LAREDO COMMUNITY COLLEGE

LIBRARY INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDE

 

 

NURSING & ALLIED HEALTH

 

This broadly-based, supportive, professionally-degreed discipline covers the care and maintenance of patients, both in hospital and out, and any associated aspects of patient care from his or her emotional well-being to status of recovery and ongoing therapeutic intervention.

 

Finding books [using the online book catalog]:

 

The Library of Congress (LC) Classification System is used by most colleges and university libraries to classify and arrange books on the shelves.  The following letters from the LC Classification System are useful in researching these subjects.

 

Medicine [general]                                R

Pathology                                             RB

Surgery                                                RD

Pediatrics                                             RJ

Therapeutics. Pharmacology                 RM

Pharmacy                                             RS

Nursing                                                RT

 

Go to these sections in Reference or the general stacks to browse these topic areas.  For more detailed information, ask the librarian on duty for a handout describing the complete range of the LC Classification System.

 

Sample Search Terms [for use in the online book catalog or other databases]:

 

nursing, physical therapy, pharmacology, geriatrics, elder abuse, skilled care nursing, allied health, pediatric intensive care, intensive care nursing, paramedics, occupational therapy, radiologic technology, phlebotomy, first responders, paramedics, triage

 

Suggested Print Resources [in the Reference Section]:

 

  • NCLEX-RN Review
  • Physicians’ Desk Reference
  • Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
  • Top 100 health care careers
  • The Merck Manual
  • DSM IV [for mental disorders]

 

Use the online book catalog to determine the call numbers for the above items, or ask for help at the Information Desk.

Online Databases:

 

Online databases yield important information published in the periodical literature, including magazine, professional journals and newspapers.  Some of our most authoritative sources for this type of information are:

 

  • EBSCOhost [Academic Search, Complete, CINAHL, MEDLINE, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, Heath Source: Nursing/Academic]

 

  • Gale / Infotrac [Health Reference Center: Academic]

 

  • WilsonWeb

 

Click on our library home page under “Online Databases” to access these resources.  All of them contain full-text capabilities, allowing selected articles to be printed out in their entirety.

 

Internet Resources [selected]:

 

These content-rich websites contain much useful data.  However, as with all Net-based searching, students should be discriminating about what they are finding and using.  Not all resources on the Internet are equal.  These have been found to be reliable.

 

  • For government information

            www.pubmed.gov

  • National Library of Medicine

            http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

  • Centers for Disease Control

            http://www.cdc.gov/;

 

Citation Style:            Varies.  Please check with your instructor.

 

Tutorials:                                            [under construction]

 

For further information, call the general library reference number at the Main Yeary library at 956-721-5274 or 956-794-4261 at the Zaffirini (South) library.  We are available during all hours the library is open. 

 

You may also reach us by email at reference_desk@laredo.edu.