Physical Therapy
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Dictionaries, Handbooks, and Encyclopedias
American Nursing: A Biographical Dictionary. REF .RT34 .A44 Signed biographical sketches of nursing leaders with additional references. Appendices listing subjects by place of birth and by "Decades of Birth" are useful.
Encyclopedia of Bioethics. REF .QH 332 .E52 1978
Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health. / Miller, Benjamin F. and Keane, Claire B. REF .R121 .M65 1992
Mosby's Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health Dictionary: Illustrated in Full Color. REF .R121 .M89 1994
Physician's Desk Reference. Ref .RS75 .P5 2006 Includes latest available information on over 2800 drug products.
Physician's Desk Reference for Nonprescription Drugs. REF RS 75 .P52 2006
Indexes and Databases
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) with Full Text 1982+. Maximum 50 simultaneous users.
MEDLINE 1965+. Abstracted articles from 3,500 medical journals.
BioMed Central An independent publishing house providing free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.
Blackwell-Synergy Journals (Science, Technology, and Medicine Collection) From various starting dates to current issues. About 400 electronic journals in science, technology, and medicine.
Cochrane Library Maximum 1 simultaneous user. Please try later if busy. Provides information and evidence to support health care decisions and to inform those receiving care. Includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews (Methodology Register), Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA), and NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED).
Health Source-Nursing/Academic Edition
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 1998+
LexisNexis Academic Provides full-text articles on legal issues in nursing.
Mary Ann Liebert E-journals Online health science journals.
New England journal of medicine 1993+
Project MUSE Mid or late 1990s to current. About 200 electronic journals, with emphasis on humanities and social sciences.
PubMed Search in PubMedCentral for full text to articles in the areas of nursing and medicine.
Free Internet Resources
Physical Therapy Sites | Nursing and General Medical Sites
Physical Therapy Sites
American Physical Therapy Association
The Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy
Sports Physical Therapy Section
Nursing & General Medical Sites
BioMed Central. An independent publishing house providing free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.
Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Internet Public Library: Health and Medical Reference
MEDLINEPlus. Health information from the National Library of Medicine
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
National Center for Health Statistics
National Center on Sleep Disorders Research
National Institute of Nursing Research
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Women's Health Information Center
Public Health Resources on the Internet
PubMed Central. PubMed Central is a digital archive of life sciences journal literature, developed and managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Virtual Hospital: Web Site Reviews of Common Medical Conditions
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