Trailblazer Research Guide
Medicine and Nursing Trailblazer
Medicine and Nursing Trailblazer
Dewey Decimal Call Numbers
- 610's
General Information
- Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine R 616.003 G151
- Encyclopedia of Family Health R 610.3 E56
- Physicians Desk Reference R 615.1 P578d
- Physicians Desk Reference Nurse's Handbook R 615.1 P578
- Merck Manual of Medical Information R 616.024 M555
- Professional Guide to Diseases R 616 P963
- Alternative Health and Medicine Encyclopedia R 615.53 M378
- Mosby's Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health Dictionary R 610.3 M894
- Stedman's Medical Dictionary R 610.3 S812
- Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary R 610.3 T113
- Anatomy of the Human Body R 611 G779
- Colour Atlas of Human Anatomy R 611 M167
- Complete Drug Reference R 615.1 C758
- Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses R 615.1 D318
- Laboratory Test Handbook R 616.07 L119
- Clinical Guide to Laboratory Tests R 616.075 C641
- Health Care Almanac R 610.3 H434
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-IV R 616.89075 D536
- Mental Health Disorders Sourcebook R 616.89 B441
- Historical Encyclopedia of Nursing R 610.7309 S673
- Encyclopedia of Gerontology R 612.67 E 56
Statistical Information
- Statistical Abstract of the United States R 317.3 U58s
Biographical Information
- Dictionary of Scientific Biography R 509.22 D545
- Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health R 610.3 M647
- Current Biography R 920 C97
- Encyclopedia of World Biography R 920.02 E56
- Blacks in Science and Medicine R 509.2 S189
- A to Z of Women in Science and Math R 509.22 Y81
- American Women in Science: 1950 to the Present: A Biographical Dictionary R 500.8209 B155
Finding Books Using the Online Catalog
Subject headings
- There are too many subjects to delineate, but here are some guidelines as to how to proceed.
- Medical discipline e.g. Pediatrics, Gerontology, Oncology
- Nursing
- Nursing-United States-History
- Disease Name e.g. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Malaria, Hodgkins disease, Sexually transmitted diseases, etc.
- Organ--Cancer e.g. Lungs--cancer, Liver--cancer, etc.
- Type of Nursing e.g. Pediatric nursing, Geriatric nursing,
- Type of Care e.g. Palliative care, Critical care, Coronary care
Keywords
- Use keywords describing the topic you are researching describing the area of medicine, disease, type of treatment, type of care, drugs, demographics, etc.
Databases to Use for Finding Articles
- Academic Search Premier
- Academic Universe (Medical)
- ArticleFirst
- Health Source: Consuer Ed.
- Health Source: Academic Ed.
- MEDLINE
- Physicians Desk Reference (Not available off-campus)
Internet Resources
- MEDLINE Plus http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus
- PUBMED http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
- Centers For Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/
- National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine http://nccam.nih.gov/
- BUBL Link: Medical Sciences http://bubl.ac.uk/link/linkbrowse.cfm?menuid=8180
- Nursing http://bubl.ac.uk/link/linkbrowse.cfm?menuid=8242
- INFOMINE: Biological, Agricultural, and Medical Sciences search page http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?category=bioag
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