A research tool for all aspects of nursing containing full-text scholarly journal articles, care sheets and quick lessons on diseases. Limit: 4 users at a time
A collection of social work and sociology indices, including Social Services Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts, plus a number of full-text journals.
Physician Assistant Databases
These databases, intended for the PA program at Northwestern, may also be helpful to nursing students:
A tool for medical students that contains a variety of resources including e-textbooks, diagnostic tools, procedural videos, patient education materials, a drug database, photos, illustrations and case files.
UpToDate is a tool that assists health care professionals with point-of-care decisions. Many health providers depend on UpToDate to help guide care decisions and be informed about standards. The resource is evidence based and authored by physicians.
Learn how to search PubMed. PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 19 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to 1948. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.