Nursing Informatics

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Databases
Academic Search Elite (EBSCOhost)
Multi-disciplinary database offers full-text, dating from 1985 to present, for nearly 1,850 scholarly journals, including more than 1,250 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study.

CINAHL (EBSCOhost)
Provides indexing and abstracting for over 1,600 current nursing and allied health journals and publications dating back to 1982 and includes data through 11/14/03 .

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCOhost)

Contains nearly 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.

PubMed
Contains over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's, from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
Also see Business Source Premier, Health Business FullText, and more

Books
Handbook of Informatics for Nurses & Health Care Professionals By: Toni Lee Hebda, Patricia Czar, and Cynthia M. Mascara Call Number: TR50.5 .H43

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The Handbook serves as an introduction to the computer technology used by health care professionals, nurses, and others. It is an easy-to-read guide that provides useful information on topics that range from basic computing concepts and electronic communication, data integrity and security, to information system selection and implementation, disaster planning and recovery, telehealth, and Informatics applications for education and research.

Internet Resource Guide for Nurses and Health Care Professionals By: Toni Lee Hebda, Patricia Czar, and Cynthia M. Mascara Call Number: RT5.5 .M37 2005
This concise, pocket-sized guide to the online health care environment provides background information about the Internet, its services and various types of Internet resources available for nursing and health care professionals and students. Updated with the most current resources, the resource is designed to provide students with the knowledge and confidence needed to use the Internet for education, research, career and other purposes.

Informatics for the Clinical Laboratory: A Practical Guide By: Daniel Cowan Call Number: Net Library
This book highlights all aspects of laboratory informatics, with a focus on information management and the corresponding hardware and technical processes involved. In addition to a comprehensive introduction on laboratory informatics, the book emphasizes the importance of information and resource management as opposed to simply covering the role of computers that support the information system.

Websites

American Medical Informatics Association

http://www.amia.org/

Dedicated to developing and using medical technologies to improve health care.

American Nursing Informatics Association

http://www.ania-caring.org/

ANIA's mission is to provide networking, education and information resources that enrich and strengthen the roles of nurses in the field of informatics.

American Telemedicine Association

http://www.americantelemed.org/

Resource and advocate promoting access to medical care for consumers and health professionals via telecommunications technology.

Health Informatics World Wide

http://www.hiww.org/

Contains a comprehensive health informatics index and links related institutions and associations.

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society

http://www.himss.org/ASP/

Provides leadership in healthcare for the management of technology, information and change through publications, educational opportunities and member services.

Journals
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making This journal is an open access journal publishing original peerreviewed research articles in information management, systems and technology in healthcare and the study of medical decision making The Online Journal of Nursing Informatics OJNI is a free, international, professional, refereed publication that focuses on nursing informatics in all practice settings. OJNI is committed to addressing the theoretical and practical aspects of nursing informatics as it relates to the art of nursing. CINAHL indexes the journal. Health Informatics Journal Provides an international forum for the exchange of practice, innovation and research. Representing the interdisciplinary nature of health informatics, the journal publishes peer reviewed contributions from the fields of informatics and telematics, the health professions, computer science, engineering and management. Teaching and Learning in Medicine Forum for research on the purposes and processes as they relate to the education of medical professionals Technology and Healthcare Peer-reviewed journal of engineering, medical science and technology.
Check the A to Z Journal list on the Librarys website for additional journal titles Cant find full-text for the article you need? Use Rapid ILL from the Librarys website to have an article delivered directly to your desktop. This publication created by Mark D. Puterbaugh Information Services Librarian Warner Memorial Library Eastern University (mputerba@easter.edu) Prepared by Malinda Shannon Research Assistant Monday, April 22, 2010