Nursing Reference Sources

Reference materials can be used to find background and general information on specific aspects of nursing and allied health. Use these resources to clarify the meaning of your topic and to check for synonyms (similar words) for your topic words. 

The following are a few selected reference resources at Ablah Library. They include Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Handbooks, Manuals,  and other items that may be useful for your research. Only the latest copies are listed here.

Dictionaries:

TITLE / AUTHOR or PUBLISHER

CALL NUMBER

Blackwell’s nursing dictionary./Oxford : Blackwell, 2005. RT21 .B53 2005
Slee’s health care terms / Debora A. Slee, Vergil N. Slee, H. Joachim Schmidt. RA423 .S55 2008
Mosby’s dictionary of medicine, nursing & health professions./Mosby Elsevier, c2006 R121 .M89 2006
Mosby’s medical, nursing, & allied health dictionary./Mosby, c2002. R121 .M89 2002
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia & dictionary of medicine, nursing, & allied health./Miller, Benjamin Frank R121 .M65 1997

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Encyclopedias

TITLE / AUTHOR or PUBLISHER

CALL NUMBER

The Gale encyclopedia of nursing & allied health./Thomson Gale, c2006  (also available as an Electronic Resource) RT21 .G353 2006
Encyclopedia of nursing research /Springer Pub., c2006 RT81.5 .E53 2006
The encyclopedia of elder care : the comprehensive resource on geriatric and social care /Springer Pub., c2001 RC954 .E53 2001
The Cambridge encyclopedia of human growth and development /Cambridge University Press, 1998 QP84 .C26 1998
Atlas of human anatomy / Frank H. Netter QM25 .N46 2006
Nursing research digest /Springer Pub. Co., c1999 RT81.5 .N8736 1999
Historical encyclopedia of nursing  / Mary Ellen Snodgrass. RT31 .S66 1999

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Online Encyclopedias
(available through the Gale Virtual Reference Center)

Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine 2nd ed., 4v, 2005
Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, 4v, 2001
Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer 2nd ed., 2v, 2005
Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer 2v, 2001
Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders 2nd ed., 2v, 2005
Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders 2v, 2001
Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine 2nd ed., 5v, 2002
Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed. 3rd ed., 5v, 2006
Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders 2v, 2005
Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health 2nd ed., 5v, 2006
Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health 5v, 2002

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Handbooks and Manuals

TITLE / AUTHOR or PUBLISHER

CALL NUMBER

Acute medicine : a handbook for nurse practitioners / Lisa Carroll. RT82.8 .C37 2007
Cardiac surgery manual for nurses : orientation, policy, and procedures / Debi Stephens-Lesser. RD598 .S74 2007
Clinical care classification (CCC) system manual : a guide to nursing documentation / Virginia K. Saba. RT50 .S23 2007
The clinical nurse specialist handbook / [edited by] Patti Rager Zuzelo. RT82.8 .C5554 2007
Clinical skills manual for maternal & child nursing care / Ruth C. McGillis Bindler ... [et al.]. RG951 .C57 2007
Davis’s comprehensive handbook of laboratory and diagnostic tests : with nursing implications / Anne M. Van Leeuwen, Todd R. Kranpitz, Lynette Smith. RB38.2 .S37 2006
Diagnostic tests./Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2007. RT48.5 .D528 2007
Diseases and disorders : a nursing therapeutics manual / Marilyn Sawyer Sommers, Susan A. Johnson, Theresa A. Beery RT51 .S66 2007
The evidence-based practice manual for nurses / edited by Jean V. Craig, Rosalind L. Smyth ; forewords by Christine Beasley, Sarah Mullally. RT51 .E85 2007
Manual of high risk pregnancy and delivery / Elizabeth S. Gilbert. RG951 .G543 2007
Pathophysiology / [editor, Julie Munden]. RT51 .P32 2007
Clinical nursing skills & techniques / [edited by] Anne Griffin Perry, Patricia A. Potter. RT51 .P365 2006
Davis’s comprehensive handbook of laboratory and diagnostic tests : with nursing implications / Anne M. Van Leeuwen, Todd R. Kranpitz, Lynette Smith. RB38.2 .S37 2006
Davis’s drug guide for nurses / Judith Hopfer Deglin, April Hazard Vallerand. RM301.12 .D44 2005
Foundations of clinical drug therapy / Anne Collins Abrams, Sandra Smith Pennington RM125 .A275 2005
LPN expert guides. Advanced skills./Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2007 RT62 .L65 2007
Mosby’s drug guide for nurses / Linda Skidmore-Roth RM301.12 .D44 2003
Mosby’s rapid reference to diagnostic & laboratory tests / Kathleen Deska Pagana, Timothy James Pagana RB38.2 .P33 2000
Nurse’s 5-minute clinical consult. Procedures. RT82.8 .N874 2008
Nurse’s 5-minute clinical consult. Diagnostic Tests RT48.6 .N84 2008
Nurse’s 5-minute clinical consult. Multisystem disorders. RT42 .N826 2008
Nurse’s 5-minute clinical consult. Signs & symptoms. RT48 .N78 2008
Nurse’s 5-minute clinical consult. Treatments RT51 .N87 2007
Nursing 2007 dangerous drug interactions./Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2007 RM302 .N87 2007
Nurses’ guide to clinical procedures / Jean Smith-Temple, Joyce Young Johnson. RT51 .S655 2006
Nurse’s manual of laboratory and diagnostic tests.  (also available as an electronic book) RT48.5 .W38 2003
Nurse’s quick check. Diagnostic tests. RT48.6 .N855 2006
Nurse’s quick check : diseases./Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2005 RT65 .N78 2005

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