Access to Practical Nursing (APN) & Practical Nursing LibGuide 2025

44 Research Databases in the OC Library Collection focused on Nursing and Healthcare.

Health Canada is responsible for helping Canadians maintain and improve their health. It ensures that high-quality health services are accessible, and works to reduce health risks.

The BC Centre for Disease Control, a program of the Provincial Health Services Authority, provides provincial and national leadership in disease surveillance, detection, treatment, prevention and consultation.

Connecting British Columbians with reliable health information and services. designed for non-medically trained persons.

ScienceUpFirst is a national initiative that works with a collective of independent scientists, researchers, climate and health experts and science communicators. ScienceUpFirst emerged out of a critical need. When the pandemic hit, co-founders Timothy Caulfield and Senator Stan Kutcher saw how misinformation was hurting Canadians. Since ScienceUpFirst started in 2020, we have grown into a funded initiative of the Canadian Association of Science Centres, working to fight misinformation and promote scientific understanding.

The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) provides comparable and actionable data and information that are used to accelerate improvements in health care, health system performance and population health across Canada. Our stakeholders use our broad range of health system databases, measurements and standards, together with our evidence-based reports and analyses, in their decision-making processes. We protect the privacy of Canadians by ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of the health care information we provide.

PubMed® comprises more than 37 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

MalaCards is a searchable, integrated knowledgebase offering comprehensive, user-friendly information on human diseases, medical conditions, and disorders. Explore extensive gene-disease associations, disease mutations, phenotypes, pathways, drugs, and more, seamlessly integrated from 77 curated and computed, trusted web sources