Nursing and Health Sciences
Carrie Fry is the librarian for Nursing and Health Sciences.
Office: 130, Main floor of the library
Phone: 206-281-2124
Email: cfry@spu.edu
Core Resources
- CINAHL Plus - offers information on nursing, the nursing profession, and allied health topics, including nutrition, physical therapy, and occupational therapy. Its coverage extends from 1965 to the present.(SPU Only)
- Nursing & Allied Health Source - offers information on nursing, the nursing profession, and allied health topics, and provides nursing content from the Joanna Briggs Institute and video content. Its coverage extends from 1986 to the present.(SPU Only)
- MEDLINE via EBSCOhost - MEDLINE covers all areas of healthcare, including medicine, dentistry, nursing, psychiatry, and nutrition. MEDLINE via EBSCOHOST offers some full text and the ability to search PsycINFO simultaneously.(SPU Only)
Additional Resources
- Cochrane Databases - provides a bibliography of controlled trials identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration and others, as part of an international effort to hand-search the world's journals and create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews.(SPU Only)
- ERIC via EBSCOHost - This education-resource database includes some full-text documents and the ERIC thesaurus, and it allows users to search PsycInfo simultaneously, limit results to SPU holdings, and link to ILL services.(SPU Only)
- - ERIC also covers nursing topics such as nursing education and the nursing role in K-12 education.
- Google Scholar - This search engine searches for scholarly research across many disciplines and sources. By starting your Google search from the SPU pages, the results will link to SPU-owned full-text.
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic - provides scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which offers generic-drug patient education sheets.(SPU Only)
- PsycINFO - This comprehensive research-based psychology database is produced by the American Psychological Association and indexes journal articles, books, chapters, and dissertations from 1887 to the present. It focuses on peer-reviewed literature in behavior science and mental health.(SPU Only)
- PsycTESTS - provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments as well as descriptive information about the test and its development and administration.(SPU Only)
- Academic Search Premier - This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. Its coverage ranges from 1984 to the present, with some back files (to 1975) and searchable cited references available.(SPU Only)
- Alt Health Watch - focuses on alternative medicine topics, with full text available for over 180 international and often peer-reviewed journals and reports, and excerpts from a variety of other text formats. Its coverage extends from 1984 to the present.(SPU Only)
- MedicLatina -- Spanish Language - MedicLatina is a collection of medical research and investigatory journals from Latin American and Spanish publishers. This Spanish language database contains full text for 130 peer-reviewed medical journals in native Spanish.(SPU Only)
- Physical Education Index - covers all aspects of physical education, including health, biomechanics, and sports medicine. Its coverage extends from 1970 to the present.(SPU Only)