Oncology Nursing Toolkit
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Patient Education | Web Sites | Cancer News
- CINAHL Plus (The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health) (Ebsco)
Scanning over 2,000 journals, provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health. Also provides access to healthcare books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, educational software and audiovisual materials
- Ovid
Collection of databases including:
- MEDLINE
The premier biomedical database, with citations from approximately 4,600 medical journals for the United States and over 70 other countries.
- EMBASE
EMBASE is a major biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 3,500 international journals. Some of its major subject strengths include drugs, alternative medicine, psychiatry, forensics, orthopedics, with European publications that complement MEDLINE.
- PubMed
National Library of Medicine's interface to MEDLINE
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Databases
- Alt-Health Watch
Full text database focusing on the complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. 142 periodicals, of which 27 are peer reviewed, are indexed and date back to 1990.
- Natural Standard
Evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies designed for clinicians to facilitate patient care decision-making.
- CAM Subset in PubMed and OVID MEDLINE
Use the MEDLINE Limit Functions to narrow down any search to the field of Complementary/Alternative Medicine
- New Cancer Drug Approvals/FDA Updates
An archive of FDA communications about cancer drugs, provided by the Oncology Nursing Society
- ONS: Chemotherapy Clinical Resource Area
Provided by the Oncology Nursing Society and dedicated to the safe delivery of cancer treatment via continuous infusion. Focuses on drug delivery, delivery of supportive care drugs and drug delivery in a palliative care setting.
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Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide
Provides broad coverage of the drugs commonly encountered by nurses and of drugs whose use commonly involves significant nursing intervention.
- Clinical Pharmacology Online
Provides peer reviewed, clinically-relevant information on drugs available in the United States , including off-label uses and dosages, herbal supplements, nutritional products, and new and investigational drugs
- Association of Pediatric Oncology Nurses (APON)
The Association of Pediatric Oncology Nurses (APON) is the leading professional organization for registered nurses caring for children and adolescents with cancer and blood disorders and their families. APON's mission is to provide and promote expert practice in pediatric hematology/oncology nursing to its members and the public at large.
- Oncology Nursing Society (ONS)
The Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) is a professional organization of more than 32,000 registered nurses and other healthcare providers dedicated to excellence in patient care, education, research, and administration in oncology nursing. The overall mission of ONS is to promote excellence in oncology nursing and quality cancer care.
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