LIBRARY GUIDE TO NRS 6741 - Foundations Forensic Nursing

Research and read lots of information to develop your understanding of the topic.

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Relevent ebook collections:
Law, Politics & Government
Health & Biological Sciences

For research databases try suggested databases from OneSearch or BROWSE SUBJECT LIST of DATABASES.

Possible choices:

• CINAHL Plus with Full-Text  -comprehensive and highly-authoritative database for research in nursing and health sciences
• ERIC  -resources in education including journal articles from research/scholarly and practitioner literature
• Health Reference Center Academic - provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, includes multimedia
• Nursing Resource Center  Brings together disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams and core encyclopedia texts. 
• PubMed (MEDLINE) - The National Library of Medicine's free interface for MEDLINE the premier database for biomedical journal citations
• PsycINFO  - literature in psychology and related disciplines such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work.
• Social Sciences Full Text
  Includes full-text articles from over 300 journals, covering concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences: 1983 - present. How to export to RefWorks
• Social Work Abstracts
  Indexes more than 450 social work and human services journals. Coverage: 1965 to present. How to export to RefWorks

Government sites

• Center for Disease Control and Prevention - National Center for Health Statistics
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention - Populations 
• Medline Plus   produced by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health
• Healthy People 2020 - Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion 
• World Health Organization

Legal documents

• LegalTrac - major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals
• LexisNexis Academic Universe - LEGAL - court decisions, legal codes, legal news, and law journals, both at the state level and federal level.
• Google Scholar - Legal documents limit

Examples forensic nursing titles:
HARDCOPY

• Forensic nursing: a handbook for practice - 3rd floor RA 1155 .F63 2013,
  
• Forensic nursing - 3rd floor RA 1155 .P97 2006
• Atlas of Sexual Violence - 3rd floor RC 560 .S44 A85 2013 
• Family violence and nursing practice - 3rd floor RT 120 .H86 2004, Book

EBOOKS

• Atlas of Forensic Pathology - ebook 
• Clinical forensic medicine: a physician's guide - ebook
• Healthcare crime: investigating abuse, fraud, and homicide by caregivers - ebook
• Forensic pathology for police, death investigators, attorneys, and forensic scientists - ebook

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RefWorks is available through the Library subcriptions. You create a personal database of references, generate a bibliography from your list of references & automatically format in any common citation style.Refworks tutorials

Citation Style Guides:

• APA Formating and Style Guide with examples (by Owl at Purdue)
  • Sample APA paper
  • APA style tutorial

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Database tutorials
CINAHL
PUBMED

EBP tutorials:
Evidence-Based Practice Quick Reference Guide (Alaska Medical Library)
Evidence-Based Practice in the Health Sciences: EBP Nursing Tutorial (UIC

Analyzing Sources & Literature Review tutorials:
Essential Elements of a Literature Review guide (UC Santa Cuz)
Conducting Literature Reviews - detailed guide (USC)
Critically Analyzing Information Sources (Cornell Libraries)