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Health Care Assistant

This guide will help students in the Health Care Assistant program complete requirements for their courses.

ONLINE information available through the Library

OCtopus
The Library's Google-like search engine. Find articles, books, videos, and more!
CINAHL
A comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for more than 770 journals indexed in CINAHL.

Merck Manual
One of the most concise and complete medical reference books for medical students and health care professionals. Browse by section, index, or symptoms, and find the right information quickly. The Manual is organized into organ systems, such as heart, gastrointestinal system, muscular system, etc, and it examines each major disease of each system.

Reliable Websites

HealthLinkBC
The recommended starting point! Go to Illnesses and Conditions, to learn about common health concerns and how to prevent or treat them.
Mayo Clinic - Canada
Go to Patient Care and Health Information then Diseases and Conditions
Medline Plus (US National Library of Medicine)
Health topics, find Patient handouts
Public Health Agency of Canada
Diseases and conditions

Google and Google Scholar - LOOK at the URL for addresses that contain .gov / .edu / .org -- These MAY contain more reliable information than a .com site.

Google
Do a search on your topic and click on TOOLS at the top, to limit by date.
Go to ADVANCED SEARCH to limit other ways, for example, to government sites by limiting to .gov
Google Scholar
After your initial search you can limit by date on the left.

HELP!

Taryn the librarian

Gilbert Bede (librarian)

Other librarians that can help with finding, evaluating and citing resources.

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URL: https://libguides.okanagan.bc.ca/hca
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Subject Areas: Health Care Assistant (HCA)

Tags: caregivers, health, health care assistant

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