Welcome to UHN Libraries' Nursing Resources. This guide is designed to support nursing staff and students by offering quick access to clinically relevant, evidence-based resources. Whether you're reviewing current practice guidelines, preparing for patient care, or staying updated with the latest clinical research, this guide provides a variety of tools to enhance your practice.
To explore this library guide, click on the drop-down boxes to reveal the contents of each section.
CINAHL Ultimate is the definitive database for a nursing and allied health literature. CINAHL provides access journal articles, evidence-based care sheets, continuing education modules and research instruments.
Emcare is a comprehensive database that covers all nursing specialities and nursing professions, along with allied health literature. Emcare contains a large number of scholarly journals and articles, with a particular emphasis on international coverage.
Proquest Nursing & Allied Health Database contains a mix of scholarly literature, clinical training videos, reference materials, and evidence-based resources. This database is suited for students, instructors, researchers, and healthcare professionals.
MEDLINE is a trusted database for finding high-quality research articles and books in biomedicine and health fields. It’s a valuable resource for nurses looking to support evidence-based practice, stay current with clinical guidelines, and find reliable health information. Emphasis is put on North American literature.
PubMed is the free, public interface for Medline. It is an easy-to-use search tool for finding reliable health and medical research.
Embase is a biomedical and pharmaceutical research database with extensive coverage of international journals, especially in drug research and clinical trials. There is selective coverage for nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, psychology, and alternative medicine. Embase includes broader international and European coverage.
PsycInfo is a database for research in the psychological, behavioral, and social sciences. It’s a valuable resource for nurses working in mental health, community care, or any setting where understanding patient behavior and psychological well-being is important. PsycInfo includes peer-reviewed articles, books, and dissertations, helping nurses find evidence-based information on topics like stress, trauma, addiction, and patient care.
ClinicalKey's Procedure Videos collection provides step-by-step guidance on a wide range of clinical procedures. It includes detailed videos, images, and written instructions on how to prepare for, perform, and follow up on the most common procedures required in a hospital setting. It’s a valuable tool for learning, reviewing, or teaching clinical skills in everyday practice.
The Clinical Nursing Skills Videos are short, focused videos to help students and practicing nurses improve their clinical skills and deliver the best possible patient care. Topics include assessments, procedures, medication administration, caring for special populations, and more.
Learn about resources to support your clinical learning and professional development.
Natural Medicines is the most authoritative resource on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary alternative and integrative therapies.
BMJ Best Practice is a point of care tool designed to aid clinicians in their decision-making process from diagnosis to treatment. The latest evidence, guidelines, and expert opinion are combined in a step-by-step approach to provide access to quick and authoritative information. To access the BMJ app on your mobile device:
Lexidrug is a comprehensive drug information tool. It contains drug monographs along with information on drug interactions, identification, calculations, toxicology, and patient education. Lexi provides current generic and brand names for drugs used in the United States and Canada.
To access Lexidrug on your mobile device:
CPS is considered to be the Canadian standard for drug and therapeutic content. Includes drug monographs, Canadian Pharamacists Associations's (CPhA) publications, therapeutic choices, pill identifiers, and Lexi-Interact drug interactions checker. Search by condition or drug information.
To access CPS mobile App (iOS only):
Learn how to access our mobile apps with simple, step-by-step directions.
Guidelines for patient care from the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario.
The College of Nurses of Ontario provides practice standards and guidelines to support nurses in providing safe and ethical nursing care to the people of Ontario.
Guidelines / guidance from the National Health Service in the UK.
Learn how to search for practice guidelines in our databases
CAP provides resources to support learning and clinical practice, including staff education materials, toolkits and resources about clinical procedures.
CNA has collaborated with nursing & health-care organizations and other stakeholders to develop innovative tools and resources to advance the profession
An online nursing journal, published by the Canadian Nurses Association. It includes practical information, insightful opinions and interesting stories to support practice.
Longwoods publishes healthcare research, reports, reviews, commentaries and news from and for academics, clinicians, policymakers, and administrators. Access the Nursing Leadership journal through this resource.
eBook Nursing Collection features more than 600 e-books for nursing professionals, including clinical guides, evidence-based practice manuals, practical handbooks and professional growth titles.
Polit and Beck's Nursing Research by 
Evidence-based practice for nurses appraisal and application of research by 
A Nurse's Step-By-Step Guide to Transitioning to an Academic Role by 
Making Sense of Evidence-Based Practice for Nursing: An Introduction to Quantitative and Qualitative Research and Systematic Reviews by 
Introducing Research and Evidence-Based Practice for Nursing and Healthcare Professionals by 1. Find research instruments by subject heading:
Type "research instrument" into the search box and click on search. CINAHL will bring you to the subject heading for research instruments. Select and click on the Research Instruments subject heading in the list. There will be options listed underneath to search for Instruments by Name or Instruments by Type as well. Make sure to click on explode if you would like to include all of the narrower terms underneath Research Instruments. Click on Search Database.
Then search for the topic that you're interested in and combine the two searches together to get a set of results that are on research instruments and your topic of interest.
2. Find research instruments by publication type:
Conduct a search on your topic in CINAHL, (e.g. depression). Go to your search term in the search history table. Click on the Edit button. In the Edit Search window, go down to Publication Type and limit to either/both Research Instrument or Questionnaire/Scale. Click on Search.
3. Find research instruments using the Instrumentation (IN) search field:
Type in the name of the instrument into the search box, (e.g. Beck Depression Inventory) or a term that would show up in the instrument name (e.g. depression). Click on the drop down menu next to the search box and select IN Instrumentation from the list. Click on Search.
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by 
Anatomy of Writing for Publication for Nurses, Fourth Edition by 
Citation managers are software programs that you can use in order to store and utilize your references for a project.
Citation managers can help you:
For a fantastic overview of different citation managers and their features, go to the University of Toronto - Gerstein Library's Citation Management Comparison Table to learn more about the different options.
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