Registered Nurse

Nursing Resources

Nursing Reference Center
Nursing Reference Center includes information about conditions and diseases, patient education resources, drug information, continuing education, lab & diagnosis detail, best practice guidelines, and more.
CINAHL (Nursing Literature)
CINAHL with full text covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines and provides the full text for more than 600 journals.
MEDLINE® with Full Text
MEDLINE® with Full Text lets you search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals, with full text access for more than 1,470 journals.
Calculators & Tools

Nursing Calculators
MedCalc3000
Patient Education

Detailed Drug Information for the Consumer™
Stat!Ref
AAFP Conditions A to Z (2010)
Stat!Ref
MedlinePlus - Health Information for Patients
Authoritative information for patients and health consumers from the US National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations.
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Health Topics A-Z
National Institutes of Health's lead agency for scientific research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).
Complementary & Alternative Medicine

Natural Standard
Natural Standard provides high-quality, evidence-based information on dietary supplements (including herbs, vitamins, and minerals), functional foods, diets, complementary practices (modalities), exercises, and medical conditions.
Multicultural Information

EthnoMed
The EthnoMed site contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other related issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants to Seattle or the US, many of whom are refugees fleeing war-torn parts of the world. It includes information for patients as well as for providers.

Getting Started

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