Acceptable online resources that can be cited for school

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Tele, Peds, LDRP.

Hello,

Im currently in an LPN to RN bridge program that is online, and we are required to do weekly discussion groups where we converse back and forth on a group assignment before posting our final answer/presentation at the end of the week. Im in my last semester and our teachers have gotten more strict about what sources we can use. They say we cant use sites made for the lay person unless we are talking about patient education, so we must use sites made for professionals in the healthcare field....basically a higher level. They want us to use nursing journals (I have a hard time finding articles relevant to the topics we discuss and it is very time consuming reading them) and for example, the CDC website is one they say is acceptable as well as e-medicine.

I would really appreciate if others could list some other resources that would be considered acceptable for siting in my discussions, and also the type of resources you would use if you were writing a paper,etc since I will be going on for my BSN soon and know I will need to know these things. I used to just use google and cite medlineplus,etc but that will no longer fly with my instructors.:uhoh21:

Please help!

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Specializes in ER/Trauma.

If you are looking for online, I would suggest the American Journal of Nursing (ajnonline.com). We were also required to only use peer reviewed professional journal articles as source material. I used numerous articles from here for papers and all were acceptible.

There are many nursing journals available out there, most have online incarnations. Google nursing journals and you will find many.

Hope this helps!

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Do you have access to online academic data through CINAHL, Ebscohost, ProQuest, Medline, etc? You can search by topic, and narrow down your searches by adding more words. For example: I just did a search to provide some help for a nursing student and searched for hemodialysis. There were over 39,000 journal articles available; I added the word nursing, and it narrowed it down to 1700+. I could then scan down the list to see which ones were viewable and thus printable with full text, and clicked on those which sounded like what I needed. There is a lot of reading involved, but it can be a fun search.

Hope this helps!

Melissa

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

so many nurses forget to visit schools library staff who can help advise what's available saving much time, effort and $$ with nursing papers!

[color=#0000cc]nurses - medscape

find nurse continuing medical education (ce), nurse medical journal articles, medline, nurse medical news, nurse conference coverage and comprehensive drug info

[color=#0000cc]american nurses association - ojin: the online journal of issues ...a peer-reviewed online journal provides a forum for discussion of pertinent issues in nursing

findarticles.com

lippencott website: http://www.lww.com/periodicaltab/

medline search available at top of allnurses page ---click down arrow next to seach link.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Tele, Peds, LDRP.

Thank you for providing me with some resources, I appreciate it!

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Specializes in Nursing Professional Development.

I strongly agree with NRSKarenRN on this issue. Go to your local health sciences library! They have lots of professional nursing journals. They also have the computer resources (and subrcriptions to online collections) that will give you access to tons of stuff. Finally, (and perhaps most important), they have librarians who can help you learn about all the resources they have and how to use them! These folks are professionals who are experts in how to access the professional literature.

Does your nursing school have a library? Start there. If they don't have a decent library ... Is there another school of nursing nearby? That school might have a good library with nursing resources. Finally, if that doesn't work, try your local hospital library. Most larger hospitals have libraries with several major journals available and with the online access to many others.

While I am all for using computers to help you ... one thing I find so distressing is that students are no longer learning how to use these wonderful resources we have all over the country. Libraries are good things and good places to go to find information. Librarians are there to help. Let them.

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