LibGuides: Nursing: Patient Education Information

Patient Education Materials

AccessMedicine
Use the Patient Ed link
Create a free My Access account while logged in to access content without additional logins required. My Access also enables creation and saving of practice tests, saving and downloading images.
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health) Plus with Full Text
Try using this keyword search (patient education OR patient information) or the CINAHL Subject Heading "Patient Education" in combination with your search terms.
Clinical Pharmacology
Use the Patient Education drop-down menu.
ClinicalKey for Nursing
Use the Patient Education link.
ClinicalKey for Nursing allows users to "Create an Account". With the Personal Account, you can do things like add contact information or customize patient handouts, access My Folder where bookmarks and searches may be saved, customize News, and receive email alerts and announcements about ClinicalKey for Nursing.
Gale eBooks
Good source for background information!
Health Source: Consumer Edition
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Updated daily. Features searchable full text for nearly 190 journals as well as abstracts and indexing for over 200 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. Contains information on health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Also includes many health research books, including books published by the People's Medical Society. Other features include thousands of essays from Clinical Reference Systems.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
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Updated daily. Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1975.
UpToDate Lexidrug
Use the Patient Education link.

Mayo Clinic | Patient Care & Health Information
Information on diseases and conditions, symptoms, tests and procedures, and drugs and supplements
MedlinePlus | Health Information from the National Library of Medicine
"MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library, it brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand. MedlinePlus offers reliable, up-to-date health information, anytime, anywhere, for free."

NATMED PRO
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Provides high quality, evidence-based information on dietary supplements (including herbs, vitamins, and minerals), functional foods, diets, complementary practices (modalities), exercises, and medical conditions.
Salud en Espanol
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Salud en Español provee reportes completos basados en evidencias y fichas de datos relacionados a todos los aspectos de la salud y el bienestar. Reportes específicos por tema que cubren todos los aspectos de la salud, dan información general importante en relación a enfermedades, afecciones y procedimientos de diversos tratamientos.
Spanish Health provides evidence-based comprehensive reports and data sheets related to all aspects of health and wellbeing. Topic-specific reports covering all aspects of health give important general information regarding diseases, conditions, and procedures of various treatments.
Stat!Ref
See especially these titles: DETAILED DRUG INFORMATION FOR THE CONSUMER, GUIDE TO CULTURALLY COMPETENT HEALTH CARE, OXFORD DESK REFERENCE: CLINICAL GENETICS AND GENOMICS