nursing Full-Text Journals Ovid

  Full-text nursing journals from Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins (LWW).

A selection of e-journals available through Steelman Library. 

• Acta Bioethica

  Published by the Bioethics Unit of the Pan American Health Organizaton (PAHO).

• American Journal of Bioethics

  From 1/1/2001 to 1 year ago.

• Bioethics

  From 1/1/1998 to 1 year ago.

• BMC Medical Ethics

  From 2000 to present.

• British Journal of Medical Practitioners

• Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

  From 1/1/2001 to 1 year ago.

• Christian Bioethics

  From 3/1/1997 to 1 year ago.
  Also available in print in the library: 2001--present.

• Clinical Ethics

  From 3/1/2006 to present.

• Core Evidence

  From 6/1/2006 to present.

• Danish Council of Ethics Annual Report

  From 1/1/2006 to present.

• Developing World Bioethics

  From 5/1/2001 to 1 year ago.

• Ethics & Medicine: A Christian Perspective on Issues in Bioethics

  From 4/1/2001 to present.
  Also available in print in the library: 1990--present

• Ethics & Medicine: An International Journal of Bioethics

  From 3/1/2008 to present.

• Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics

  January 2000--present.
  Older issues also available.

• Genome Medicine

  From 1/1/2009 to present.

• Hastings Center Report

  From 2/1/1988 to present.
  Also available in print in the library: 2000--present.

• HEC Forum

  From 3/1/1999 to 1 year ago.

• Journal of Experimental & Clinical Assisted Reproduction

  Research in endocrinology, infertility, bioethics, and advanced reproductive technologies.

• Journal of Medical Humanities

  From 3/1/1997 to 1 year ago.

• Journal of Medicine and Philosophy

  From 2/1/1997 to 1 year ago.

• Medical Economics

  From 10/1/2004 to present.

• Medical Ethics Advisor

  From 4/1/2007 to present.

• Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy

  From 1/1/1998 to 1 year ago.

• Online Journal of Health Ethics

  From 2004 to present.
  Published by the University of Southern Mississippi.

• Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine

  From 1/1/2006 to present.

Recommended Databases

• Bates Visual Guide

  

  Trial from Feb 12 - March 14, 2018

• CINAHL Plus with Full Text

  

  Searches (CINAHL/Health Source/Medline). Medical diseases, conditions, and the most effective treatment options.

• Cochrane Library

  

  Independent high-quality evidence for healthcare decision making

• Complete Counseling and Therapy

  

  Applied training materials that help today's counseling students, faculty, and practitioners put theory into practice. More than 2,000 hours of training videos, conference sessions, and footage of actual therapy sessions (Ends Sept 30)

• Health Reference Center Academic

  

• Health Source-Nursing

  

  500 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health

• Nursing and Public Health Subject Collection

  

  Nursing theory and research, and health-related articles from Sage

• Nursing Full-Text Journals Ovid

  

  Full-text nursing journals from Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins (LWW)

• Ovid Nursing and JBI Evidence Based

  

  Joanna Briggs Institute Evidence-Based Practice Database and full-text articles from 73 nursing journals

• PubMed Central

  

  

  Open Access: PubMed Central provides National Institutes of Health (NIH) articles about biomedical and life sciences

• R2 Digital Library

  

  Medical database of digital books with drug information, Rittenhouse, and Lippincott materials

Other Databases

• Academic Search Complete

  

  Scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text databases accessed in one search.

• Counseling & Social Work Video Collection

  Over 280 videos on Counseling and Social Work.

• Health and Wellness Resource Center including Alternative Health

  

• Medline

  

  Authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine

• Medline Plus

  

  Health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine.

• Nursing and Allied Health Collection

  
• Open Science Directory

  

  About 13000 scientific journals are available.

• PLoS Journals

  

  Public Library of Science publishes peer-reviewed open-access health, biology, science journals.

• ProQuest

  

  General index of articles on nearly every topic.

• ProQuest Biology

  

  Full-text articles on a wide range of biology topics.

• ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

  

  A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses.

• Psychotherapy.net

  

  High-quality video streaming with over 140 films in the Exclusive Collection.

• ScienceDirect

  Business, Accounting, Economics, Finance, Psychology and Social Sciences. Over 700 journals combined.

• Statista–Statistics

  

  Aggregates statistical data from thousands of sources into one simple search including market researchers, trade organizations, scientific journals, and government databases.

