Find Books and Articles

START by exploring Library OneSearch (includes books, ebooks, academic journals, newspapers)

*Try search terms like "health promotion" AND "at risk" AND teen* (using * will get teens, teenages etc) and use facets on left to narrow by source type - choose "Limit to articles from scholarly publications, including peer-review"

Recommended databases:

CINAHL Complete
A full-text database for nursing and allied health journals from 1937 to the present. It includes access to scholarly journal articles, dissertations, magazines, pamphlets, evidence-based care sheets, books, and research instruments.
PubMed (MEDLINE)
MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's free bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.
Cochrane Library
This is a collection of databases that contain evidence for healthcare decision-making. Includes systematic review abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations and individual clinical trials.

Selected Resources

Government Website:

Healthy People 2030 -
A collaborative microsite that brings together information on leading health indicators, social determinants of health, health disparities, and sets national objectives for improving health and well-being.

Relevant Textbook:

McDermott-Levy, R., Jackman-Murphy, K., Leffers, J., & Cantu, A. (2023). Environmental Health in Nursing. (3rd Ed.) Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments Incorporated.

Other Books:

Community health nursing: an alliance for health / edited by Stephen Paul Holzemer, Marilyn Klainberg.:Jones & Bartlett Learning, c2014

Foundations of nursing in the community: community-oriented practice / Marcia Stanhope, Jeanette Lancaster.Mosby/Elsevier, c2010.

See more library books and ebooks on community health nursing.

Associate Professor, Nursing Librarian

Mariela Hristova

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Subjects: Nursing