Nursing Resources

NURSING SOURCES
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Henry G. Bennett Memorial Library
SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY

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REFERENCE SOURCES

Search the reference collection for brief facts, biographical information, addresses, telephone numbers, statistical information, articles in encyclopedias, general and subject, on all aspects of human knowledge. Much information is included in the general encyclopedias, such as Compton's, Academic American, or World Book. However, more specialized information is included in subject encyclopedias. Additional information can be found in these sources:

General Nursing Resources

R 610.7903 Sn5h	Historical Encyclopedia of Nursing This book contains articles on important nurses in history, the practice of nursing in different periods of history, nursing in major wars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, nursing in different groups, such as native american nursing and african-american nursing. It also includes different organizations associated with nursing, such as the Red Cross, Navy Nurse Corps.
R 610.730103 P87d2	A Dictionary of Nursing Theory and Research The purpose of this dictionary is "to provide a handy compilation of definitions and discussions of terms that are commonly encountered in the nursing science literature."
R 610.7307203 En1f	Encyclopedia of Nursing Research The primary audience for this encyclopedia are graduate students in nursing and nurse researchers. This encyclopedia contains a listing of nursing research journals, a list of nursing acronyms, articles on national professional organizations, major diseases/disorders that nurses come into contact with, and terms and concepts familiar to nurses.

General Nursing Handbooks, Procedures

R 610.7343 N93s	Nurse's Illustrated Handbook of Home Health Procedures This book is very helpful for nurses involved in home health. It contains procedures for bandaging, sterilizing procedures, giving injections, terminally ill care, catheters care, pain management, nutrition, oral drug administration, home safety assessment, electrolyte testing, taking vital signs. It contains more than 200 procedures, some basic, some specialized, It is organized alphabetically, with more that 350 illustrations and charts.
R 610.73 C72a	Ambulatory Care Procedures for the Nurse Practitioner This book gives diagnostic testing and procedures patients that can walk in under their own power. It gives diagnostic testing and procedures for the care of: skin care, such as fishhook, tick, and cyst removal; musculoskeletal procedures, such as splinting and taping; procedures to care for the head, eyes, ears, nose and mouth; procedures to care for the cardiovascular and respiratory systems; and gastremoval procedures.
R 610.73 H46w3	Wound Care. Clinical Guide. This book gives information on wound care and prevention, different wound care products, and additional dressings and products such as gauze dressings, skin cleansers, skin sealants, and wound cleansers and deodorizers.
R 610.73 N93a4	Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: A Guide to Planning Care This book is an aid to helping the practicing nurse or nursing student make a nursing diagnosis and write a care plan with ease. It is divided into three sections: Nursing diagnosis and the nursing process, guide to nursing diagnoses, and guide to planning care. It lists all nursing diagnoses approved by the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA).
R 610.73 J63h9	Handbook for Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing This book "puts the power of the authoritative 'Brunner and Suddarth's Textbook' in the palm of your hand! It presents need-to-know information on the 180 diseases and disorders that are most commonly encountered in the hospital and community settings." It presents need-to-know information in an outline format. Each entry has a general overview of the disease process, most common clinical manifestations, main diagnostic evaluation methods, medical management, and nursing management. The handbook is completely cross referenced to the Brunner and Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, 9th edition.
R 610.73 So6p5	Pocket Companion for Black and Matassarin-Jacobs Medical-Surgical Nursing: Clinical Management for Continuity of Care This book "was developed as a quick reference guide for nurses and nursing students in the clinical setting based on content from Medical-Surgical Nursing: Clinical Management for Continuity of Care5th Edition, edited by Black and Matassarin-Jacobs. Information on more than 325 adult medical-surgical disorders is included and organized in a format closely following the main textbook."
R 610.736 N93s	Nurse's Handbook of Alternative & Complementary Therapies This book gives information on over 100 alternative therapies for diseases and disorders. With this handbook, the nurse will be able to ask patients about their use of alternative therapies and be able to respond to their therapies. In this book are commonly asked questions and their authoritative answers.
R 616.0756 K24h4	Handbook of Laboratory And Diagnostic Tests With Nursing Implications "This quick reference provides quick, pertinent information on laboratory and diagnostic tests." Covers more than 420 laboratory and diagnostic tests.
R 616.025 G91g	Quick Reference to Triage This book, published by Lippincott, contains in part 1 a guide to the triage process, and Part II covers triage guidelines for different ailments and disorders, such as: abdominal pain, burns, chest pain, domestic violence, eye injuries, headache, infectious diseases, rashes and more. part III covers "Pearls of Triage Wisdom". Part IV covers other guidelines beyond triage, such as customer service, and telephone triage.