• Symptom Media

Click on the images below to visit the respective websites.

• 2010 Polk County Census Map

  

• Census Bureau Leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy.

• Florida Health Charts

• Statista–Statistics

  
  Aggregates statistical data from thousands of sources into one simple search including market researchers, trade organizations, scientific journals, and government databases.

• Statisitcal Atlas of the US Click on a state, county, city to find information

• US Boundary

• US Census Fact Finder

Presentations

• APA 2019 Nursing Presentation

  

• Community Assessment Presenta

Community Assessment Assignment

• After treatment with semaglutide, newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetes patients needed little or no insulinThis link opens in a new window

  Treating newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetes patients with semaglutide (trade names Ozempic, Wegovy and Rybelsus) may drastically reduce or even eliminate their need for injected insulin.

• Study illuminates mechanism that annotates genetic information passed from fathers to offspringThis link opens in a new window

  Scientists have identified a key part of a mechanism that annotates genetic information before it is passed from fathers to their offspring. The findings shed new light on genomic imprinting, a fundamental, biological process in which a gene from one parent is switched off while the copy from the other parent remains active. Errors in imprinting are linked to a host of diseases, such as the rare disease Silver-Russell syndrome along with certain cancers and diabetes.

• Concussions early in life tied to late life cognitive declineThis link opens in a new window

  A study of twins shows that having a concussion early in life is tied to having lower scores on tests of thinking and memory skills decades later as well as having more rapid decline in those scores than twins who did not have a concussion, or traumatic brain injury (TBI).

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• Bioethics Forum

  Commentary on issues in bioethics.

• Bioethics

  Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

• Bioethics

  Santa Clara University, California.

• Bioethics

  UNESCO.

• Bioethics Institute

  Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California.

• Bioethics.net

  American Journal of Bioethics.

• BioNews

  United Kingdom.

• Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute

  University of St. Michael's College, University of Toronto, Canada.

• MacLean Center

  Clinical medical ethics. University Of Chicago.

• Center for Bioethics

  University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

• Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity

  Trinity International University, Deerfield, IL.

• Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics

  University of Uppsala, Sweden.

• Eubios Ethics Institute

  New Zealand and Japan. Textfiles only.

• Hastings Center

  Nonpartisan research institution. Established in 1969.

• Informed Medical Decisions.org

  Non-profit organization advancing research, policy, and clinical models that assure patients are fully informed and involved in decisions that affect their health and well-being.

• Joint Centre for Bioethics

  University of Toronto, Canada.

• Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University

  Established in 1971 at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Topics include protection of research subjects, reproductive and feminist bioethics, end of life care, health care justice, intellectual disability, cloning, gene therapy, eugenics, and other major issues in bioethics.

• MedEdPortal

  From the Association of American Medical Colleges. A free peer-reviewed publication service and repository for medical and oral health teaching materials, assessment tools, and faculty development resources.

• NRCBL: National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature

  Georgetown University, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Washington, DC.

• Schlesinger Institute for Medical-Halachic Reseearch (Hebrew)

  Dedicated to the halachic approach of medical ethics. Through the scholarship and expertise of leading rabbis, doctors and others, the Institute aims to research and resolve the halachic issues that emerge as medicine progresses, to consider their medical, halachic, legal and ethical ramifications, and to present practical responses.

• Bioethics Australia

  An Australian government initiative.

• Bioethics Resources on the Web

  National Institutes of Health.

• Genome programs of the U.S. Department of Energy

  Office of Biological and Environmental Research of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science.

• GGPP: Issues in Genetics, Genomics and Health

  National Institutes of Health.

• Human Genome Project The Human Genome Project serves as an integrated, one-stop, genomic information infrastructure for biomedical researchers.

• National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health

  Washington, DC.

• NIH Stem Cell Information

  The National Institutes of Health resource for stem cell research.

• Science.gov

  Searches over 40 databases and 1,950 selected websites, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information, including research and development results.

• President's Council on Bioethics (2001-2009)

  Established by President George W. Bush, this council was decommissioned in 2009 by President Obama. Contains numerous resources on bioethics issues.

Circulation

circ@seu.edu
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Reference

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• APA 7 Presentation Quick Guide

  

• American Psychological Association

• APA Updates

  What's new in the Seventh Edition of the APA Manual

• APA Formatting & Style (OWL at Purdue)

  Information on APA format from the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University.

