Care Planning
All-in-One Nursing Care Planning Resource, 5th ed.
Online book providing over 100 care plans, including medical-surgical, maternity/OB, pediatrics, and psychiatric‒mental health, to help you care for patients in any setting.
Ulrich & Canale’s Nursing Care Planning Guide: Prioritization, Delegation, and Clinical Reasoning, 8th ed
Online book with 31 detailed nursing diagnosis care plans and 63 disease/disorder care plans keyed to specific expected outcomes and interventions
Continuing Education
AudioDigest
All Audio Digest programs can be used for credit or contact hours by physicians, PAs, and nurses. Certain Audio Digest programs can be used for credit or contact hours by certified registered nurse anesthetists, psychologists, optometrists, ophthalmic technicians, and registered dietitians or dietetic technician.
Contact the library for registration instructions.
CDC Training and Continuing Education Online (TCEO)
TCEO provides the public health and healthcare workforce access to CDC educational activities that offer free continuing education (CE) credits, contact hours, or units. Use TCEO to search for CE opportunities, complete course evaluations and posttests, obtain your CE certificates, and manage your CDC CE transcript. CDC is accredited with Distinction as a provider of Continuing Nursing Education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's (ANCC) Commission on Accreditation. Use the search function in TCOE to search for course by accreditation type.
CINAHL Complete Instructions
CINAHL CE modules are interactive educational modules that allow nurses, social work, and allied health professionals to satisfy CE requirements online. They contain the latest topics on patient care and drug administration. Each CE module consists of course material, an interactive review, and a competency test with a certificate of completion. CEU is available to nurses and allied health professionals.
ClinicalKey for Nursing Instructions
Earn continuing nursing education contact hours accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation by reading
Clinical Updates in Clinical Key for Nursing.
Medscape
Medscape, LLC offers online continuing education (CE) for selected journal articles, allowing clinicians the opportunity to earn Medscape CE credit. Medscape, LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Register for free or login without a password to get unlimited access to all continuing education activities.
Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database Instructions
Natural Medicines offers a variety of continuing education credits derived from the
Prescribers’ Letter and Natural Medicines for all healthcare professionals, including physicians, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and nurses.
UpToDate Instructions
Time spent reading UpToDate topics can be used to fulfill requirements for the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and other nursing certification organizations. Refer to
Nursing Continuing Education Requirement and Use of UpToDate State Licensing Board Regulations for further information about acceptance of UpToDate CE.
Drug Information
Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses, 18th ed.
Online book providing up-to-date drug information in well-organized, nursing-focused monographs, including extensive supplemental material in 14 appendices, thoroughly addressing safe medication administration
Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed)
Peer-reviewed and fully referenced database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed, including data on maternal and infant levels of drugs, possible effects on breastfed infants and on lactation, and alternate drugs to consider.
Gahart's 2022 Intravenous Medications, 38th ed.
Online book with information needed to safely administer more than 400 intravenous drugs, including updated drug interactions, precautions, alerts, and patient teaching instructions.
Lexicomp ONLINE
Drug decision support resource with an easily searchable interface to quickly make medicine decisions at the point-of-care, even for patients with complex medical conditions.
Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database
Authoritative resource on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary alternative and integrative therapies.
Evidence-Based Practice Resources
CINAHL Complete
Database for nursing and allied health professionals, offering access to over 600 full-text journals, evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons, and more.
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ClinicalKey for Nursing
Database of nursing journals, books, drug monographs, evidence-based nursing monographs, clinical topic summaries, videos, and images from the publisher Elsevier.
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The Cochrane Library (via Ovid)
Collection of databases containing high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making comprised of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews,
ACP Journal Club, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Cochrane Clinical Answers, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Methodology Register, Health Technology Assessment, & NHS Economic Evaluation Database.
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Essential Evidence Plus
Evidence-based clinical decision support system featuring over 13,000 topics, guidelines, abstracts, tools, images, and summaries covering the most common conditions, diseases, and procedures clinicians come in contact with every day.
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Evidence-Based Practice for Nursing and Healthcare Quality Improvement
Online guide to planning, implementation, and evaluation of EBP and QI projects to improve quality of care and health outcomes.
Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing, 4th ed.
Online book that instructs the reader on how to find, critically read, and interpret a range of research studies and provides optimal approaches towards helping patients reach decisions that are informed by the best-available evidence.
Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database
Evidence-based nursing and allied health database with over 3,000 records of evidence-based recommended practices, evidence summaries, best practice information sheets, systematic reviews, and systematic review protocols.
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Ovid MEDLINE
Ovid’s subscription interface to access MEDLINE, the premier literature database containing over 27 million references from 5,200 biomedical journals, dating from 1966 to present.
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PubMed
National Library of Medicine’s free interface to access MEDLINE, the premier literature database containing over 27 million references from 5,200 biomedical journals, dating from 1966 to present.
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Trip Medical Database
Clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care. (Register for a free account and select AMEDD Virtual Library as your institution to link directly to articles available in the AVL.)
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CINAHL Complete
Database for nursing and allied health professionals, offering access to over 600 full-text journals, evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons, and more.
ClinicalKey for Nursing
Database of nursing journals, books, drug monographs, evidence-based nursing monographs, clinical topic summaries, videos, and images from the publisher Elsevier.
Ovid Emcare
Database with over 5 million citations and abstracts from 3,500 nursing and allied health journals, including coverage of over 2,800 journals not available on other leading nursing databases.
Ovid MEDLINE
Ovid’s subscription interface to access MEDLINE, the premier literature database containing over 27 million references from 5,200 biomedical journals, dating from 1966 to present.
PubMed
National Library of Medicine’s free interface to access MEDLINE, the premier literature database containing over 27 million references from 5,200 biomedical journals, dating from 1966 to present.
Scope & Standards
Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, 3rd ed.
Online book with detailed and practical discussion of the competent level of nursing practice and professional performance
Scope and Standards of Practice for Professional Telehealth Nursing, 6th ed.
Online book with current professional norms, practices, and expectations in telehealth nursing from the American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing.
Scope & Standards of Practice for Professional Ambulatory Care Nursing, 9th ed.
Online book with definition of the ambulatory care nursing, its defining characteristics, conceptual framework, and history and the responsibilities for which ambulatory care RNs are accountable.
Guidelines
AORN Guidelines for Perioperative Practice - 2022 Edition
Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses’ gold-standard in evidence-based recommendations to deliver safe perioperative patient care and achieve workplace safety.