let’s test drive nursing resource center

Let’s Test Drive Nursing Resource Center

Nursing Resource Center• Gale’s Nursing Resource Center supports nursing programs at two-year community

colleges, four-year colleges and vocational education high schools, as well as public libraries nationwide.

• Nursing Resource Center is a comprehensive resource that nurses, students, and instructors trust to deliver quality results because it was designed to match the “Nursing Process”.

You’ll find• Disease overviews, assessments, diagnostics support, intervention procedures and

skills, drug encyclopedias, care plans, illustrations, videos, and more!• More than 1,000 nursing and medical journals, with a strong emphasis on full text

titles cited in CINAHL. • Whether preparing students for clinical exams, providing homework help, or NCLEX-

RN test prep Nursing Resource Center is a care provider’s must have!

Let’s take a look at an example

Home Page

Let’s say we have a nursing student researching COPD. We’ll use Basic Search as Keyword.

Search term - COPD

Results ScreenResult Screen for search on “COPD”-Tabbed results are aligned with Nursing Process -Search found Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, the proper term for COPD- Starts with Diseases and Conditions tab for an overview of the condition

Assessments Tab Results

Assessments: This tab will list ways to gather subjective, objective, and patient assessment data when such information is relevant to your search.

Assessments

“Thorax and Lungs” document

- Document Table of Contents makes navigation simple

- Helpful photos/illustrations/videos are common

Diagnostics Tab Results

Diagnostics: The Diagnostics tab will list various means of gathering objective data from a patient beyond the physical assessment. These entries will provide overviews of diagnostic tests including rationales, patient preparation, normal and abnormal results.

Diagnostics

“Lung perfusion…” document

- Ample subheadings allow quick scanning of article to find information you need faster

Interventions Tab Results

The Interventions tab will list overviews of basic actions nurses might take to care for and monitor a patient with COPD.

Interventions

“Administering Pulse Oximetry”

- Client Case Scenarios ground care concepts in reality

Drugs Tab Results

The Drugs tab will display monographs for the drugs used to treat the diagnosis and the drugs that are contraindicated in some way for a diagnosis.

Drug Overviews

Drug Overview

- Drug information tailored to nurses, including sections on Patient Teaching, Dosages, and Side Effects

Care Plans Tab

Care Plans put all the actions needed to care for a patient with COPD in context

- NRC licensed 3 books of sample care plans from Delmar, a leader in nursing education

Care Plans

Care plans include rationales for nursing interventions – the “why” behind the actions

Multimedia tab

This tab will display short, dynamic videos of various diseases or conditions at work in the human body in three-dimensions. These videos bring anatomy and physiology to life in a way that flat illustrations in books cannot.

Multimedia

Bring anatomy to life! Watch an animation, read its full-text, and view labeled slides.

Journals tab

This tab will provide results from Nursing and Allied Health Collection, a resource that focuses on professional and scholarly journals for nursing and other allied health professions.

Journal Articles

Keep up to date on the latest medical news and research including peer-reviewed publications!

Additional Tools

Access useful reference documents in the Nursing Toolbox from the banner - wherever you are in the product!

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