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The Nightingale

Newsletter for Nursing

Fall 2024

Welcome Back!

Greetings Nursing Faculty!  My name is Joyce Smith and I am the Nursing Liaison Librarian.  As the liaison librarian for your programs, I will be your primary contact for any library related questions or services. You are welcome to contact me regarding:

  • Collection Development 
  • Library Instruction 
  • Research Guides
  • Library Assignments
  • Online Library Tutorials

Please feel free to contact me at 386-312-4238 or by email at any time.  

New Databases

CINAHL Ultimate

CINAHL Ultimate is the definitive full-text database for nursing and allied health research. It offers full-text access to a substantial portion of the most frequently cited journals in the CINAHL index, surpassing other databases. This database has 1,815 active full-text journals covering over 50 nursing specialties. Additionally, it features full-text quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, continuing education modules, nursing instructional videos, and more.

CINAHL Ultimate Video from EBSCO

 

BioDigital Human on Ovid

Often referred to as “Google Maps for the Human Body,” the BioDigital Human platform is a medically accurate, virtual map of the human body—composed of over 8,000 individually selectable anatomical structures, 600 simulated health conditions, and a toolkit to map and visualize data. This fully embeddable, cloud-based software is available in eight languages, on any desktop, mobile device, or in AR/VR for use within any educational or clinical workflow.

Featured Database

Introducing Brainfuse- SJR State's New Tutoring Service!

Brainfuse is now live and has replaced Tutor.com as SJR State's online tutoring service. Students can access Brainfuse from Canvas and the Tutoring page

 

Looking for Tutoring services on campus?  SJR State students can get free tutoring in math, writing, and science in each campus Library when classes are in session. Subjects and hours vary by campus. Visit our Tutoring Services page for more information.

Introducing Packback -SJR State's New Digital Writing Lab Service!

 

Packback is a pedagogy partner that uses technology as a “means to an end” to shorten feedback loops for students and instructors, improve writing and critical thinking skills, and cultivate student-centered, trust-based educational learning environments.

APA Citation Tutorial

 

APA Citation Tutorial

At SJR State, many of your courses will require you to use the American Psychological Association's (APA) citation and format style for your academic work. This tutorial provides an overview of APA style. It is an excellent place to start to learn about using the APA format.

Research and Resource Guides

The librarians create Research Guides or LibGuides, to guide students to quality information in a variety of areas based on subject matter or course.  The Research Guides generally include book and database recommendations as well as citation assistance, websites and more.  Contact Joyce Smith if you would like to have a Guide created for one or more of your courses.  

Enhance Your Courses with Library Content

Want to embed a film from Swank or an article from CINAHL into Canvas?  The Library now has the capability to integrate content into Canvas for you.  We can embed databases, articles, streaming videos, images, chapters and more. 

Enhance Your Courses with Library Content

We are also available to ...... 

  • Create resource pages in Canvas that include databases of interest for your specific class
  • Create captioned video tutorials for any library resource
  • Update existing links to library content in Canvas

Contact me if you would like to advantage of any of these new services!

Collections

The titles in our curated collections consists of books selected to support SJR State courses and programs. The collection has been created to serve as a starting point for research or to help brainstorm. The best way to find out what books we have is to search our Online Catalog. Click on an image below to access the titles included in the collection.

Title Collections for Nursing Programs