Nursing Handbooks for Different Patient Types

R 610.7362 M85b4	Mosby's Pediatric Nursing Reference This book contains information about frequently encountered medical and surgical conditions found in the pediatric population, such as: anorexia nervosa, asthma, burns, croup, cystic fibrosis, fractures, hemophilia, Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, lead poisoning, other poisoning, Reyes' syndrome, scoliosis, and suicide. Part 2 covers pediatric diagnostic tests and procedures. The appendixes cover nursing assessments, growth and development, immunizations, taking blood pressure, laboratory values, and abbreviations.
R 610.73678 Ollm5	Clinical Handbook Maternal-Newborn Nursing This small book provides information to guide maternal-newborn nursing care, from pregnancy through the postpartal and newborn stages. It includes care for the patient through all stages of pregnancy, care the the patient during admission, labor, time of birth, care for the at-risk patient, care for the normal and at-risk newborn.
610.7365 H19s	Handbook of Geriatric Nursing Care This book covers in an alphabetical format, more than 200 topics, including common disorders, treatments, procedures, and other critical topics affecting older adults.
R 610.7368 C79p2	Nurse's Clinical Guide: Psychiatric and Mental Health Care This book covers the basic mental disorders, and for each disorder, the communication strategies needed to communicate with the patient, different goals in treating the patient, possible medications, and family care.
R 610.73 P93r	Primary Care Across the Lifespan This book was written by a team of nurse practitioners. This book was intended to be comprehensive, and also readable and useful. This book contains discussions of common complaints, diseases, and wellness issues across the lifespan, using SOAPE format (subjective, objective, assessment, plan and evaluation).

Drug Handbooks

R 615.1 Sk3m	Mosby's Nursing Drug Reference This reference guide on prescription drugs was first published in 1988. It has listings and information on more than 1300 generic and 4500 trade drugs. For each drug given, it lists the pronunciation of the drug name, functional and chemical classifications, action (pharmacologic properties), uses of each drug, dosages, available forms (capsule, tablets, injections, creams, etc), side effects, instances when the drug should not be given, interactions, and nursing considerations.
R 615.1 SP7t	PDR Nurse's Drug Handbook This reference guide says on the cover "the information standard for prescription drugs and nursing considerations. The A-Z listing of drugs comprises the bulk of this manual. For each drug listed, it gives the action/kinetics, uses of the drug, contraindications, special concerns, side effects, how the drug is supplied, and dosages. A special section at the end of each drug is the nursing considerations section, which contains information on administration and storage of the drug, assessment of the drug, interventions, client/family teaching on the drug, and outcomes.
R 615.1 Sp7t	PDR Nurse's Drug Handbook This book, published by Physician's Desk Reference, contains information on prescription drugs. For each drug, it contains the category the drug is in, the drug classification (such as: neuromuscular blocking agent, antibiotic, narcotic). It also gives the uses of each drug, special concerns, side effects, drug interactions, dosage for adults, and a section called nursing considerations such as administration and storage, assessment and interventions, and client/family teaching.

General Health & Medical Sources

R 615.855 G12i17	Intravenous Medications This book claims to be "the number one IV drug reference for 25 years".
R 615.5071 C16m2	Mosby's Handbook of Patient Teaching This book is provided to give the patient information and education on home care management. It is written in an easy style for communicating to the patient. It covers a full range of diseases.
R 317.3 Un3s	Statistical Abstract of the United States Published by the United States government. Contains statistics on many current topics, including education, commerce, health, transportation
Internet	Health Resources at the Henry G. Bennett Memorial Library This is a bibliography of resources at the Henry G. Bennett Memorial Library and the Internet that pertain to health and medicine. It contains listing of reference sources, government documents, periodical databases that are useful for people interested in health topics. It is available at: http://www.se.edu/lib/health.htm
R 615.9 T84h	The Home Health Guide to Poisons and Antidotes This book is a guide to identifying, avoiding, and treating ingestion or absorption of toxic substances. This book gives descriptions of over 600 toxic substances. For each toxic substance it gives the symptoms and treatments for poisoning caused by ingestion or absorption. The back of the book contains several appendices: Appendix A contains a listing of home testing kits for toxic substances, Appendix B is a list of poison hotlines, Appendix C contains a list of newsletters on poisons, Appendix D contains a list of organizations, Appendix E contains poison education and information materials, Appendix F contains a listing of poisons by the type of symptoms they produce, Appendix G contains a list of regional Poison Control Centers, and Appendix H contains the toxicity ratings of poisons.
R 616 L26m	Mosby's Handbook of Diseases "This handbook contains information highlights for more than 350 diseases and conditions relevant to children and adults. Each disease and condition is organized in a succinct and consistent format so that you can immediately find essential information."

