The following sites may be of some interest as alternatives:
Physicians Resources
[ South Carolina’s Physicians Virtual Library ]
[ Pub Med ]
Consumer/Patient Wellness & Health
[ Hands on Health- South Carolina ]
[ Go Local South Carolina ]
[ MedlinePlus ]
Note: For those affiliated with USC School of Medicine-Library
For those affiliated with MUSC-Library
AHEC recommends the following resources for South Carolina Nurses.
| Databases | |
|---|---|
| PubMed | "PubMed is the premiere medical database, produced by the National Library of Medicine. It includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles from the 1950's forward. To search for articles on nursing, click on the "Limits" tab, and pull down the "Subsets" menu to "Nursing journals." |
| E-Journals * | |
|---|---|
| AORN Journal | From the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses; a few full text articles from the current issue are available |
| ARNP Care | Advanced Registered Nurse Practioner Care newsletter |
| BMC Nursing | Free, open access, peer reviewed journal from BioMed Central |
| EBN Online | Evidence Based Nursing |
| HighWire Press | Listing of journals with some free online full text articles |
| Nursing Leadership | The Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership |
| Nursing Center | Links to full text articles and nursing journals |
| OJIN | Online Journal of Issues in Nursing; a free, peer-reviewed journal, published by the ANA and Kent State |
| * Only a few articles for nursing are available for free online. Check with your Library for more information. | |
| Drug Information | |
|---|---|
| Drug Information | from MedlinePlus and the American Society for Health-System Phramacists |
| FDA: Drugs | Home page for the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) |
| RxList | A database of approximately 5,000 product names, with information for consumers and professionals |
| Additions/Deletions for Drug Product Lists | From the FDA's CDER, a list of the new additions and deletions of prescritpiton and OTC durgs, by month |
| Weights & Measures | Common weights and mesaures used by pharmacy technicians |
| Patient Education / Consumer Health Information | |
|---|---|
| English | Spanish / Español |
| Hands On Health | Informacíon de Salud de la BNM |
| MedlinePlus | NOAH: Temas de Salud |
|
"Healthfinder" español |
| National Alliance for Hispanic Health | |
| Academia Americana de Médicos de Familia | |
| Additional Resources | |
|---|---|
| SC Nurses Association | http://www.scnurses.org/ |
| State Board of Nursing | http://www.llr.state.sc.us/POL/Nursing/ |
| Online Nurse PDR | http://www.nursespdr.com/ |
| ANA: American Nurses Association | http://www.nursingworld.org/ |
| Health WEB (U of Michigan) | http://healthweb.org/browse.cfm?subjectid=60 |
