Alt Health Watch focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.

CINAHL provides indexing for journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. CINAHL Plus with Full Text covers nursing, biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and allied health disciplines.

Electronic Journal Center Full text journals online. For Health Sciences and Medicine Journals only, click on "Health Sciences and Medicine" under "Journals by Subject."

HealthSource: Consumer Edition is a rich collection of consumer health information.

HealthSource: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals. This database includes Clinical Pharmacology, which provides monographs for U.S. prescription drugs, herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs.

MEDLINE contains the most recent years of the National Library of Medicine's online database of references to journal articles in the health sciences. Coverage includes medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.


Web Resources

APA Formatting and Style Guide
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01
APA formatting information from the OWL at Purdue University.

APA Formatting from Lakeland Library
http://library.lakelandcc.edu/apacitationguide.html
Simplified APA guidelines and samples from Lakeland Library.

CINAHL Tutorials
http://support.ebscohost.com/cinahl/
Online tutorials on use of the CINAHL database provided by the publisher, Ebsco.

Daily Med
http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/about.cfm
Drug label information provided by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) to the National Library of Medicine.

Essential Nursing Resources
http://nln.allenpress.com/pdfserv/i1536-5026-028-05-0276.pdf
Published by the Interagency Council on Information Resources for Nursing, this list "includes print, multimedia, and electronic resources to support nursing practice, education, administration, and research activities."

Health on the Net
http://www.hon.ch/
Search engine designed to provide current, accurate medical information via the internet. Both consumer and professional access is provided.

Health, 2008
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus.htm
"The Health, United States series presents national trends in health statistics. Each report includes an executive summary, highlights, a chartbook, trend tables, extensive appendixes, and an index."

Healthfinder.gov
http://healthfinder.gov/
Reliable consumer health information provided by the Department of Health and Human Services.

Healthy People 2010
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hphome.htm
Healthy People 2010, a comprehensive, nationwide health promotion and disease prevention agenda, highlights leading health indicators and encourages improvement in the health of the nation's citizens.

LabTestsOnline
http://www.labtestsonline.org/
"A public resource on clinical lab testing from the laboratory professionals who do the testing."

MedlinePLUS
http://medlineplus.gov/
Links to reliable consumer health information provided by the National Library of Medicine.

Merck Manuals Online
http://www.merck.com/pubs/
Online full text access to the various Merck manuals.

National Center for Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
Search for statistics on any health issue.

National Guideline Clearinghouse
http://www.guideline.gov/
"The National Guideline Clearinghouse is a comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents."

PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?otool=ohiolink
Provides linkage of OhioLINK databases to the comprehensive listings of the online version of MEDLINE.

Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses
http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/
"Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient care—not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members." This site provides the downloadable full text of the various sections of the handbook.

Videos of Surgical Procedures
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/surgeryvideos.html
Medline PLUS provides actual videos of an extensive list of surgeries from various medical facilities throughout the country.