• APA Tricky Questions

  Search the blog for the answer to your tricky question.

• The Basics of APA Style

  A tutorial for those who are new to APA style.

• Citing Court Decisions in APA Style

• Duke University - Citing Sources

If you are citing an article from a scholarly journal and there is no DOI listed, you may click the link below and follow the directions to attempt to find a DOI.

DOI search

Add http://dx.doi.org/ in front of your DOI and it should become a hotlink to the article you are citing if you have the correct DOI.

Zotero works best with Microsoft Word and SEU students can get Office 365 at no cost.

• Office 365 for Students

  
• Contact IT at helpdesk@seu.edu or 863-667-5028

• More Steelman Library videos

• Zotero Setup Guide

• American Psychological Association

• APA Updates 

• APA Formatting & Style (OWL at Purdue)

  Information on APA format from the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University.

• The Basics of APA Style

  A tutorial for those who are new to APA style.

• FAQs about APA

• APA7 Cheat Sheet 

  
  A PDF copy of the APA 7 presentation
• Learning APA style

  Information on APA Style for people new to the format and for those who are familiar with using APA style.

• Writing Content Rules

• Word Template APA7

  
• APA 7 Google Doc Template Save a copy to your Google Drive

  

It is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources.

Zotero works with Microsoft Word to create your bibliography for you.

Source: American Psychological Association (2019). Page 266

In-Text Citations

After a quote, add the first entry in Works Cited — usually the author's last name and a page reference. "The in-text citation should direct the reader unambiguously to the entry in your works-cited list…" (page numbers used in this guide indicate where the topic is found in the MLA Handbook).

If using the author's name in your text, do not include it in the parentheses.

If you use more than one work by the same author, abbreviate the title to a noun phrase.

If more than one author has the same last name, add their first initial, if needed, use the first name.

If two authors wrote the work, list both separated by and, if three or more, list the first author followed by et al

If no pagination information is available, but paragraphs are numbered, include that information.

If no pagination information is available and paragraphs are not numbered, the work must be cited only in its entirety, but you can include words in your text that indicate about where to find the quote.

Note: "Identifying the source in your text is essential for nearly every kind of borrowing…quotations…facts…paraphrased ideas" (MLA 57).

For additional examples, see pages See Reference Examples APA 7 10.2 pp 321-323

For additional examples, see pages See Reference Examples APA 7 pp 320-352

Personal communications may be private letters, memos, non-archived electronic communications, personal interviews, etc. Because they do not provide recoverable data, they are not included in the reference list. The same is true of live performances.

Instead, you should cite these sources in your text with the initial and last name of the communicator and as exact a date as possible.

Samples:

Narrative E.-M. Paradis (personal communication, August 8, 2019)

Parenthetical (T. Nguyen, personal communication, February 24, 2020)

If you are citing a recording or archived copy of the performance or personal communication, these forms are recoverable and should be referenced in your Works Cited list as a video, online forum post, tape recording, etc.

Circulation

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Enter your MyFIRE login and password to continue. 

If you have problems, call the Main Library at 863-667-5089

Borrowing Policies

• Steelman items can be mailed to distance students' homes.
  (Loans are one month and include return postage).
• Articles, book chapters can be scanned and emailed.
• Send an email to circ@seu.edu with your student ID number, the program you are in, and the title, author, etc. of the book that you are requesting.
• ILL can request articles from other libraries for all students. (Not whole books).

Tutorial on how to request Steelman books for Distance students 

• Research Request Form

  Automatically delivers your request to an SEU Librarian.

• Request Library Materials Form

  Request (books, chapters, journal articles)
  Contact ILL at ill@seu.edu or 863.667.5059.

• Course Reserve Form - Professors

  Place materials on reserve for your students.
  Contact circ@seu.edu or 863.667.5059

• Request Library Materials Form

  Request (books, chapters, journal articles)
  Contact ILL at ill@seu.edu or 863.667.5059.

• Extension Site Request for Library Instruction

  Instructor form to request an onsite visit or Google Hangout.

If you see this EBSCO page, go back to the Steelman Library Databases and start again. This screen appears when connecting directly to EBSCO from Google or a direct link from off-campus, if that link is not coded correctly.