Anatomy Resources

R 611 N38a	Atlas of Human Anatomy Presents well-done illustrations of different sections of the body, such as the abdomen, head and neck, pelvis, upper and lower limb. It shows the bones and ligaments, muscles, nerves, lymph vessels, and veins of all parts of the body.
R 612 H88c	The Human Body: An Illustrated Guide to Its Structure, Function, and Disorders Contains over one thousand images which reveal the body's structures. Also included are illustrations and descriptions of the causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of many diseases and disorders.

Nursing Education and Careers

R 610. 73071173025 Of2n	Official Guide to Undergraduate and Graduate Nursing Schools This is the complete guide to all U.S. nursing schools, with more than 2000 accredited programs, and covering different degree levels, such as: Associate's, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctoral, Joint, Distance, and continuing education programs. Authored by the National League of Nursing.
R 610. 730790973025 R81s	RSP Funding for Nursing Students and Nursing This guide contains a list of: scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards, loans, forgivable loans, loan repayment programs, traineeships, and other funding programs set aside to support study, training, research, and creative activities for nursing students and nurses.
R 610.69Ex7h	Exploring Health Careers This guide contains a list of careers in the health field, such as: emergency room doctor, medical assistant, clinical nurse specialist, dietetic technician, biomedical engineer, nurse anesthetist, nurse assistant, nurse-midwife, nurse practitioner, occupational therapist, registered nurse, and psychiatrist.
R 331.702 En1c	Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance This set contains information on how to choose a career, profiles of major career fields, and information about many specific careers.

Alternative Medicine

R 615.5 F21	Family Guide to Natural Medicine Contains articles on many types of alternative medicine, such as: Homeopathy, Herbal Medicine, Native American Medicine, Reflexology, Chiropractic, Acupuncture, Ayurvedism, Vitamin Therapy and Yoga.
R 615.5303 G13k	Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine This set is designed to inform and educate readers about a wide variety of complementary therapies, herbal remedies, and treatments for prevalent conditions and diseases. Included are 157 therapies, 283 diseases/conditions, and 283 diseases
R 615.321 N62m	Physicians' Health Reference for Herbal Medicines Contains indexes of scientific and common names for herbs, grouping of herbs by their common uses, grouping of herbs by their therapeutic or medicinal category, herbs side effects index, drug/herb interactions guide, herb identification guide with color photographs of many herbs, and herbal monographs.

Circulating Nursing Books

610.7362 W55w6	Whaley & Wong's Nursing Care of Infants and Children
610.73678 M41L5	Maternity Nursing
610.7368 V42f4	Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
610.73 M46b5	Medical-Surgical Nursing: Clinical Management for Continuity of Care
610.73 B83s9	Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing
610.075 C22n7	Nursing Diagnosis: Application to Clinical Practice Section I of this book begins with the development of the nursing diagnosis and types and components of Nursing diagnosis. Section II is a manual of nursing diagnoses that has been accepted by the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association for specific disorders and diseases. Section III is a manual of collaborative problems.

PERIODICAL INDEXES

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COMPUTER INDEXES

FIRSTSEARCH

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FirstSearch is a service provided by OCLC. It is a collection of databases on many topics that is accessed through the Internet. FirstSearch contains the following databases that may be useful for finding information on the nursing:

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Article First
This database contains citations to articles that appear in journals in science, technology, social science, business and humanities, and popular culture. With almost 12,500 journals indexed, this is the largest journal database in the SE Library's collection. It covers from 1990 to the
present, and is updated daily.

