Nursing Resources

https://www.ahrq.gov/gam/index.html
"The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency charged with improving the safety and quality of healthcare for all Americans. AHRQ develops the knowledge, tools, and data needed to improve the healthcare system and help consumers, healthcare professionals, and policymakers make informed health decisions." (from website)

https://www.facs.org/quality-programs/cancer-programs/national-cancer-database/
From: The American College of Surgeons, Chicago, IL The National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) is a nationwide oncology outcomes database for over 1,500 hospitals in 50 states. NCDB data play an emerging role in hospital assessment of patient care, influencing patient care in 50 states.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
PubMed is a publicly-available database that indexes, and provides citations and abstracts to, millions of biomedical journal articles. It also includes full-text articles from Open Access (OA) and freely-available journals. PubMed itself does not provide full-text access to commercially published articles. As students, you were able to access medical articles because the library had subscriptions to the journals indexed in PubMed, and implemented the links to the full text articles, but all of that behind-the-scenes work was transparent to you. That access is not available to alumni once your JHEDID expires.

In HKNET, we have a database called ProQuest Medical Database that has full-text articles from nearly 2,000 medical journals routinely cited in Medline. You can run your searches in PubMed and then look up the citations in ProQuest Medical Database using the “Find a Journal” search. Or, you can simply run your subject/author searches in ProQuest Medical Database and view full-text articles from your results list. There is also a companion database called PubMedCentral that has over 6 millions freely available full-text articles.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
"PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature." Includes full-text access to BMJ.com, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and over two thousand other journals.

https://www.elsevier.com/open-access/open-access-journals
From the Elsevier website: “All articles in open access journals which are published by Elsevier have undergone peer review and upon acceptance are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.”

https://ojin.nursingworld.org/
From the website: "OJIN is a peer-reviewed publication that provides a forum for discussion of the issues inherent in current topics of interest to nurses and other health care professionals. The intent of this journal is to present different views on issues that affect nursing research, education, and practice, thus enabling readers to understand the full complexity of a topic. It is offered free to all nurses and health care professionals and anyone interested in health care issues."

https://www-proquest-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/intermediateredirectforezproxy
Provides full text and full image articles for nearly 2,000 key biomedical journals. It has a powerful search interface with 17 searchable fields, and it uses the MeSH subject thesaurus. Full text/full image coverage dates from 1992. Browse a list of titles included in Proquest Medical Database. (Please note: due to publisher restrictions, some journals are not available to alumni.) Click here to view a short video [2:13] with search tips!

https://www-proquest-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/intermediateredirectforezproxy
ProQuest's Alumni Research Library contains over 5,300 journal titles across all subject disciplines, including arts, business, education, humanities, literature, political science and psychology. For many of these journals, citations and abstracts are available from 1971 to the present. Full text coverage varies by journal, but typically begins with the mid-1990s. Browse a list of titles included in ProQuest Research Library. (Please note: due to publisher restrictions, some journals are not available to alumni.) Click here to view a short video [2:13] with search tips!

https://www-annualreviews-org.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/
Founded in 1932, Annual Reviews provides researchers, professors, and scholarly professionals with a definitive academic resource in 45 disciplines in the life sciences, physical sciences and social sciences. Annual Reviews saves you time by synthesizing the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in your field. Editorial committees comprised of the most distinguished scholars in the discipline select all topics for review, and the articles are written by authors who are recognized experts in the field. Annual Reviews publications are among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).

https://www-proquest-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/intermediateredirectforezproxy
This is a health and medical database from ProQuest for openly available content related to the COVID-19 outbreak.

https://data-sagepub-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/
SAGE Data, formerly Data Planet, is a collection of billions of multidisciplinary, global statistics for research and instruction. It is a data aggregation tool that allows you to create custom tables and charts.

https://journals-sagepub-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/
Provides full-text access to over 1,000 scholarly and professional journals spanning a wide range of subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine.

https://sk-sagepub-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/
Sage's ebook platform, where you will find a range of SAGE eBook and eReference content, including Health & Social Care and Public Health topics.

https://methods-sagepub-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/
Description from website: “SAGE Research Methods is the ultimate methods library with more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences, including the largest collection of qualitative methods books available online from any scholarly publisher. The site is designed to guide users to the content they need to learn a little or a lot about their method. The Methods Map can help those less familiar with research methods to find the best technique to use in their research. Built upon SAGE’s legacy of methods publishing, SAGE Research Methods is the essential online tool for researchers.”

