- General Guides
- Specific Resources
- Information gateways
- Drug Information
- Online tools and calculators
- Other selected topical Internet resources
- Associations & Professional Organizations
- Electronic Journals/Books/Reports
- Journal articles databases and indexes
- Journal publications
- Books
- Conferences
- Newsgroups & Discussion Groups
Information gateways
- BIOME - a collection of gateways specific to health and life sciences
- CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) Information Systems (To use the CINAHL database, please go to databases on nursing available in our Library)
- MedlinePlus Health Information
- NLM Gateway
- Scirus - Elesvier's science-specific search engine that indexes over 60 million science-related webpages
- TCM Guide ??¥?ɯ踪?T??n Chinese)
Drug information
- Facts and Comparisons - primary source for drug information
- Nurse's PDR Resources Centre (for drug information updates)
Online tools and calculators
- Body Surface Area Calculator
- Nursing Calculators
- Online Clinical Calculators (Division of General Internal Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin)
- Pharmacology Math
Other selected topical Internet resources
- Childbirth.org
- Emergency Nursing World
- Health Services/Technology Assessment Text (HSTAT, at NCBI Bookshelf) - full-text documents in health care decision making
- Links to Nursing Care Plans, Care Planning Software and Case Studies (compiled by Ellen Bosman, New Mexico State University, U.S.)
- MedlinePlus : Drugs & Supplements
- Merck Manuals including Merck Manual of Medical Information Home Edition and Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
- Microbiology Lab Index - Biology web site references
- Occupational Health for Healthcare Providers - sources about screening and prevention of accidents and infections, coping with shift work and stress, procedures to avoid needlestick, safe patient transport methods, dealing with hazardous material and more
- Online Birth Center - midwifery, birth, breastfeeding, child care
- The Nursing Theory Page (Nursing Theory Page Development Group)
- Pain.com
- R.A.L.E. Repository - digital recordings of respiratory sounds
- ReproLine : Reproductive Health Online - a service of JHPIEGO, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University
- Volunteer Nursing Opportunities in Developing Nations
- WinkingSkull.com - human anatomy study aid
Journal articles databases and indexes
- Free Medical Journals.com
- MedBioWorld
- NursingCenter : Journal Articles a portal to more than 700 continuing education activities and thousands of clinical articles from 50 leading nursing journals
- PubMed Articles on Nursing
- University of Texas : School of Nursing : Academic Journal Directory
Journal publications (Please also refer to our Library's Journal Collection )
- ???ꤤ¥Ä?? Zhongguo zhong yi yao bao (in Chinese)
- Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner Care (ARNP Care)
- American Association of Critical-Care Nurses : Publications
- Cells Alive!
- Chronic Wound Healing
- Dermatology's Nurse's Association
- Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education
- Introduction To Clinical Microbiology
- Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing
- Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care
- The MedScape Journal of Medicine
- Nurse Week
- Nursing Spectrum
- Nursing Theory Page
- Online Journal of Issues in Nursing
- Priority Lodge, Ltd - British Medical Online Journals
- Urologic Nursing
Books
- Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body 20th ed. Featuring 1,247 vibrant engravings from the classic 1918 publication
- Pathophysiology of the Digestive System
Faculty Librarian
Jane Tsang
Tel: (852) 2766-6859
Email: lbjane@polyu.edu.hk