ERIC
This has the entire ERIC database from 1966 to the present, and it is updated monthly. ERIC has journal articles from many education journals, and it also has ERIC documents, which consist of classroom guides, unpublished research, dissertations, lesson plans, and other items. ERIC covers all aspects of education, including: adult, career and vocational education, elementary and early childhood education, secondary education, higher education, assessment and evaluation, disabilities and gifted education, educational management, information and technology, language and linguistics, reading and communication, teacher and teacher education, and urban education. It has over 1 million records in the database.
Medline
This is a database that contains about 10 million records on the subject of medicine. It covers 3,500 periodicals on all aspects of medicine, including: clinical medicine, dentistry, experimental medicine, health services administration, nursing, nutrition, pathology, psychiatry, toxiology, and veterinary medicine. It covers 1965 to the present.

PapersFirst
Contains citations to papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses, and symposia. To be included the information must have been received by the British Document Supply Center. It covers from October 1993 and is updated monthly. It has over 2.3 million records and is updated 24 times a year.

Proceedings
Contains over 74,000 citations of every congress, symposium, conference, and workshop from all over the world that was received at the British Library from October 1993 to the present. This database is updated twice a week.

WilsonSelectPlus
Covers 800 periodicals from 1994 to the present. Contains records from: Applied Science & Technology Abstracts & Index, Art Abstracts & Index, Biography Index, Biological and Agricultural Abstracts & Index, Book Review Digest, Education Abstracts & Index, Essay & General Literature Index, General Science Abstracts & Index, Humanities Abstracts & Index, Index to Legal Periodicals and Books, Library Literature, Readers' Guide Abstracts & Index, Social Sciences Index & Abstracts, and Wilson Business Abstracts. It is updated weekly.

WorldCat
A database of over 52 million records of materials representing 400 languages, such as: books, magazines, films, slides, journals, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, videocassettes, audio-cassettes, computer data files, and computer programs, that have been cataloged by OCLC members worldwide. The records cover items from 1000 BC to the present, and this database is updated daily. If it has been written, it will be listed in this catalog.

Newsbank
Provides access to newspaper articles from the United States on current issues and events, medical topics, biographical articles and news reports about newsworthy people and groups, and fine arts reviews (art exhibits, books, movies, television programs, theater, and musical performances). To access Newsbank, click on the Newsbank image on the Southeastern Oklahoma State University Library homepage at http://www.se.edu/lib

EBSCOHost
A series of databases to periodical literature.
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Academic Search Elite
Academic Search Elite provides full text for nearly 1,490 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for over 2,670 journals. Over 1,700 journals are peer reviewed. Full text backfiles go as far back as January of 1990, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as January of 1984. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.

Business Source Elite
Business Source Elite provides full text from over 1,020 journals covering business, management, economics, banking, finance, accounting and much more. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 1,560 journals. This database contains popular business publications such as Business Week, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review, and hundreds of scholarly, peer reviewed journals. Also included is Wall Street Words, a dictionary of financial terms, linked directly to words within the citations and full text. Full text backfiles go as far back as January of 1990, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as January of 1984. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.

Health Source:Nursing/Academic Edition
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 480 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 510 journals. This product offering also includes USP Pharmacopoeia DI: Volume II Advice for the Lay Patient and Stedman's Medical Dictionary providing users with access to terminology of genetics, oncology, pediatrics, pulmonology, emergency medicine, bacteriology, and laboratory medicine.

Health Source: Consumer Edition
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide. This resource provides access to nearly 300 full text, consumer health periodicals, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Fit Pregnancy, Harvard Health Letter, HealthFacts, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, Women's Health Weekly, and many others. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for nearly 300 periodicals. Also included in this database is searchable full text for nearly 1,200 health-related pamphlets; 20 health reference books, including books published by the People's Medical Society; 7,000 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish); and Stedman's Medical Dictionary, which provides users with access to terminology of genetics, oncology, pediatrics, pulmonology, emergency medicine, bacteriology, and laboratory medicine. In addition, this database includes Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs. This full text database covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, women's health, etc. Many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1985.

Newspaper Source
Newspaper Source provides selected full text for over 180 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns and other sources as well as indexing and abstracts for national newspapers. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

PsychINFO
PsycINFO contains more than 1.8 million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which dates back to the 1800s, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 30 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year.