https://methods-sagepub-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/cases
Description from website: “SAGE Research Methods Cases are stories of how real research projects were conducted. The collection provides more than 1100 case studies, showing the challenges and successes of doing research, written by the researchers themselves.  They explain why the researchers chose the methods they did, how they overcame problems in their research and what they might have done differently with hindsight: the realities of research that are missing from journal articles and textbooks. Cases are peer-reviewed and come with pedagogical tools including learning objectives and discussions questions. They can be used as a teaching tool to demonstrate a particular method and how it is applied in real research, or as inspiration to students who are preparing for their own research project.”

https://go-gale-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/ps/start.do?p=GDCS&u=jhu_alum&aty=ip
Primary sources from over 24 databases covering everything from literature to historic newspapers to public health archives to Indigenous Peoples of North America and more. Searchable separately or all at once.

https://www.aacn.org/

AACN Mission:

Patients and their families rely on nurses at the most vulnerable times of their lives. Acute and critical care nurses rely on AACN for expert knowledge and the influence to fulfill their promise to patients and their families. AACN drives excellence because nothing less is acceptable.

https://www.aacnnursing.org/
The AACN is the national voice for academic nursing. AACN works to establish quality standards for nursing education; assists schools in implementing those standards; influences the nursing profession to improve health care; and promotes public support for professional nursing education, research, and practice.

https://www.aanp.org/
"If you are an NP, NP student or person or organization interested in the NP role, AANP has the information, tools and resources you need. Shaped by the shared vision and challenges of our growing NP community, AANP aims to empower all NPs to advance quality health care through practice, education, advocacy, research and leadership."

https://www.nursingworld.org/
"The ANA Enterprise leverages the combined strength of the American Nurses Association (ANA), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), and the American Nurses Foundation (the Foundation), to empower nurses everywhere."

https://www.aha.org/
AHA is the national organization that represents and serves all types of hospitals, health care networks, and their patients and communities. Nearly 5,000 hospitals, health care systems, networks, other providers of care and 43,000 individual members come together to form the AHA.

https://www.nursingworld.org/ancc/
The ANCC Accreditation program recognizes the importance of high-quality continuing nursing education (CNE), interprofessional continuing education, transition to practice programs, and skills-based competency programs. Around the world, ANCC-accredited organizations provide nurses with the knowledge and skills to help improve care and patient outcomes.

https://www.aonl.org/
From the website: "As the national professional organization of more than 10,000 nurse leaders, the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) is the voice of nursing leadership. AONL advances the professional development of nurse leaders through innovative and competency-based learning experiences. Serving nurse leaders at all stages of their career journey, AONL offers in-person and online programs for executives, directors, managers and clinical leaders."

https://www.apna.org/?pageid=1
From the website: "The American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) was founded in 1986. In the ensuing years, APNA has grown to be the largest professional membership organization committed to the practice of psychiatric-mental health (PMH) nursing and wellness promotion, prevention of mental health problems, and the care and treatment of persons with psychiatric disorders."

https://www.cardionursing.com/
From the website: "Everyday RNs and APRNs are challenged to care for and manage increasingly complex patients with acute and chronic illness. With courses from Cardiovascular Nursing Education Associates you will receive the highest quality education with relevant and practical application, leading to expertise, confidence, and recognition in your clinical practice."

https://www.nahnnet.org/
NAHN is committed to advancing the health in Hispanic communities and to lead, promote and advocate the educational, professional, and leadership opportunities for Hispanic nurses.

https://nbna.org/
"NBNA mission is to provide a forum for collective action by African American nurses to represent and provide a forum for black nurses to advocate for and implement strategies to ensure access to the highest quality of healthcare for persons of color."

https://www.nln.org/
"Dedicated to excellence in nursing, the National League for Nursing is the premier organization for nurse faculty and leaders in nursing education. The NLN offers professional development, networking opportunities, testing services, nursing research grants, and public policy initiatives to its 40,000 individual and 1,200 institutional members. NLN members represent nursing education programs across the spectrum of higher education, health care organizations, and agencies."

https://www.apha.org/apha-communities/member-sections/public-health-nursing
The Public Health Nursing Section advances this specialty through leadership in the development of public health nursing practice and research. The Section assures consideration of nursing concerns by providing mechanisms for interdisciplinary nursing collaboration in public health policy and program endeavors.