Nursing and Allied Health Sciences

• Journal & Article Indexes
• Background Information
• Citation and Style Guides
• Selected Journals & Magazines
• Associations

• Subject Headings
• Call Numbers
• Nursing Web Resources
• Government Websites
• Health Statistics
• Nursing Programs

Nursing and Health Indexes

• CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature)
eTherapeutics (includes the CPS)
• Evidence Based Medicine Reviews
• LWW Total Access Journal Collection
Medline
• Pubmed
Other Health Science databases

Multidisciplinary & News Indexes

• Academic Search Premier
• Canadian Business and Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete
• Canadian Periodical Index (CPI.Q)

Selected Online Reference Tools

• Dictionary of Nursing
• Dictionary of Public Health
• Oxford Companion to the Body
• Oxford Reference Online

Selected Journals & Magazines

Cloverdale=C, Langley=L, Richmond=R, Surrey=S, Online =O

• American Journal of Nursing - O
• Canadian Journal of Nursing Research - S,O
• Canadian Journal of Public Health - S,O
• Canadian Nurse - S,O
• Evidence-Based Nursing, S,O
• Journal of Community Health Nursing - S,O
• Journal of Gerontological Nursing - L,O
• Journal of Nursing Administration - S,O
• Journal of Nursing Education - S,O
• Journal of Palliative Care - S,O
• Nurse Educator - S,O
• Nursing - S,O
• Pediatric Nursing - S,O

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Handbooks

• Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses Call number: WY 85 C35 2008 at Surrey and it's online as well.
• Compendium of pharmaceutical and specialties (CPS) Call number: QV 738 DC2 2010 most recent in Reference; older in general collection. Online too.
• Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses Call number: QV 735 D44 2009 in general collection upstairs in Surrey.
• Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures Call number: GN 307 E 354 in Reference (on the first floor) in Surrey.
• Encyclopedia of psychology Call number: BF 31 E524 in Reference at Surrey, Langley and Richmond.
• Historical encyclopedia of nursing Call number: WY 13 S66 in Reference (on the first floor) in Surrey.
• Mosby's dictionary of medicine, nursing and health professions Call number: WY 13 M89 in Reference (on the first floor) in Surrey.
• Taber's cyclopedic medical dictionary Call number: W 13 T18 most recent in Reference; older editions in the general collection at C, L R and Surrey.

Subject Headings

You can find more books through our Library Catalogue by searching under the following subject headings:

• Aged Psychology
• Cardiovascular Diseases
• Intensive Care Nursing
• Long Term Care
• Midwifery
• Nursing Ethics
• Obstetrical Nursing
• Pediatric Nursing
• Psychiatric Nursing

Call Numbers

If you don't have a particular book in mind, then try browsing our collections using the following call numbers:

WY 100: Nursing
WY 106: Community Health Nursing
WY 152: Geriatric Nursing
WY 159: Pediatric Nursing
WY 160: Psychiatric Nursing

Citation Styles

• APA
• MLA
• Other Citation Styles

• BC Centre for Disease Control
• BC Drug & Poison Information Centre
• BC First Nations Health Survey
Canadian Institute for Health Information
• Canadian Nursing History Collection Online
• Canadian Virtual Health Library
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
• Centre for Health Services & Policy Research
• Ethnomed
• Florence Nightingale Letters
• Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body

• Mayo Clinic Health
• Merck Manuals
• Nursing Ethics
• Nursing Theory
• Resources for Nursing & Other Health Disciplines
• Vanier Institute of the Family

• British Columbia Health Authorities
• Global Health
• Health Canada
• Healthlink BC
• Mental Health Commission of Canada
• Ministry of Health - BC 
• National Institutes of Health
• Public Health Agency of Canada
• Statistics Canada
• US CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

• BC Cancer Statistics
• BC Health Atlas
• BC Stats Interactive Data & Health Map
• BC Stats
• British Columbia Atlas of Wellness
• Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
• Database of Online Health Statistics
Disease Surveillance Online
• Guide to Health Statistics (Statistics Canada)
• Health Profile: Stats Can community level data
• Health Trends Statistics
• Smoking: Guide to the latest information
• Statistics Canada: Health in Canada
• Quick Stats by Topic: Canadian Institute for Health Information
• Statistics & Research - BC Centre for Disease Control
• Teenage Pregnancy: Guide to the latest information
• Tobacco Use Statistics - Health Canada
• Vital Statistics - BC

• British Columbia Nurses Union
• Canadian Association of Critical Care Nurses
• Canadian Nurses Association
• Canadian Nursing Students Association
• College of Registered Psychiatric Nurses of B.C.
• CRNBC: College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia
• International Council of Nurses
• Pan American Health Organization
• World Health Organization

• British Columbia Institute of Technology
• Douglas College Faculty of Health Sciences
• Trinity Western University
University of British Columbia School of Nursing
• University of the Fraser Valley
• University of Victoria School of Nursing