SWTJC/RGC - Health and Medical Resources


In doing research, make the library and the library web page your primary source of information. For books, use the library's online catalog and online books.  For articles, use the online periodical databases available via EBSCOhost, Gale, and FirstSearch. While other web pages on the Internet may contain valuable information, you need to critically evaluate each source.
Online Full-Text Databases and Indexes


     EBSCOhost health databases:
  

            Alt Health Watch

            CINAHL Plus with Full Text

            Health Source - Consumer Edition

            Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition

            MedicLatina

            Medline

    Infotrac/Gale Group :

            Health Reference Center Academic

            Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module

    Pub Med - Access to 12 million citations & links to many sites with full-text  resources.
   

Nursing Resources

American Association of Colleges of Nursing

AACN American Association of Critical Care Nurses Online

American Association of Neuroscience Nurses

Emergency Nurses Association - ENA is the national Association for professional nurses dedicated to the advancement of emergency nursing practice.

Evaluating Internet Health Information: A Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine

MedlinePlus Guide to Healthy Web Surfing - What to look for when evaluating health information online.

Nightingale - College of Nursing, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Nursing World - Home page of The American Nurses Association with a wealth of helpful links for those in the nursing profession.

Online Journal of Issues in Nursing

Texas Nurses Association - TNA is a state-wide membership-based association of registered nurses (RNs).

United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) - National Institutes of Health 

 

 


General Medicine and Health

American Diabetes Association  

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Evaluating Internet Health Information: A Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine

Family Health Guide - online companion to the Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide

HealthGate - Information for patients, nurses, and physicians. Provides access to press articles, wellness topics. Site has search capabilities.

Mayo Clinic Health - Daily news on diseases, treatments, drugs, and diet.

Medical Breakthroughs - Reports on the latest in medical news.

MedicineNet - medical information for diseases, treatments, procedures, drugs and more

MedlinePlus Guide to Healthy Web Surfing - What to look for when evaluating health information online.

Mental Health Net

Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy

MerckSource - has a wide variety of health tools and resources with no advertising.

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

RxList - The Internet Drug Index - Resources for in-depth drug information.

Texas Department of Health

United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) - National Institutes of Health

WebMD


 

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