Research Guides: Health (Nursing, Medicine, Allied Health): Books

Books: Considerations for Searching

When searching for information in books, consider:

intended audience
- scholarly or popular
timeliness
- books usually have a longer publication cycle, so the information can assumed to be current to roughly 6-12 months before the date when the book was published
subject
- books that are located through databases and the library catalog will likely be tagged with keywords and subject headings that refer to the content of the book as a whole; therefore, it is important to think broadly in terms of what kind search terms you use

NYU Library Catalog (BobCat)

Search NYU Library Catalog

Search for books, journals, videos, etc. in our local libraries and special collections.

Books & More

eBook Collections

Multidisciplinary

Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Ebook Central is NYU's preferred ebook provider. Users can search, read, highlight, and annotate full-text books in many subject areas, including the social sciences and humanities.
SpringerLink This link opens in a new window
SpringerLink provides access to journal articles, books, and reference works in the biomedical sciences, life sciences, and computer sciences.
Oxford Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window
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Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) offers full-text access to scholarly (peer-reviewed) monographs published by Oxford University Press in a range of academic disciplines. Users can discover content that is Open Access and print out PDFs of single chapters for individual use.
Users can create an account and view ebooks
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
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Provides full-text access to high quality journals and books within the humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers.

Health Sciences

Geriatrics Care Online This link opens in a new window
CLICK ON Tab: "My Library" to view subscribed content via NYU:
Geriatric Nursing Review Syllabus: A Core Curriculum in Advanced Practice
(GNRS) (5th, 6th, and 7th)
Geriatric Nursing (5th Edition)
Geriatrics At Your Fingertips 2018
Geriatrics Evaluation & Management Tools
Doorway Thoughts: Cross-Cultural Health Care for Older Adults
Geriatric Care by Design
Geriatrics Review Syllabus(10th Edition)
AccessMedicine This link opens in a new window
AccessMedicine provides textbooks, examination and procedural videos, drug monographs, self-assessment rubrics, images, cases, patient education materials, and more. (Includes Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine.)

NCBI Bookshelf
Free online access to books and documents in life science and healthcare.
National Academy Press Online Texts in Medicine and Public Health
More than 3600 searchable online books

LWW Health Library: Premium Basic Sciences This link opens in a new window
Online textbooks with case descriptions, procedure videos, images, and lecture resources for study prep
MedOne Education This link opens in a new window
Thieme's MedOne-Education is a collection of textbooks and atlases of anatomy, including 100 E-textbooks for MD, PT, PA, and programs in health sciences, 42,000 images for download and re-use in teaching materials and course packs, videos of physical therapy manipulation techniques.
MedOne currently covers eight subject areas: Communication Science (Audiology), Education, Neurosurgery, Spinal Care, Radiology, Plastic Surgery, Otolaryngology and Ophthalmology.
R2 Digital Library This link opens in a new window
The R2 Digital Library is an eBook platform for health science collections featuring a comprehensive collection of medical, nursing and allied health eBooks.
Stat!Ref This link opens in a new window
Stat!Ref has full-text electronic information in latest editions of medical, chemical and pharmacological texts, dictionaries and indexes. Subjects range from emergency-critical care, nursing, oncology, pediatrics, point of care, primary care, psychiatry, pharmacology and cardiology. Included is a "Point of Care" tool: *Essential Evidence Plus, *developed for physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals on the front line of patient care, is a powerful, comprehensive clinical decision support system that integrates information on 9,000 diagnoses into healthcare professionals' clinical workflows.
Users must click "I accept" to be able to use this resource.
Books@Ovid This link opens in a new window
Books@Ovid provides access to full text ebooks available through Ovid. This includes LWW books, such as the Nursing Collection. Includes the Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice.

Selected Texts for Nursing

Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Twenty-First Edition (Vol. 1 & Vol. 2) by Joseph Loscalzo; Anthony S. Fauci; Dennis L. Kasper; Stephen Hauser; Dan Longo; J. Larry Jameson
ISBN: 9781264268504
Publication Date: 2022-03-28
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine is the world's most trusted clinical medicine text--and a superb resource for learning the art and science of clinical reasoning. Recognized by healthcare professionals worldwide as the leading authority on applied pathophysiology and clinical medicine, Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine provides the informational foundation you need for the best patient care possible.
Nursing Care Plans and Documentation by Lynda Juall Carpenito
ISBN: 0781770645
Publication Date: 2008-11-04
The Fifth Edition of Nursing Care Plans and Documentation provides nurses with a comprehensive guide to creating care plans and effectively documenting care. This user-friendly resource presents the most likely diagnoses and collaborative problems with step-by-step guidance on nursing action, and rationales for interventions. The author also details research for individuals and families undergoing diagnostic procedures or medical and surgical interventions. The book includes over 70 care plans that translate theory into clinical practice. A new chapter covers moral distress in nursing and presents strategies to reduce its effect on nurses. An innovative new chapter on wellness discusses how to improve hospitalized patient outcomes. Other new topics covered include nursing diagnosis risk for compromised human dignity.

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Books: Considerations for Searching

NYU Library Catalog (BobCat)

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eBook Collections

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Health Sciences

Selected Texts for Nursing