Nursing Resources  

Basic Reference – Contains encyclopedias, handbooks, and manuals that provide basic or background information on a topic. Use this tab when you need the symptoms of a disease or a definition of a word.

Journal Articles – Contains abstracting and indexing databases recommended for Nursing. Use this tab when you need scholarly articles for a research paper or group project.

Books – Contains library catalogue information. Use this tab when you are looking for books, videos, periodicals, or government documents.

Websites - Contains links to recommended quality websites that will be of use to nursing students and faculty.

Tutorials and Guides - Contains tutorials and guides that can help guide your literature search process and help with locating, evaluating, and utilizing what you find.

EBP Toolkit - Contains resources and links related to Evidence Based Practice.

Writing Guides - Provides information on writing within the nursing dicipline.

Consumer Health - Provides resources for health consumers and can be good source of patient education materials.

This library guide points you in the direction of some basic library resources for completing library assignments and writing papers in this subject area. Many of these resources are available from the library's homepage at http://www.lib.ipfw.edu/, so you may want to bookmark both the homepage and this guide.

Here are some resources to get you started:

• Doing Library Research
• PICO Flow Chart (PDF)
• EBP Toolkit
• Is your Nursing Article Scholarly
• Helmke Library self-guided tour
• IPFW Department of Nursing