Circulation

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Reference

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Getting Started

Using the Databases - Journals

Using the Databases - eBooks

Citing Your Research

• MyFIRE

  
• Library Website

  
• Library Catalog

  
• SEU.edu

  

• Academic Advisors

• Business
• Christian Ministries and Religion
• Communication
• Education
• Graduate and Doctoral Studies
• Natural and Health Sciences

Using EBSCO to Find Scholarly Articles

To find articles published in periodicals (magazines, newspapers, journals, etc.), you will need to use a database. Databases can be multi-disciplinary (EBSCO, Proquest) or subject specific (ERIC, PSYCInfo). They can be searched in numerous ways: by author, title of the article or periodical, by keyword, or subject.

How to Select a Database

Click the "Library Databases" link below. You will find descriptions of database contents printed next to the database link.

Full-Text Available or Citation/Abstract Only?

If you need to be able to read the article immediately, be sure to click the "Full Text Only" box near the search box.

Locating a Known Article

If you are looking for a known article (you already have the citation from a reference book, bibliography, another article, etc.), try:

• Use the A-to-Z Journal List link below - Search by journal title to see if a particular journal is fulltext and to be directed to that full text content
• Search the library catalog by journal title to find out if a particular journal title (magazine, journal, newspaper, etc.) is available in print. Print periodicals are arranged alphabetically by title on the 1st floor of the library. Older issues can be found on the 2nd Floor.
• Do a search on the web. Although most journal articles are not available for free, sometimes you may find what you are looking for.
• If you cannot locate the full-text in print or electronic format, you may request the item using the library's interlibrary loan service.

Resources

• Request Library Materials Form
• A to Z Journal List (EBSCO)

  
  Alphabetic Title Listing of All Journals, Print and Electronic, Available.
• SEU Library Catalog

• Academic Search Complete

  
  Scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text databases accessed in one search.
• Oxford English Dictionary

  
  The accepted authority on English language meaning, history, and pronunciation.
• ProQuest

  
  General index of articles on nearly every topic.
• SIRS Issue Researcher

  
  A comprehensive database portal which is comprised of several distinct reference databases covering social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues.

EBSCO bases de datos en Español.

When you can't access an article or book, remember to request it from ILL at no cost.

Click this icon in a database, or use the Request Library Materials link below.

Request Library Materials Form
Request (books, chapters, journal articles)
Contact ILL at ill@seu.edu

• You can request books and articles not available at SEU or other local libraries through Interlibrary Loan.
• Articles will be emailed to you whenever possible.
• Books will be mailed with pre-paid postage return packaging, if you are an online student.
• Use links from resources to make requests, or use the Interlibrary Loan Request Form.

• Digital Public Library of America
  over 5 million items online EBL. 
• EBSCO eBooks

  
  Books can be read online or downloaded (Adobe Digital Editions required for download).
• Greenwood Business eBooks

  
  A collection of 80 full-text business books to read, print, and download.
• Grace Ebooks
  Hundreds of free PDF Christian ebooks. Search box is at the bottom of the page.
• HathiTrust

  
  Provides preservation and access services for public domain and in-copyright content from a variety of sources. Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives. Open Access
• LibriVox

  
  Hundreds of free open access audio books.
• On-line Books Page
  From the University of Pennsylvania. Offers 35,000 titles including women writers, banned books and foreign language.
• Project Gutenberg
  30,000 public domain ebooks with free open access
• Salem Literature

  
  Online database that includes the complete content of Critical Insights, Critical Survey of Long Fiction and Critical Survey of Poetry, Magill's Literary Annual and Masterplots.
• World Digital Library
  Collection of approximately 1,200 primary works features original books, maps, photographs, and various other materials provided by 27 institutions around the world.
• Open Access Digital Collections Worldwide
  Many digital collections worldwide.

Adobe Digital Editions

Read ebooks on your computer w/o Internet

1. First create an Adobe ID https://accounts.adobe.com/
2. Download and install Digital Editions Download
3. Enter your Adobe ID
4. Create an EBSCO ID.
5. Search for ebooks from EBSCO, download and read them on your computer.
6. ebooks will automatically delete when the checkout expires.

Should I read online or download?

Click and read online, easy.

If you want to download...

1. Create free Ebsco or ProQuest account
2. Create free Adobe account
3. Download and install Digital Editions
4. Authorize Digital Editions
5. Download your ebook

Read online, or:

1. Create an EBSCO ID
2. Install Adobe Digital Editions
3. Download ebook
4. Select 7 or 14 loan based on publisher availability
5. Select PDF or EPUB
   (​Computer will only get PDF)
   (Your phone will only get EPUB)