TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY Pickler Memorial Library Truman State University

Dimensions of Professional Nursing

Books:

Library Catalog:  Use the Library of Congress Subject Heading:  Nursing ethics

MOBIUS:  Use the National Library of Medicine (MeSH) Heading:  Ethics, nursing

You can always use keyword searching in any of the Library Catalogs, for example:  technology and nursing

 

Journal Articles:

There are several very good databases for searching for scholarly articles on nursing ethics.  Here are the best:

Bioethics Literature Database
        BELIT provides access to about 320.000 records from the integrated German, American and French databases. It is an extensive bibliographic directory of literature in the area of bioethics unique world wide, containing references to monographs, grey literature, legal documents, journal articles, newspaper articles and book contributions.

EBSCOhost databases of particular use for health and medicine are:
        Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL)1983+
        In print  1977-1997:   General Collection RT 41 C842
Contains indexing and abstracts for over over 1700 current nursing and health journals.  Also provides access to Pre-CINAHL, a companion database featuring rotating bibliographic information about new journal articles as they are being assigned indexed.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition.  Provides nearly 540 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.  Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 570 journals.

JSTOR. Archive of scholarly journals. Truman campus has access to the Arts & Sciences I and II collections, Ecology & Botany collection, and General Science collection.

MEDLINE, 1965+
        On the Web through FirstSearch.
        On the Web through
PubMed, the NLM free public site.
Indexes more than 3,500 journals published internationally in all fields of medicine.  Produced by the National Library of Medicine.  

Google Scholar

PubMed Central
Database of about 50 free online medical journals, searchable by keyword.

Print Indexes

Bibliography of Bioethics.   1975+
Ref R 724 B53
Lists English-language books, essays in books, journal and newspaper articles, court decisions, bills and laws, and audiovisual materials concerning ethical, legal, and public policy aspects of health related topics.

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