Nursing
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JHC and HPH register here.
evidence based practice
- Nursing Reference Center Plus (NRC+) - evidence-based information for nursing care.
- CINAHL's Evidence-Based Care Sheets - summations of relevant, high-quality evidence. To find these documents click on Evidence-Based Care Sheets in the blue bar at the top of the CINAHL screen
- Cochrane Library - includes a database of systematic reviews and meta-analyses which summarise and interpret the results of medical research.
- DynaMed -a clinical decision support tool which combines the latest evidence, guidelines and expert opinion (Point of Care)
databases
- CINAHL - a comprehensive source of nursing and allied health literature
- Nursing Reference Centre Plus - NRC+ includes all the NRC content plus: Evidence-based videos (250+) - A new focus on risk and leadership management - New continuing education topics.
diseases and conditions
ebooks and ejournals
Library Catalogue lists which you can limit by ebooks, ejournals, library etc.
ejournals
There are over 30 journals in the journal catalogue (AtoZ) relating to Nursing. To limit the full list to a relevant interest, navigate to the Full List and click on the Subject tab > Medical & Health Sciences, and choose your subject. Following are some popular journals. You may wish to create alerts to your favourite journals from the journal home page.
ebooks
medication information
patient education
- eTG Complete (Therapeutic Guidelines) - over 50 Australian patient information sheets and print-friendly PDFs.
- HealthInsite - provides consumers and health professionals easy access to information ranging from daily health needs, such as nutrition, to information related to life events, such as having a baby.
- Nursing Reference Center Plus- The Patient Education tab provides a specific location to browse for evidence-based patient handouts. NRC contains over 4,000 patient handouts.
continuing education
- Ausmed - A few free courses and CPD to be gained
- Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) - the organisation responsible for the implementation of the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme across Australia.
- FAQ: CPD FAQs for nurses and midwives - The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) Continuing Professional Development FAQs for Nurses and Midwives
- Nursing Reference Center Plus- At the Continuing Education tab there is a list of topics. You will need to register to access the modules which include course materials, an interactive review and a test.
- User Guides & Tutorials - developed to provide training for specific RHCL resources, including; How to use the Cochrane Library, MIMS, BMJ Best Practice, and Ebsco's Medline and CINAHL.
images
- DynaMed - contains images which are used to explain visual clinical issues and to illustrate important clinical procedures.
mobile resources
internet resources and links
- AHPRA - The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency implements the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme across Australia.
- Australian College of Nursing - a peak professional body representing nurses across Australia; an innovative provider of clinical specialty development and postgraduate nursing education
- BestBETs BETs were developed in the Emergency Department of Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK, to provide rapid evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions, using a systematic approach to reviewing the literature. BETs take into account the shortcomings of much current evidence, allowing physicians to make the best of what there is. Although BETs initially had an emergency medicine focus, there are a significant number of BETs covering cardiothoracics, nursing, primary care and paediatrics.
- Cardiac Auscultation
- Centre for Clinical Effectiveness (CCE)
- Caresearch - Relevant evidence and quality information in palliative care
- ECG Learning Center
- ECG Library - This is a collection of ECG recordings.
- GIN (Guidelines International Network) - Includes sites which permit free access to published guidelines. Scroll down on Home page. (ECRI, NICE Evidence, TRIP database, SIGN-HIS, WHO)
- Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing
- Health Professional Channel - provides free elearning antenatal, postnatal and paediatric courses.
- Learn Heart and Lung Sounds
- Nursing Center
- Nursing One
- Oncology Nursing Society (ONS)
- Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia
- The Australian Nursing & Midwifery Federation
- Up-To-Date - Patient Information - provides free access to comprehensive patient information on medical conditions and treatment options.