LSC-Tomball: Library Research Guides: Patient Care Technician: Find Articles

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Databases - to search to find articles on your topic

CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Major full-text database in Nursing and Allied Health, with over 560 journals, and more than 600,000 articles dating back to 1937.
STAT!Ref This link opens in a new window
Full-text electronic medical library; included 26 titles including CPT Data Files, Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses, 5-Minute Clinical Consult, ICD-9-CM, ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, Burket's Oral Medicine, AHFS Drug Information (2020), APhA DRUGInfoLINE, Pharmacology World and Scientific American Medicine.
Most titles can be viewed by one person at a time, so if a title is unavailable, wait a few minutes and try again.
MEDLINE with MeSH This link opens in a new window
Medical research; National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database with Medical Subject Headings. No full text.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated twice a week.
Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine This link opens in a new window
Full-text from a variety of medical, nursing and allied health sources: journals, reference books, pamphlets.
IBM Micromedex Healthcare Resources This link opens in a new window
(Truven Health Analytics) Reference for drugs and drug interactions, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine; includes patient information
Science Online This link opens in a new window
This full-text, weekly multidisciplinary scientific journal publishes original peer-reviewed research and noteworthy science news (1997 to the present).
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary database; full text of articles from over 5,300 journals, magazines and newspapers, plus image collections.

Citation Style Links

You may need to use a variety of citation styles for your classes.

An excellent citation resource is available at the LSC Tomball Citation Resources Libguide

There are numerous links to three other common citation styles that may be required in your classes. However, the ones below are excellent for checking your citations/references list/bibliographies.

APA Style

MLA Style

Chicago/Turabian Style

Online Journals

Go directly to the journals listed below or search for a journal by going to Search for Publication.

While these journals are primarily nursing related, you will be able to use them for your research in the field of Patient Care Technician and for your future career paths.

American Nurse Journal

BMC Nursing

Child Health Nursing Research

Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing

Connect: The World of Critical Care Nursing

Journal of Community Health Nursing

Journal of Community Nursing

Journal of Education and Research in Nursing

Journal of Nursing and Health

Journal of Nursing Practice

Journal of Perioperative Nursing

Journal of Trauma Nursing