Subject and Course Guides: Nursing: Welcome

Welcome to the Nursing Guide

This guide is the main library guide for nursing. This guide has links to resources such as databases, evidence-based practice resources, patient education, and more. Please contact your Nursing Library Liaison from your campus if you need help along the way. We can meet with you online.

Make an Appointment with a Librarian

Please click on the Schedule Appointment link to see when a nursing librarian is available to meet with you online.

If the appointment times on the consultation calendar do not match your availability, please use the link below to request an appointment. We will try to accommodate the requests.

Request a Library Consultation

Quick Links-Library Resources

CINAHL Plus with Full Text

The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health (CINAHL) database provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health.
Cochrane Library

The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain independent evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions.
* Cochrane Reviews, aka Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR)
* Other Reviews, aka Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
* Clinical Trials; aka Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL)
* Methods Studies, aka Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR)
* Technology Assessments, aka Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA)
* Economic Evaluations, aka National Health Service (NHS) Economic Evaluation Database (NHSEED)
* Cochrane Groups, aka About the Cochrane Collaboration

E-books

Need to find a journal?

EBSCO Mobile
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EBSCO Mobile can be used on several smartphones, especially through the more popular ones:

* Android
* BlackBerry
* Dell Axim
* iPhone
* Palm 750
HAPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments)
Interlibrary Loan/ILLiad
MEDLINE via Ovid
MEDLINE via PubMed@UIC
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MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. MEDLINE contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,600 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. The database contains over 12 million citations dating back to the mid-1960's. Coverage is worldwide, but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts.

PsycINFO

PsycINFO contains bibliographic citations and abstracts from materials in the field of psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Updated weekly.

RefWorks: Build a Bibliography

Nursing Library Liaisons

Chicago

Rebecca Raszewski
Graduate Nursing (AGMS/DNP/PhD)
UI Health Nurses
(312) 996-2759
raszewr1@uic.edu

Annie Nickum
Pre-Licensure (BSN/RN-BSN)
UI Health Nurses
(312) 413-2464
anicku2@uic.edu

Jeanne Link
Graduate Entry (Chicago only)
BSN (Springfield & Urbana only)
Certificate Programs
312-996-2227
jlink@uic.edu

Rockford

Cynthia Reynolds
Graduate Nursing (AGMS/DNP)
(815) 395-5658
cmreynol@uic.edu

Peoria & Quad Cities

Emily Johnson-Barlow
Graduate Nursing (AGMS/DNP)
(309) 671-8491
emj11@uic.edu

Springfield/Urbana
Graduate Students

Please contact us and the nursing liaisons will triage your question or appointment request.

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Nursing: Welcome

Welcome to the Nursing Guide

Make an Appointment with a Librarian

Quick Links-Library Resources

Nursing Library Liaisons

Chicago

Rockford

Peoria & Quad Cities

Locations

Richard J. Daley Library

Library of the Health Sciences-Chicago

Library of the Health Sciences-Peoria

Crawford Library of the Health Sciences-Rockford

Library of the Health Sciences-Urbana