Doctor of Nursing Practice:
A Program Resource Pathfinder
Databases (Search these databases to find scholarly articles. Access is restricted to currently-enrolled Madonna students.)
§ ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest)
§ CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
§ Faulkner Advisory on IT Studies – Healthcare IT Topics
§ Health and Wellness Resource Center (Gale)
§ LexisNexis Academic (LexisNexis)
§ LexisNexis Congressional (LexisNexis)
§ LexisNexis Statistical (LexisNexis)
§ MEDLINE (CSA; FirstSearch)
§ ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source (ProQuest)
§ Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCOhost)
§ PubMed
Journals
Full Text Electronic Journals (This database lists and provides access to e-journals available at Madonna Library. To locate nursing journals [244 in the collection], search by journal title, or browse titles in areas under the subject category “Health & Biological Sciences.”)
Selected titles of interest on Full Text Electronic Journals:
§ Advanced Practice Nursing Quarterly
§ Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing
§ Health Informatics Journal
§ International Journal of Nursing Practice
§ Internet Journal of Advanced Nursing Practice
§ Journal of Advanced Nursing
§ Journal of Multicultural Nursing & Health
§ Journal of Nursing Care Quality
§ Journal of Nursing Management
§ Journal of Nursing Research
§ Nurse Researcher
§ Nursing Ethics
§ Nursing Philosophy
§ Online Journal of Issues in Nursing
§ Online Journal of Nursing Informatics
§ Research in Nursing & Health
§ Topics in Advanced Practice Nursing
§ Worldviews on Evidenced-Based Nursing
Print Journals @ Madonna Library (Selected titles relevant to nursing practice)
§ American Journal of Nursing
§ ANS: Advances in Nursing Science
§ Applied Nursing Research
§ Clinical Nurse Specialist
§ Clinical Nursing Research
§ Computers, Informatics, Nursing: CIN
§ Evidence-Based Nursing
§ Holistic Nursing Practice
§ JONA’S Healthcare Law, Ethics and Regulation
§ Journal of Health Care Finance
§ Journal of Nursing Administration
§ Journal of Nursing Scholarship
§ Journal of Professional Nursing
§ Modern Healthcare
§ Nurse Leader
§ Nursing Administration Quarterly
§ Nursing Economics
§ Nursing Law’s Regan Report
§ Nursing Management
§ Nursing Research
§ Nursing Science Quarterly
§ Patient Care
§ Policy, Politics and Nursing Practice
§ Reflections on Nursing Leadership
§ Research and Theory for Nursing Practice
Web Sites
Informatics
Alliance for Nursing Informatics
American Medical Informatics Association – Nursing Informatics Working Group
http://www.amia.org/mbrcenter/wg/ni/
American Nursing Informatics Association
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society – Nursing Informatics Community
http://www.himss.org/ASP/topics_nursingInformatics.asp
Nursing-Informatics.com
http://www.nursing-informatics.com/sitemap.html
Nursing Informatics Online
http://www.informaticsnurse.com/
Online Journal of Nursing Informatics
Quality and Safety Improvement
American Nurses Association
Baldrige National Quality Program: Using the Baldrige Organizational Profile for Health Care
http://patapsco.nist.gov/eBaldrige/HealthCare_Profile.cfm
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Institute of Medicine – Healthcare & Quality
http://www.iom.edu/CMS/3718.aspx
Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations – Performance Measurement
http://www.jointcommission.org/PerformanceMeasurement/
National Association for Healthcare Quality
National Association of Health Data Organizations
http://www.nahdo.org/default.aspx
National Center for Nursing Quality – National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators
http://www.nursingquality.org/Default.aspx
National Committee for Quality Assurance
National Institutes of Health Center for Scientific Review – Health of the Population Integrated Review Group
http://cms.csr.nih.gov/PeerReviewMeetings/CSRIRGDescription/HOPIRG/
National Quality Forum – Nursing Care Quality
http://www.qualityforum.org/nursing/
United
States Department of Health and Human Services - Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality
http://www.ahrq.gov/
Ethics
American Nurses Association – Center for Ethics and Human Rights
http://www.nursingworld.org/ethics/elinks.htm
Bioethics Resources on the Web – National Institutes of Health
BioethicsWeb
http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/bioethicsweb/
National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature – Georgetown University
http://www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/orgs.htm
Books (Search for books about nursing and its specialty areas in the Madonna Catalog using the general keyword option.)
Selected Titles
Reference RA418.5.P6 S54 2005
Shi, Leiyu, & Stevens, Gregory D. Vulnerable populations in the United States. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005.
RA969.9.M43 2005
Measuring patient safety. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 2005.
RT84.5.K69 2006
Professional nursing practice: Concepts and perspectives. 5th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2006.
RT84.5,N87 2007
Nursing knowledge development and clinical practice. New York: Springer Publishing, 2007.
RT84.5.P53 2006
Philosophical and theoretical perspectives for advanced nursing practice. 4th ed. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett, 2006.
RT85.B67 2007
Bosek, Marcia. The ethical component of nursing education: Integrating ethics into clinical experience. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2007.
RT86.54.C85 2006
Leininger, Madeleine M., & McFarland, Marilyn R. Culture care diversity and universality: A worldwide nursing theory. 2nd ed. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 2006.
RT86.7.Q356 2005
Quality work environments for nurse and patient safety. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 2005.
RT89.D86 2006
Dunham-Taylor, Janne, & Pinczuk, Joseph Z. Health care financial management for nurse managers: Applications in hospitals, long-term care, home care, and ambulatory care. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 2006.
RT98.A533 2008
Anderson, Elizabeth T. Community as partner: Theory and practice in nursing. 5th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008.
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