Nursing Resources

Best Bets (Peer-Reviewed and Scholarly Sources)

CINAHL Complete

• Research tool for nursing and allied health professionals 

CPS/e-CPS

• Comprises:
  • CPS (Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties) 
  • CTC (Compendium of Therapeutic Choices) 
  • CTMA (Compendium of Therapeutics for Minor Ailments)
  • CPMA (Compendium of Products for Minor Ailments)
  • Lexi-Interact Calculator

Psychotherapy.net Mental Health Videos 

• Video lectures on mental health 

PubMed 

• Academic literature from life sciences journals and books 

ScienceDirect: Health & Life Sciences Collection (Elsevier)

• Full text peer-reviewed health journals 

Other Nursing Resources (Scholarly and Popular Sources) 

Alt HealthWatch (EBSCO)

• contemporary, holistic, integrated approaches to health

Books@Ovid: LWW Nursing Books Collection (Ovid) 

• Full-text nursing books. (If Login page comes up, choose the OpenAthens | Institutional link below the login box and search for Northwestern Polytechnic)

Cogprints: Cognitive Sciences Eprint Archive (University of South Hampton) 

• Psychology, computer science, medicine, psychiatry papers 

Health Source: Consumer Edition (EBSCO) 

• Health information intended for a general audience 

Health Videos & Tools (Open Access) 

• Videos with animated graphics about diagnoses and diseases 

Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image of Women 

• Video: Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh look at how advertising traffics in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity.

Okanagan Charter: An International Charter for Health Promoting Universities & Colleges

• Proceedings from the 7th International Conference on Health Promoting Universities and Colleges 

PsycINFO - APA PsycINFO 

• Psychological, social, behavioural, and health science information 

Public Health Infobase (Open Access) 

•  a selection of easy to use tools for accessing and viewing public health data.