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Transcultural Nursing: Reference Resources

Reference Books and Ebooks

Competency Checklists and Skill Sheets

Statistics

National Center for Health Statistics

The NCHS is the federal government's principal health statistics agency and a primary resource for tracking down information on health and health care for any group within the U.S. population

Office of Minority Health

The Office of Minority Health in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services provides much information on minority populations, including health reports and data profiles on specific ethnic groups and links to collections of searchable websites.

When to use Reference Resources

 

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Check out our reference collection! Reference collections consist of encyclopedias, dictionaries, images, and other print and digital resources that are used to look up quick facts about a particular topic.


Health Science Reference Resources

Background information and news articles on diseases, drugs, medical topics, and procedures.

 

Assessment, background information from medical and nursing reference books, care plans, competency checklists, cultural competencies, diagnoses, drug guides, images, patient education handouts, procedures, and skills.  

Nursing Reference Center Plus: Tutorial

 

Background information from medical encyclopedias on alternative medicine, cancer, diseases, genetics, medical conditions, mental health, psychology and substance abuse.

General Reference

Multi-Disciplinary Reference Resources (information on many different subject areas)

Credo

Background information in all subject areas from over 600 titles (general and subject-specific) including dictionaries, encyclopedias, biographies and more. [Additional content: extensive image collection.]

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Background information from reference books including biographies, company histories, encyclopedias, biographies and more.