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Library Databases & Online Resources

The Library's search engine OCtopus simultaneously searches for books, media, journal articles, and other resources in many of the Library's databases. It's a good place to start your research.

Elsevier Clinical Skills (formerly Mosby's Skills) This link opens in a new window
Elsevier Clinical Skills brings over 1,200 evidence-based skills and procedures together with competency management functionality to meet your learning and reference needs.

Taylor's Video Guide to Clinical Nursing Skills
**Use Internet Explorer to play**
Collection of nursing skills videos.

Nursing Reference Center Plus This link opens in a new window
Information about diseases and conditions, evidence-based care sheets, content on nursing best practices and skills, robust drug information, and videos and images to aid in patient care. Download the Nursing Reference Center Plus app for mobile access.
CINAHL This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for more than 770 journals indexed in CINAHL.
MEDLINE with Full-Text This link opens in a new window
A top database for the life sciences that includes citations or articles from more than 5,500 scholarly journals.
LWW Total Access Journal Collection This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 300 journals that specialize in such areas as medicine, nursing and life sciences.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
A full-text database offering journal articles, e-journals, e-books and book chapters for the science, business, management, accounting, medical, and technical subject areas.
PubMed (MEDLINE) This link opens in a new window
A database and digital archive of resources related to the life sciences, such as nursing, psychology, and health. PubMed Central is a digital archive of life sciences journal literature. Journals in PubMed Central are full-text and free.
**Only NIH-funded articles are open access for some titles.
Only NIH-funded articles are open access for some titles.

Textbooks & Books

Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg; Deepak Chopra (Foreword by)
Call Number: ONLINE
ISBN: 9781892005281
Publication Date: 2015-09-01
Required/recommended title for NRSU 123/NRSU223, freely available online through the Library.
Fluids and Electrolytes Made Incredibly Easy by Laura Willis
Call Number: ONLINE
ISBN: 9781975125066
Publication Date: 2019-11-16
Statistics for Nursing (2nd ed.) by Elizabeth Heavey
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781284048346
Publication Date: 2014-06-06
Also available in print from the Library (RT 68 .H43 2015). Note this is the 2nd edition.
*Limited to 3 simultaneous users
Davis's Canadian Drug Guide for Nurses by April Hazard Vallerand; Cynthia A. Sanoski
Call Number: ONLINE
ISBN: 9781719648134
Publication Date: 2022
Medical-Surgical Nursing in Canada (4th ed.) by Sharon L. Lewis; Shannon Ruff Dirksen; Margaret M. Heitkemper; Linda Bucher; Maureen A. Barry (Editor); Sandra Goldsworthy (Editor); Jana Lok (Editor); Jane Tyerman (Editor)
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781771720489
Publication Date: 2018-03-01
*Limited to 12 simultaneous users