Nursing Research: Topic Resources

Click on a topic below for links to reliable resources.

Anatomy Career/Professional Information Community Health Culture Competency

Disease Overviews Infectious Disease Leadership / Management Medical Images

NCLEX - RN Practice Nursing Research Pharmacology

Anatomy

• Anatomy Textbooks & Atlases
• Anatomy & Physiology Training Modules
• eSkeletons
• Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body
• Inner Body
• Medline Plus: Anatomy

Career/Professional Information

  Nursing

• American Nurses Association
• NJ Board of Nursing
• New Jersey League for Nursing
• Registered Nurse Outlook

Healthcare Directories

•  Licensed Health Facilities in New Jersey 
•  MEDLINE Plus Directory listings

Hospital Directories

•   Hospital Compare 
•   Hospital Ranking 
•   NJ Hospital Performance Report Card

 Physician Directories

•  AMA DoctorFinder
•  American College of Surgeons 
•  Physician Compare 

 Directories of Healthcare Services, Facilities, Clinics, Surgi-centers, Specialized Hospitals

•  Find NJ Hospitals, Ambulatory/Outpatient Facility or Surgery Center 
•  Health Centers and Clinics 
•  Home Health Compare 
•  NJ Long Term Care, Assisted Living, Nursing Homes 
•  Nursing Home Compare      

Community Health

• Clinical Resources
• FastStats Topics of Public Health Importance
• HealthFinder.gov
• Nurses Guide to Clinical Procedures

Culture Competency

• Transcultural Nursing Titles from the EBook Collection
• EthnoMED Culture 
• Consumer Health / Patient Information in Several Languages 
• National Alliance for Hispanic Health 
• Culturally Competent Nursing Care

 Dictionaries & Translation Sites

• Health Information in Multiple Languages
• MedlinePlus in Spanish
• The Merck Manual Home Health Handbook in Spanish

Disease Overviews

• Diseases & Conditions (CDC)  

Infectious Disease

• BioMed Infectious Disease
• Clinical Microbiology - titles in the EBook collection
• Centers for Disease Control

Leadership/Management

• Leadership & Management in Nursing - titles in the EBook  Collection
• Nursing Care Plans

Medical Images

• Health Education Assets Library
• Images from the History of Medicine
• Public Health Image Library

NCLEX-RN Practice

• NCLEX-RN Practice Questions
• Search the Library Catalog for Print NCLEX-RN titles

Nursing Research

• Clinical Queries a PubMed Tutorial
• PubMed Tutorial  

Pharmacology

• Drug Pronunciation Merck   
• FDA Approved Drug Products
• Institute for Safe Medication Practices
• Merck Manual Professional Version
• PDR: Prescribers Digital Reference