1. A SAMPLING OF RESOURCES IN
Nursing Informatics
From Warner Memorial Library
Databases
Academic Search Elite (EBSCOhost)
Multi-disciplinary database offers full-text, dating from 1985 to present, for nearly 1,850 scholarly journals,
including more than 1,250 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study.
CINAHL (EBSCOhost)
Provides indexing and abstracting for over 1,600 current nursing and allied health journals and publications
dating back to 1982 and includes data through 11/14/03 .
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCOhost)
Contains nearly 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Features abstracts and
indexing for nearly 850 journals.
PubMed
Contains over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's, from MEDLINE and additional
life science journals. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
Also see Business Source Premier, Health Business FullText, and more
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Books found on the Library’s website.
Handbook of Informatics for Nurses & Health Care Professionals
By: Toni Lee Hebda, Patricia Czar, and Cynthia M. Mascara
Call Number: TR50.5 .H43
The Handbook serves as an introduction to the computer technology used by health care professionals, nurses, and
others. It is an easy-to-read guide that provides useful information on topics that range from basic computing concepts
and electronic communication, data integrity and security, to information system selection and implementation,
disaster planning and recovery, telehealth, and Informatics applications for education and research.
Internet Resource Guide for Nurses and Health Care Professionals
By: Toni Lee Hebda, Patricia Czar, and Cynthia M. Mascara
Call Number: RT5.5 .M37 2005
This concise, pocket-sized guide to the online health care environment provides background information about the
Internet, its services and various types of Internet resources available for nursing and health care professionals and
students. Updated with the most current resources, the resource is designed to provide students with the knowledge
and confidence needed to use the Internet for education, research, career and other purposes.
Informatics for the Clinical Laboratory: A Practical Guide
By: Daniel Cowan
Call Number: Net Library
This book highlights all aspects of laboratory informatics, with a focus on information management and the
corresponding hardware and technical processes involved. In addition to a comprehensive introduction on laboratory
informatics, the book emphasizes the importance of information and resource management as opposed to simply
covering the role of computers that support the information system.

2. Websites American Medical Informatics Association
http://www.amia.org/
Dedicated to developing and using medical technologies to improve
health care.
American Nursing Informatics Association
http://www.ania-caring.org/
ANIA's mission is to provide networking, education and information
resources that enrich and strengthen the roles of nurses in the field
of informatics.
American Telemedicine Association
http://www.americantelemed.org/
Resource and advocate promoting access to medical care for
consumers and health professionals via telecommunications
technology.
Health Informatics World Wide
http://www.hiww.org/
Contains a comprehensive health informatics index and links related
institutions and associations.
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
http://www.himss.org/ASP/
Provides leadership in healthcare for the management of technology,
information and change through publications, educational
opportunities and member services.
Journals
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
This journal is an open access journal publishing original peer- Check the A to Z Journal list
reviewed research articles in information management, systems on the Library’s website for
and technology in healthcare and the study of medical decision additional journal titles
making
Can’t find full-text
The Online Journal of Nursing Informatics
for the article you
OJNI is a free, international, professional, refereed publication need? Use Rapid
that focuses on nursing informatics in all practice settings. OJNI is ILL from the Li-
committed to addressing the theoretical and practical aspects of brary’s website to
nursing informatics as it relates to the art of nursing. CINAHL in- have an article
dexes the journal. delivered directly
Health Informatics Journal to your desktop.
Provides an international forum for the exchange of practice, in-
novation and research. Representing the interdisciplinary nature This publication created
of health informatics, the journal publishes peer reviewed contri- by
butions from the fields of informatics and telematics, the health Mark D. Puterbaugh
professions, computer science, engineering and management. Information Services Librarian
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to the education of medical professionals
Technology and Healthcare Prepared by
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Peer-reviewed journal of engineering, medical science and tech-
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nology.
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