Resources for Nurses
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Databases
- Drug Information
- E-Books
- Journals
- Patient Information
- Point of Care Tools & Reviews
Toward Optimized Practice (TOP)
Antimicrobial Stewardship in Long Term Care Facilities
Nursing Home Acquired Pneumonia
Urinary Tract Infection - Long Term Care Facilities
Saskatchewan Child Health Clinic Guidelines for Standard Practice (May 2015)
Best Practice Clinical Guidelines: Registered Nursing Association of Ontario (RNAO)
Health Canada Clinical Practice Guidelines for Nurses in Primary Care
Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA) Clinical Practice Guidelines
CINAHL - a comprehensive database providing full text for more than 560 nursing journals and abstracts and indexing for a further 3,000 journals. A best bet to start Nursing research.
Healthstar - selected citations from the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE and former HealthSTAR databases covering health care delivery including health services, technology, administration and research.
MEDLINE - a major bibliographic database for clinical medicine as well as nursing and allied health.
PsycINFO - a database providing abstracts and citations to the psychological, social, behavioural and health sciences literature.
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LactMedDatabase containing information on drugs and other chemicals to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. A free mobile app is available.
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Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide 2013Provides quick A-to-Z access to current, vital drug information. The book provides complete monographs for 725 common drugs.
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Natural MedicinesA resource providing information on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary alternative and integrative therapies.
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Nursing CentralNursing Central is the complete mobile solution for nurses and students. Look up detailed information on diseases, tests, and procedures; then consult the comprehensive database of 5,000 drugs or refer to more than 65,000 dictionary terms whenever you have a question.
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RxTxA reference tool integrating content from CPhA's Therapeutic Choices and e-CPS. It is augmented by a wide and continuously growing range of external references to create a centralized drug resource for drug therapy information.
Davis' Drug Guide for Nurses can be found within Nursing Reference Centre Plus under the Drugs tab
| Auscultation Skills: Breath & Heart Sounds 5th Ed 2014 |
| Lippincott's Manual of Nursing Practice 10th Ed 2014 |
| Lippincott's Nursing Procedures 6th ed. 2013 (new edition coming soon)
Nursing Care Plans: Transitional Patient & Family Centered Care 6th Ed 2014 Nutrition Essentials for Nursing Practice 7th Ed 2014 Red Book: 2015 Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases30th Ed 2015 Wound Management: Principles and Practice 3rd Ed 2012 |
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RxTxUnder Conditions, open Minor Ailments: Information for Patients
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Dynamed PlusFrom any topic, patient information is available as a sub heading on the left side of the page.
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Centre for Addictions & Mental Health patient informationInformation about mental health and addictions that can be shared with patients or used by patients.
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HealthLineInformation that can be shared with or used by patients. Search by category, topic, medical tests or medications. Includes a symptom checker and decision tools.
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medSASK Consumer Q&AA list of questions asked by consumers to medSask along with the answers. A good resource to refer to, and to refer patients to use as well.
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medSask Pregnancy & Lactation Q&AA collection of pregnancy & lactation questions received by medSask with answers.
Point of care tools can be used to find answers to clinical questions quickly at the point of care.
Nursing Reference Centre Plus and Dynamed Plus offer free mobile apps that once downloaded, do not need wi-fi to use. Instructions to download can be found on the Apps for Mobile Devices page.
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Dynamed PlusA clinical reference tool containing summarized evidence on over 3,000 diseases and conditions. Includes an area devoted to new information that changes current practice. Includes calculators, links to primary review articles.
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Cochrane LibraryContains systematic reviews that focus on summarizing the evidence for a specific health question synthesized into one report.
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Nursing CentralNursing Central is the complete mobile solution for nurses and students. Look up detailed information on diseases, tests, and procedures; then consult the comprehensive database of 5,000 drugs or refer to more than 65,000 dictionary terms whenever you have a question.
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