This guide is designed to assist CPTC students enrolled in the nursing program find relevant library materials and other resources related to their studies. If you are interested in enrolling in the nursing program, please click this link to find the program's information page.
There are many print and electronic resources available for students enrolled in CPTC's Nursing programs. Please contact the CPTC Librarian if you have any questions about this guide or library resources:
CPTC Library has a section of books dedicated to the nursing field. Please see the NURS collection for books selected specifically for a nursing student audience. A small collection of research based books are listed below.
Measurement in Nursing and Health Research, Fifth Edition
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Introduction to Nursing Research
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Succeeding in Literature Reviews and Research Project Plans for Nursing Students
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Understanding Nursing Research
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CPTC Library provides free access to searchable online databases for authoritative health and medical journals. Use your Canvas credentials to log on through the links below.
CINAHL indexes the top nursing and allied health literature available including nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association. CINAHL Subject Headings help users effectively search and retrieve information and follow the structure of the Medical Subject headings (MeSH) used by the National Library of Medicine.
This database provides access to authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH indexing with tree, hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It also features the AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.