Library Guides: Nursing & Health Sciences: Selected Journals & Books

Why Books?

Books are often more general and easier to understand than articles. In that books offer more background information and a wider array of viewpoints to select from, starting with a book can help you identify a guiding question or a larger conversation in which to situate your thinking, research, and writing.
Books are not daunting. They contain familiar "wayfarer markers" like a table of contents, chapter headings, and an index. These lead to the specific pages where the topic you are after is being discussed.
Books are at the heart of the scholarly conversations and debates about literature. In that they weigh and compare multiple viewpoint, their footnotes and bibliographies are springboards to additional insights.
Books are arranged following rules created by the Library of Congress. This organization helps you do research more effectively and efficiently. A librarian would be glad to review this with you.
Books are companionable. Many students value the ease with which they can be laid out on a desk, read, and absorbed.

Online Books & Reference

Use the library's home page to search for online books on any subject. After searching, just limit using the left-hand column to "source type" set to "ebooks."

Oxford Dictionary of Nursing
Publication Date: 2021
Covers many areas, with a particular focus on radiography, public health and the NHS, theoretical concepts familiar in nursing education, and key vocabulary. Clear and concise entries on nursing theory and practice, with comprehensive coverage of nursing-specific terms, as well as entries in the fields of medicine, anatomy, physiology, ethics, psychiatry, nutrition, dentistry, statistics, and pharmacology. Appendices covering the calculation of drug dosages, religion and nursing practice, recommended alcohol intake, and more.
Topographical and Pathotopographical Medical Atlas of the Human Body
Publication Date: 2020 (7th ed.)
Covers almost everything that is connected with the topographic and pathotopographic human anatomy, including original graphs of logical structures of topographic anatomy and development of congenital abnormalities, topography of different areas in layers, pathotopography, computer and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of topographic and pathotopographic anatomy.
Diversity, Cultural Humility, and the Helping Professions
Publication Date: 2022
This text explores the concept of cultural humility, which offers an exciting way forward for those engaged in the helping professions. In contrast to cultural competence, cultural humility challenges individuals to embark on a lifelong course of self-examination and transformational learning that will enable them to engage more authentically with clients, patients, colleagues, and others. The book traces our understanding of and responses to diversity and inclusion over time with a focus on the United States.