Nursing Resources
The OSF Library & Resource Center provides a number of services and resources to nurses and nursing students.
For questions about access or resources, please contact us at (309) 655-2268.
For questions about access or resources, please contact us at (309) 655-2268.
Special Access
Many of our resources require special access in order to view them. Learn more on our Services Page.
Databases
- CINAHL Plus with Full Text
- Dynamed
- Nursing/Academic EBSCOHost
- Nursing Clinical Key
- Elsevier Clinical Skills
- Ovid Medline
- PubMed
- RefWorks
Images & Videos
- Patient safety is our priority: Avoiding Aspiration: A Speech therapist explains importance of the nursing bedside aspiration risk tool.
- Scientific & Medical Art Imagebase*
Stroke Guidelines
For general guidelines and statements, please visit the American Heart Association website.
- Management of Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage
- Management of Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
- Guidelines for the Early Management of Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke: 2019 Update
- 2021 Guideline for the Prevention of Stroke in Patients With Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack: A Guideline From the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association
- 2018 Guidelines for the Early Management of Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke
Answering Clinical Questions in Real Time for Nursing
Background Questions
Searching Background Questions - generally ask who, what, when, why, where or how about a single disease, drug, intervention or concept.
| Type of Question | 10 Minutes or Less | More than 10 Minutes |
|---|---|---|
| Alternative or Complementary Treatment |
Natural Standard | MedlinePlus Alternative Medicine Review of Natural Products (eBook) |
| Nursing Procedures, Lab, Results, Calculators |
MedCalc 3000 Nurses Guide to Clinical Procedures |
Micromedex NursingConsult |
| Disease Information - Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment |
EBSCO Quick Lesson About... Diseases: a Nursing Process Approach Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms |
Mosby's Nursing Index NursingConsult eBooks |
| Drug Information | Lexi-Comp Online Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide Micromedex |
Mosby's Nursing Index |
| Evidence-Based Practice | EBSCO Evidence-Based Care Sheets NursingConsult Evidence-Based Monographs |
AHRQ Cochrane Library National Guidelines Clearinghouse |
| Nursing & Nursing Diagnosis | Nursing Consult Nursing Diagnosis: Application to Clinical Practice |
EBSCO CINAHL Plus Mosby's Nursing Index |
| Patient Education | MD Consult Micromedex Lexi-Comp Online |
Patient Education Tutorials MedlinePlus |
Foreground Questions
As you gain experience in searching background questions and using clinical tools to find quick answers, you'll begin asking more complex clinical questions or foreground questions. Format these questions using "PICO."
- P - patient, problem, population
- I - intervention (nursing intervention, tx, drug)
- C - comparison of interventions (gold standard or benchmark)
- O - outcomes (for the patient, society, economics)
| Type of Resource | Time Available (minutes) | Resources |
|---|---|---|
| Filtered, summarized monographs | 5-10 | ACP PIER UpToDate |
| Information Aggregators | 15-20 | Clin-eGuide NursingConsult Micromedex |
| Critically Appraised Information | 20+ | EBSCO CINAHL Plus Mosby's Nursing Index Ovid Medicine |
| Journal Article Databases | Stay up on literature without reading full articles | ACP Journal Club Evidence-Based Nursing |
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