PERIODICALS

Basement	American Journal of Nursing A journal that has articles on medical topics that effect nurses. HOLDINGS: 1974-present
Basement	American Journal of Public Health Published monthly by the American Public Health Association, this journal keeps its members informed on the latest scientific and research developments in public health. It covers topics of health education, administration, epidemiology, health promotion. It is the only publication that contains original research focusing primarily on the science of prevention in populations. HOLDINGS: 1927-2004
Basement	Applied Nursing Research This quarterly journal is published by W.B. Saunders. It focuses on "uniting the efforts of all professional nurses to advance nursing as a research-based profession." HOLDINGS: 2001-2003
Basement	AWHONN Lifelines This journal is published by the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses, and "reports on women's and newborn's health trends and issues relevant to clinical nursing." HOLDINGS: 1997-present
Basement	Critical Care Nurse This bimonthly journal is published by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. HOLDINGS: 1998-2004
Basement	Image: Journal of Nursing Scholarship This quarterly journal is published by is published by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. HOLDINGS: 1997
Basement	JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association `Published weekly by the American Medical Association, it has as an objective "to promote the science and art of medicine and the betterment of public health." It contains results of studies done on health and medical topics, plus editorials, book reviews, and review articles on medical topics. This journal is meant for physicians, and the reading can get technical. Most of the articles are written by MD's and so they are not the best reading.
Basement	JOGNN: Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing This journal is published six times a year by Sage Science Press for the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses. This is a "peer-reviewed journal...[that] reflects practice, research, policies, opinions, and trends in the care of women, childbearing families, and newborns. JOGNN presents the clinical scholarship that is the driving force behind nursing practice." HOLDINGS: 1977-2005
Basement	JONA: Journal of Nursing Administration Published 11 times a year, this journal publishes articles of interest to nursing administrators. HOLDINGS: 1998-2003
Basement	JONA's Healthcare Law, Ethics, and Regulation A journal that is published quarterly by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, and contains research articles and editorials on issues related to ethics, the terminally ill, regulations and healthcare law. JONA means Journal of Nursing Administration. HOLDINGS: 1999-2004
Basement	Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing This quarterly journal is published by Blackwell Publishing for the Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Nurses. This journal "publishes original manuscripts from a wide range of contributors who are working with children and adolescents and their families in a broad variety of settings. The intent is to reflect the spectrum of issues relevant to the practice, education, and research of child and adolescent psychiatric and mental health nurses." HOLDINGS: 2001-present
Basement	Journal of Gerontological Nursing THis monthly journal is published by Slack Inc., and contains articles related to the care or older adults. HOLDINGS: 1998 2004
Basement	Journal of Nursing Scholarship Published quarterly, this is an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing and is published by Blackwell Publishing. HOLDINGS: 2000-2005
Basement	MCN: The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing Published bimonthly by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, this journal publishes articles on issues related to the treatment of pregnancy.
Basement	New England Journal of Medicine Published weekly by the Massachusetts Medical Society, contains results of studies done on health topics, plus editorials, book reviews, and review articles on medical topics. Most of the articles are written by MD's and so they are not the best reading. HOLDINGS: 1989-present
Basement	Nursing THis is a monthly journal that is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins and explores issues and topics related to nursing. HOLDINGS: 1996-present
Basement	Nursing Forum This is a quarterly journal that publishes articles that "explore, explicate, or report issues, ideas, trends, and innovations that shape the nursing profession." HOLDINGS 2005-present
Basement	Nursing Made Incredibly Easy This journal is published bimonthly by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. The mission of this publication "is to meet the ongoing educational needs of nurses through the publication of information that presents challenging clinical concepts in a refreshingly original, easily understood format that engages nurses and gives them confidence. The journal's format is designed to guide nurses through the most difficult concepts by making learning fun and effective." HOLDINGS:2004-present
Basement	Nursing Management This is a monthly publication that is endorsed by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. The mission statement of this publication is: "to provide strategic professional information and services that nurses need to excel as healthcare leaders." HOLDINGS: 1996-present
Basement	Nursing Outlook This journal is publish six times a year by Mosby for the American Academy of Nursing. It publishes articles "related to nursing education, practice, research or health care policy and delivery." HOLDINGS: 1998-2004
Basement	Nursing Research This is a bimonthly journal that is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins a publisher of many nursing journals. It is the official journal of the Eastern Nursing Research Society and the Western Institute of Nursing. HOLDINGS: 1996- 2005
Basement	Public Health Reports A bi-monthly journal published by the U.S. Public Health Service that contains good scholarly articles on issues related to health. HOLDINGS: 1987-present
Basement	RN Published monthly, this magazine contains articles on nursing issues. HOLDINGS: 1996-2003
Basement	Safety and Health Published by the National Safety Council, this monthly publication has articles on safety and health in the workplace and at home.

