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CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. Indexes over 650 journal titles, audiovisual materials, computer programs, dissertations, books and book chapters.
Clinical Skills (formerly Mosby's Nursing Skills) This link opens in a new window
NOTE to Nursing Students: This version has the videos but not the assessment piece you are required to have.
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
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Consists of the latest, up-to-date full-text of all reviews and protocols prepared by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international review group dedicated to preparing and maintaining evidenced-based materials on clinical topics.
EndNote Basic This link opens in a new window
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Health & Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic access and descriptions of tests, manuals, rating scales and other instruments used to assess health and behavior.
HaPI does not offer access to the test instruments themselves, but includes citations to freestanding instruments as well as instruments that have only appeared in journal or technical reports (published and unpublished). Copyright permission is needed to use any of the instruments found in HaPI.
Medline Ovid This link opens in a new window
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is the premier biomedical database from the National Library of Medicine searchable from 1946 to the present. It provides coverage in the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology.
PsycINFO (Ovid) This link opens in a new window
Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines
PubMed (Medline) This link opens in a new window
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The National Library of Medicine's interface to Medline, the premier biomedical database
Registry of Nursing Research This link opens in a new window
Updated regularly. An electronic research resource that is maintained by Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI), Honor Society of Nursing. It contains information and abstracts from over 17,300 studies.
UpToDate This link opens in a new window
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Guideline Central

Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine This link opens in a new window
Created specifically for students, knowledgeable consumer health researchers and health care professionals, Health Reference Center Academic integrates tens of millions of articles from a wide range of full-text nursing and allied health journals, magazines, newsletters and select consumer health information sources with full-text reference works and thousands of health-related multimedia assets, all available 24/7 through an intuitive, state-of-the-art platform with daily content updates.
MedlinePlus This link opens in a new window
MedlinePlus is the National Library of Medicine's web site for consumer health information. MedlinePlus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 650 diseases and conditions.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
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an abstracts and citations database of peer-reviewed literature. It allows for discovery of articles, as well as cited reference searching (number of times an article has been cited). It indexes nearly 23,000 peer-reviewed journals (including open access journals), trade journals, book series, conference proceedings, and pa-tents. Scopus is multidisciplinary, covering life and health sciences, agriculture, environment, engineering, technology, social sciences, landscape architecture, urban planning, and more.

Calculation Skills for Nurses by Claire Boyd
ISBN: 9781118448892
Publication Date: 2013
Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses by April Hazard Vallerand and Cynthia A. Sanoski
ISBN: 9781719640053
Publication Date: 2021
Drugs During Pregnancy and Lactation: Treatment Options and Risk Assessment by Christof Schaefer
ISBN: 9780124080782
Publication Date: 2015
Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation by Alicia B. Forinash; Roger K. Freeman; Craig V. Towers; Gerald G. Briggs
ISBN: 9781496349620
Publication Date: 2017
Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide by Amy Karch
ISBN: 9781469839370
Publication Date: 2014

Natural Medicines This link opens in a new window
authoritative resource on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary alternative and integrative therapies

Nursing Pharmacology Made Incredibly Easy! by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Staff (Prepared for Publication by); Springhouse Publishing Company Staff
ISBN: 9781451146240
Publication Date: 2013

Electronic Books
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Bates Videos

Bates Videos

Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination - Videos by Lynn S. Bickley
ISBN: 9781496398178
Publication Date: 2021

Bates Books

Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, 13th edition by Lynn S. Bickley
ISBN: 9781496398178
Publication Date: 2021
Bates' Pocket Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, 9th edition by Lynn S. Bickley
ISBN: 9781975109875
Publication Date: 2021

Exam Review

BoardVitals This link opens in a new window As 0f 9/1/2023 reviews available for: Adult Gerontology Nurse Practitioner - Acute Care (ANCC and AACN), Adult Gerontology Nurse Practitioner - Primary Care, Family Nurse Practitioner (ANCC and AANP)
Board Vitals is not connected to your UTMB credentials. First time users: - Register here. Use your UTMB email address.

Nursing Review Materials

How to Approach a Search Tutorials

Asking Searchable Questions
Finding Answers
Searching Tips
Includes subject headings, explode, and use of AND/OR

CINAHL Help

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Covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. Indexes over 650 journal titles, audiovisual materials, computer programs, dissertations, books and book chapters.

CINAHL

Cochrane Library

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Consists of the latest, up-to-date full-text of all reviews and protocols prepared by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international review group dedicated to preparing and maintaining evidenced-based materials on clinical topics.

Cochrane Library

APA Help

APA Style (APA home page)

Sample Papers and Templates

APA Sample Papers
Student and Professional versions
Annotated PDFs withe explanations plus editable Word files

General APA Help:

APA Quick Reference Guide
for journal articles, books, and book chapters
APA Style - Handouts and Guides
APA help from General to Paper Format, In-text Citations, and Reference List
APA: Basics of APA Style -Tutorial
APA Overview and Workshop - Purdue OWL
APA: Formatting and Style Guide -Owl at Purdue
APA: In-Text Citations Basics- Owl at Purdue

Transitioning from the 6th to the 7th editiions:

EndNote Basic Help

EndNote Guide:

EndNote Basic
by Julie Trumble Last Updated Aug 31, 2023 2396 views this year

EndNote Handouts/Tutorials

EndNote Basic Overview

EndNote Basic - Install Cite While You Write (Windows)
EndNote Basic - Install Cite While You Write (Mac)
Mac Users - Cite While You Write is not compatible with the Pages word processor from Apple. You must have Microsoft Word.

Mendeley

Zotero

Zotero Download

There are multiple ways you can use Zotero reference management tool. There is a desktop application and an online version. The app will have more capabilities, but the online version has the basic needs.

Zotero in Google Docs- Helps you easily add citations and bibliographies to the documents you create in Google Docs

*Information taken from the Zotero website*

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