Online Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Etc.
- General
- Patient Safety
- Pharmacology, Tests, and Procedures
- Nutrition
- Patient Education
- Nursing Leadership
- Nursing Education, Career Development
- Research and Writing
General
Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Online encyclopedias in a wide variety of disciplines, from medicine to business, law, multicultural studies, and more.
- Click the link below to search only the health-related encyclopedias in this collection.
Nursing & Health Science Collection (Gale Virtual Reference Library)
- Search health-related encyclopedias.
- Full text electronic books for nursing, medicine, and allied health.
- Full text electronic books for a wide variety of disciplines, including nursing.
Jackson library subscribes to many other electronic books not listed on this page. To find electronic books:
- Open the Jackson Library Catalog
- Type a topic such as nursing theory
- Add the words "AND electronic book" to your topic, for example:
- Hit the "Keyword Anywhere" button
nursing theory AND electronic book
Patient safety
The Handbook of Patient Safety Compliance
- Published 2005 by Jossey-Bass
Keeping Patients Safe : Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses
- Published 2004 by National Academies Press
Avoiding common anesthesia errors
- Published in 2008 by Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Legal aspects of health care administration
- Published in 2007 by Jones and Bartlett
Clinical Risk Management : Enhancing Patient Safety
- Published in 2001 by BMJ Books
Pharmacology, Tests, and Procedures
2008 Nursing Spectrum Drug Handbook
- Published in 2008 by McGraw Hill Medical
Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide
- Published in 2004 by Lippincott
Litt's Pocketbook of Drug Eruptions and Interactions
- Published 2004 by Parthenon Pub. Group
Laboratory tests and diagnostic procedures : with nursing diagnoses
- Published 2008 by Pearson/Prentice Hall
Nurse's 5-minute clinical consult. Diagnostic tests
- Published 2008 by Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Davis's guide to clinical nursing skills
- Published 2008 by F.A. Davis
Best practices : evidence-based nursing procedures.
- Published 2007 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Nutrition
Nutrition : a handbook for nurses
- Published 2008 by Wiley-Blackwell
Nutrition essentials for nursing practice
- Published in 2006 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Nutrition and Well-Being A to Z
- Published 2004
Patient Education
Nurse as Educator: Principles of Teaching and Learning for Nursing Practice
- Learning theory, motivation and compliance, adult literacy, socioeconomic and cultural attributes of the learner, teaching objectives and materials, etc.
- Published 2003 by Jones and Bartlett
- First edition (1997) also available online
Explaining Illness : Research, Theory, and Strategies
- Includes chapters for specific populations: low literacy, gender, children, older adults, Native Americans, Latinos, African Americans
- Published 2000
Processing of Medical Information in Aging Patients : Cognitive and Human Factors Perspectives
- Communicating health information, consent, adherence, medication instructions, etc.
- Published 1999
Nursing Leadership
Nursing Leadership and Management : Concepts and Practice
- Communication skills, diversity, leading meetings, time management, directing patient care, budgeting, informatics, health and safety issues, etc.
- Published 2001 by F.A. Davis
Essentials of Nursing Leadership and Management
- Communication skills, team dynamics, leading meetings, diversity, time management, budgeting, informatics, health and safety issues, empowerment and political influence, etc.
- Published 2001 by F.A. Davis
Health Care Teamwork : Interdisciplinary Practice and Teaching
- Developing and maintaining interdisciplinary health care teams
- Published 2000
The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance
- HIPAA overview, writing effective privacy policies, covered entity issues, business associate issues, healthcare provider issues, etc.
- Published 2004
Nursing Practice and the Law : Avoiding Malpractice and Other Legal Risks
- Part IV Nursing Law and Management covers employment issues, managed care, alternate dispute resolution, and the legislative process
- Published 2001 by F.A. Davis
Nursing Education, Career Development
- Introduction to learning theory, learning strategies, and other education topics
- Published 2003
A Handbook for Medical Teachers
- Student approaches to learning, clinical teaching, planning a course, preparing materials, assessing students, etc.
- Published 2001
ABC of Learning and Teaching in Medicine
- Applying educational theory, teaching large and small groups, the clinical environment, different types of assessment, web based learning, creation of teaching materials, etc.
- Published 2003
Learning Styles and the Nursing Profession
- Published 1998
- Published 2001
- Published 2000
Research and Writing
Fundamentals of Nursing Research
- Choosing the topic and defining the problem, literature review, qualitative and quantitative research design, measurement, analysis, communicating results, etc.
- Published 1995 by Jones and Bartlett
Research for Nurses : Methods and Interpretation
- Experimental designs, survey designs, field study, bias and ethical issues, descriptive and inferential statistics, data collection and measurement, questionnaire development, sample size, using SPSS, etc.
- Published 2002 by F.A. Davis
Qualitative Research in Health Care
- Interviews, focus groups, case studies, action research, etc.
- Published 2000 by BMJ Books
Design and Analysis of Clinical Nursing Research Studies
- Designing a clinical study, sample size, statistical tests and study designs, variables, confidence intervals, graphical presentation of results, computers for statistical analysis
- Published 2000
Interpretation and Uses of Medical Statistics
- Describing data, associations, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, epidemiological and clinical research methods, sample size, regression and correlation, multivariate analysis, bias and measurement error, etc.
- Published 2000 by Blackwell Science
Writing Skills in Practice : A Practical Guide for Health Professionals
- Writing for clinical practice, writing for teaching and learning, writing for publication
- Published 2002
The Writer's Workbook : Health Professionals' Guide to Getting Published
- Collecting data, developing the article, outlining, the query letter, first draft, publishing on the internet, do's and don'ts of writing, etc.
- NLN book published 1999 by Jones and Bartlett
Peer Review in Health Sciences
- Editorial peer review, peer review of grant applications, effectiveness, innovation, bias, misconduct, how-to, alternatives to peer review, the future of peer review
- Published 2002 by BMJ Books
