Nursing

Note: To access databases available only to Trocaire College members from off-campus, you will need to log in using your email username and password (follow the Off-Campus Login Instructions for assistance). Databases marked as OPEN are freely accessible.

Journal Databases

Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile is the comprehensive premier source for authoritative, peer-reviewed full-text scholarly content across the academic disciplines.

Academic Search Elite
Academic Search Elite contains full-text for more than 2,100 journals, nearly 150 journals have PDF images dating back to 1985.

CINAHL Complete
CINAHL Complete provides access to literature in nursing and 17 allied health disciplines from 1937 to present. The database indexes over 5,000 journal in the nursing field and health related fields. It also offers access to full-text and abstracted articles, evidence-based care sheets, and more.
Use this Toolkit for tips on how to use CINAHL Complete

Directory of Open Access Journals
Select from free, quality peer-reviewed full-text scholarly research journals in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.

EBSCOhost
A large collection of scholarly and popular articles in a broad range of subjects.

Gale
Gale hosts a number of databases that cover a wide array of topics including both scholarly and popular articles.

Health Administration Database
Health Administration Database includes journal articles, and dissertations in the field.

Health & Medical Collection
This database offers reliable, comprehensive journal coverage of clinical and biomedical topics, consumer health, health administration and more.

Health and Medicine
Health and Medicine includes information created specifically for students, knowledgeable consumer health researchers, and health care professionals. This database is the perfect resource for up-to-date information on a complete range of healthcare topics.

Health Business Elite
This database, updated daily, provides comprehensive journal content detailing all aspects of healthcare administration and other non-clinical aspects of healthcare institution management.

Health Policy Reference Center
Health Policy Reference Center (HPRC) offers articles from hundreds of full-text publications, including industry-leading academic journals, monographs, magazines, trade publications and other valuable resources. In addition, it provides hundreds of thousands of records with subject headings from an extensive thesaurus.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It also features the AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.

MEDLINE
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings, and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.

Nursing and Allied Health
Nursing and Allied Health provides access to academic journals and other reference content covering all aspects of the nursing profession, from direct patient care to health care administration. The database offers current and authoritative content for professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.

Phlebotomy Today (OPEN)
Phlebotomy Today continues the Center for Phlebotomy Education’s tradition of providing quality information to the phlebotomy community.

ProQuest Central
A large collection of scholarly and popular articles on a broad range on subjects.

ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health
This database offers reliable, comprehensive coverage of the fields of nursing and allied health including journals (many full-text and peer-reviewed), dissertations, reference books and more.

PsycARTICLES
PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals.

Psychology
Psychology provides access to academic journals and magazines that cover the study of emotions, personality, and the human mind. The database offers content of interest to both researchers and general users.

Psychology Database
This database provides abstracts and indexing for key Psychology titles, many which are available in full-text. Coverage ranges from behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial and social psychology, along with personality, psychobiology and psychometrics.

Public Health Database
This database delivers access to over 800 Public Health publications with over 500 in full-text. Publication include journals, news, trade publications, reports, dissertations and more.

PubMed (OPEN)
PubMed® comprises more than 30 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.

eBook Databases

eBook Clinical Collection from EBSCO
This eBook collection was built specifically to support clinical professionals, researchers, and students of medical disciplines.

eBooks from EBSCOhost
Over 4,000 eBooks in science, medicine, technology and liberal arts. In addition to new books, this database contains NetLibrary titles.

Health Reference Series Online
Each volume is comprised of a wide variety of articles from authoritative sources to inform and educate readers about a disease or disorder, giving comprehensive information needed to understand a particular medical condition.

R2 Digital Library
R2 Digital Library is an eBook platform featuring a comprehensive collection of eBooks for allied health, health informatics, surgical technology, radiologic technology, massage, and nursing. You can create an individual login (top right corner of login page) to save your bookmarks, citations, references, and images.
View this short video on using R2 Digital Library.

Reference Databases

AHFS Consumer Medication Information
AHFS Consumer Medication Information is published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Updated monthly, the AHFS includes more than a thousand drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers.

Credo Reference
An excellent place to begin your research on an unfamiliar topic.

Bioethics Information Resources (OPEN)
A collection of resources from the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Includes links to PubMed, NLM Catalog, Medline Plus and the National Human Genome Research Institute.

DailyMed (OPEN)
A collection of drug listings as submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

Merck Manual: Consumer Version (OPEN)
Provides information on medical topics, symptoms, drugs, procedures, news and more, written in everyday language.

Merck Manual: Professional Version (OPEN)
Provides health care practitioners and students with practical information on “what to do” to diagnosis and treat disorders or conditions. The manual provides information on medical topics, symptoms, drugs, procedures, news, and more.

National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) (OPEN)
Standards from the Joint Commission, the accrediting organization that certifies nearly 21,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States.

National Library of Medicine, US (OPEN)
NLM is the world’s largest biomedical library that makes available a vast print collection and produces electronic information resources for healthcare professionals, consumers and researchers. The site includes databases, guides tutorials, search engines and much more. Here you will find PubMed, Medline Plus, Open I, Toxnet, Clinical Trials and other resources.

Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) (OPEN)
A collection of information and resources for nurses addressing the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to improve the quality and safety of healthcare systems.

Video Databases

Films on Demand
A database that hosts documentaries, educational and skill videos. Subjects include: Hospitality, Nursing, Imaging, Anatomy, Human Resources, and Theban Plays (Sophocles)
Note: Use Microsoft Edge or Mozilla Firefox browsers. Films may not play in the Google Chrome browser.

JOMI
JOMI provides surgical procedures offering incision-to-closure, long-form, high-quality, surgeon-narrated didactic experiences. JOMI is used by surgical technologists, and other health-related professionals to help them prepare for cases and learn about advances in surgical procedures. Most of JOMI content is focused on general surgery, orthopaedics, orthopaedic trauma, neurosurgery, and head and neck surgery.

Important: You must create an account to use this database:

When you click on “click here” it will take you to JOMI
On “Create an Account”, fill in your information

You MUST use your Trocaire email to create your account

Click “Create Account”
At the Institutional screen, type in Trocaire College
Select the “User Type” from the menu
Click on the green “Create Account” button
Once you create an account, the next time you visit the site, “sign in” is on the top right corner of the website

Nursing Assessment DVD
Created exclusively for Trocaire nursing students, this video covers maternal assessment, pediatric assessment, and newborn characteristics and reflexes. To view the video, log in with your Trocaire Moodle username and password.

Subject Librarian

Michele Brancato, MLS

Contact info
Phone: (716) 827-2447
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