Nursing Student Tools  

• ERes: UW Libraries Electronic Reserves
• UW Libraries - Course Reserves Help page

• HSL Liaison to UW School of Nursing: Janet Schnall
  schnall@uw.edu
• HSL Liaison to UW School of Nursing: Joanne Rich
  jrich@uw.edu

• Nurse Toolkit
• Nurse Practitioner Toolkit
• Care Provider Toolkit
• Gerontology: Advanced Practice Nursing

• American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)
• AACN Membership Directory
  Directory of Nursing Schools Maintained by the AACN.
• Testing & Education Reference Center
  (Gale Group) Free registration. Contains NCLEX-PN and NCLEX-RN practice test.

• Clinical Resources Video. Case scenario demonstrating clinical use of library resources. Flash required 
• Connect to UW Restricted Resources from Off-Campus
  Using the proxy service.
• Document Services Order Form
  Order books or copies of articles delivered to you - be sure to check for possible fees

• Nurs 303 Foundations of Professional Nursing
• Nurs 304 Human Responses I
• Nurs 410 Finding Bioethic Resources
• Nurs 415 Nursing of Families: Childbearing and Childrearing
• Nurs 560 Dynamics of Community Health Practice: Library Resources
• NURS 593: Search for Evidence for Preventive Therapeutics

• Computer Literacy Classes
  Check current offerings from the UW Women's Center, open to women and men.
• Free Computing Workshops
  Offered by UW Learning & Scholarly Technologies (LST) to UW students and employees.
• APA Style Guide
• ResearchWorks Institutional Repository
  Deposit your dissertations, theses, capstone projects, articles, technical reports, datasets, images, and other file types. No charge to you and makes your work available to others.

• PubMed at the UW
  
  PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's database of citations to biomedical literature going back to the early 1950's. Read this web page to learn how to search PubMed and watch the brief videos for visual search samples. Flash required
• CINAHL Plus: Nursing & Allied Health (HSL help guide)
  
  CINAHL Plus provides citations from 1937 to the present of the literature in nursing and allied health disciplines.
• EndNote Web Help Page
  
  Tip sheet for using EndNote Web <http://www.myendnoteweb.com> with UW-available databases to manage citations and format bibliographies.
• RefWorks Information
  
  Help page on using RefWorks, an online citation database to manage citations and format bibliographies.
• Email Alert Services
  
  Deliver current citations or the table of contents of selected journals (based on a search strategy you create) directly into your email.
• Basic Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice
  
  Introduction to finding evidence-based literature online.
• Finding Measurement Tools Tutorial
  
  How to find information about measurement instruments and tips on how to get copies of them.
• Finding Drug Information
  
  A tutorial for learning about Web-based drug information resources.

Welford C, Murphy K, Casey D. (2011) Demystifying nursing research terminology. Part 1. Nurse Researcher. 18, 4, 38-43. 

Welford C, Murphy K, Casey D. (2012) Demystifying nursing research terminology: Part 2. Nurse Researcher. 19, 2, 29-35.