VERTICAL FILE

The Vertical File cabinets on the first floor (by the Juvenile section) contain folders on numerous environmental topics such as: Cancer, Bacteriology, Immunization, heart-diseases, gastrointestinal system-diseases, hypertension, diseases, herpes, health, myocardial infarction, medical care, medicaid.

U.S. GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS

Government documents are materials such as reports, handbooks, manuals, studies, congressional hearings about many different Subjects. The collection is arranged by the department of government. Most items in the government documents area can be accessed by subject by using the computer catalog for books. The Government Documents collection is housed on floor 2A.

The Department of Health and Human Services has most of the items that are on the subject of medicine and diseases. Some selected items are:

HE 20.6210 Vital Statistics of the United States
Contains birth statistics by race, sex, age and other subject areas. Also contains death statistics by age, race, sex, and cause of death.

HE 20.6213 Health, United States
This annual publication presents national trends in health in the United States. Contains statistics on many subjects, such as life expectancy, National Health care expenditures, national Insurance Coverage, Injury related visits to Hospital ER's, plus death rates for many diseases.

HE 20:7009
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Published by the Centers for Disease Control, this publication contains research on many health topics, and also provides much useful information and statistics.

HE 22.18 Health Care Financing Review
This publication helps readers to understand the U.S. health care system and the Medicare and Medicaid Programs. It does this by providing information and analysis on a broad range of health care financing and delivery issues. This quarterly journal is published by the Health Care Financing Administration, which is a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Advance Data
This publication comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It contains results of studies or research done on different health topics

HE 20.3 013.6 NCRR Reporter
This Bimonthly publication comes from the National Center for Research Resources. It publishes articles on new biomedical technologies being developed in the United States.

HE 20.3031 Medicine for the Public (Layman) Series
These are a series of pamphlets published by the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health. There are pamphlets on such things as: Brian Aging and Dementia, Cancer, Depression and Manic-Depressive Illness, Blood Transfusions, high blood pressure, arthritis, alzheimer's disease, allergic diseases, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, and epilepsy.

HE 20.3559 Environmental Health Perspectives
This is the monthly journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and is published by the Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It contains articles related to environmental health, such as: school children with asthma, pesticide use and birth defects, drinking water contaminants, air pollution toxicity, and health problems of DDT use in Mexico.

HE 20.6209 Vital and Health Statistics
These are a series of reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They contain statistics and other information on such thing as: illness, unintentional injuries, disability, and use of hospital and other medical services.

INTERNET RESOURCES ON NURSING

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HE 20.6210	Vital Statistics of the United States Contains birth statistics by race, sex, age and other subject areas. Also contains death statistics by age, race, sex, and cause of death.
HE 20.6213	Health, United States This annual publication presents national trends in health in the United States. Contains statistics on many subjects, such as life expectancy, National Health care expenditures, national Insurance Coverage, Injury related visits to Hospital ER's, plus death rates for many diseases.
HE 20:7009	Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Published by the Centers for Disease Control, this publication contains research on many health topics, and also provides much useful information and statistics.
HE 22.18	Health Care Financing Review This publication helps readers to understand the U.S. health care system and the Medicare and Medicaid Programs. It does this by providing information and analysis on a broad range of health care financing and delivery issues. This quarterly journal is published by the Health Care Financing Administration, which is a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
	Advance Data This publication comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It contains results of studies or research done on different health topics
HE 20.3 013.6	NCRR Reporter This Bimonthly publication comes from the National Center for Research Resources. It publishes articles on new biomedical technologies being developed in the United States.
HE 20.3031	Medicine for the Public (Layman) Series These are a series of pamphlets published by the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health. There are pamphlets on such things as: Brian Aging and Dementia, Cancer, Depression and Manic-Depressive Illness, Blood Transfusions, high blood pressure, arthritis, alzheimer's disease, allergic diseases, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, and epilepsy.
HE 20.3559	Environmental Health Perspectives This is the monthly journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and is published by the Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It contains articles related to environmental health, such as: school children with asthma, pesticide use and birth defects, drinking water contaminants, air pollution toxicity, and health problems of DDT use in Mexico.
HE 20.6209	Vital and Health Statistics These are a series of reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They contain statistics and other information on such thing as: illness, unintentional injuries, disability, and use of hospital and other medical services.