LibGuides: Women's Health: Resources

Books

Clinical Practice Guidelines for Midwifery and Women's Health by Nell Tharpe
ISBN: 9781435603295
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Includes such topics as:
Exemplary midwifery practice -- Documentation of midwifery and women's health care -- Care of the woman during pregnancy -- Care of the pregnant woman with prenatal variations -- Care of the woman during labor and birthing -- Care of the mother and baby after birth -- Care of the woman with reproductive health needs:
Maternal, Neonatal, and Women's Health Nursing by Lynna Y. Littleton; Joan Engebretson
ISBN: 0585415927
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Includes discussions of foundations of nursing care and nursing in the contemporary health care system (issues in maternal, neonatal, and women's health).
Maternity and Women's Health Care by Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk; Shannon E. Perry
ISBN: 0323043674
Publication Date: 2007-03-01
Takes a collaborative care approach to maternal, newborn, and women's health nursing that emphasizes the nurse's role on the care team.
Varney's Midwifery by Helen Varney; Carolyn L. Gegor; Jan M. Kriebs
ISBN: 0763718564
Publication Date: 2003-06-12
Varney's Midwifery covers the provision of primary care to women from puberty through senescence, including the maternity cycle and primary care of the well newborn.
What Nurses Know ... Menopause by Karen Roush
ISBN: 9781935281832
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
What Nurses Know...Menopause sheds new light on this natural biological process and its symptoms from a trusted source: nurses.
What Nurses Know ... PCOS by Karen Roush
ISBN: 9781932603842
Publication Date: 2010-04-06
What Nurses Know PCOS, will shed new light on this common condition and its symptoms from a trusted source: nurses.
Women's Health During the Childbearing Years by Peggy Sherblom Matteson
ISBN: 0323009158
Publication Date: 2001-03-09
Prepares students to provide realistic, holistic care while supporting the woman's efforts at self-care and empowering her to be a partner in her own healthcare.

Websites

Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Contains 6,550 full-text journals (with 5,890 of them peer-reviewed). Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
Subject Coverage:
animal science, anthropology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, music, pharmaceutical sciences, philosophy, physics, psychology, religion, science, technology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology
Dates of Coverage:
PDF content dating back as far as 1887
Update Frequency:
daily
Size:
over 13,780 indexed and abstracted journals
CINAHL {Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature} This link opens in a new window
CINAHL (Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature) indexes and abstracts more than 900 nursing, allied health, biomedical, and consumer health journals. It includes healthcare books, nursing dissertations, standards of professional practice, nurse practice acts, and educational software.
Subject Coverage:
nursing and allied health
Dates of Coverage:
1982 to present
1986 to present (for records with abstracts)
Update Frequency:
monthly
Size:
more than 670,000 records
MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
Produced by the National Library of Medicine and covers journal literature published internationally in all areas of medicine.
Subject Coverage:
experimental medicine, clinical medicine, nursing, psychiatry, health services administration, dentistry, nutrition, toxicology, education, pathology, veterinary medicine
Dates of Coverage:
1965 to present
1975 to present (for records with abstracts)
Update Frequency:
monthly
Size:
more than 12,000,000 records
more than 4,800 biomedical journals
Note:
Uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree hierarchy, subheadings, and explosion capabilities.
PubMed (for MSU) This link opens in a new window
Is a huge index database for biomedical literature maintained by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This link is to a customized version for Morehead State University which allows for quick links within the interface to articles from the online journals to which the library subscribes.
Subject Coverage:
medicine and biology
Dates of Coverage:
varies by journal title
Update Frequency:
varies by journal title
Size:
more than 23 million citations

Note:
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PubMed Central This link opens in a new window
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Is a digital archive of peer-reviewed life sciences journal literature written in English that was created and is maintained by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Subject Coverage:
life sciences
Dates of Coverage:
varies by journal title
Update Frequency:
varies by journal title
Size:
more than 7 million articles
UpToDate This link opens in a new window
A clinical decision support resource which includes access to over 11,000 topics in over 22 specialties.
"UptoDate is a well-known resource in the medical field. This database functions as a clinical decision support tool providing quick access to information that can help the clinician at the bedside. The information provided in each of the many clinical topics is considered evidence-based and has gone through a peer-review process before the summary of findings is presented. Additional tools such as drug interaction monitoring, clinical calculators, images, and practice changing updates are also highly sought after in the community of medical and health science users."
-- review from ccAdvisor

Journals

Archives of Women's Mental Health
Most recent 1 year not available. From Springer: "Archives of Women’s Mental Health is the official journal of Marcé Society, the North American Society for Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynecology (NASPOG) and the International Association for Women's Mental Health (IAWMH)."
BMC Women's Health
From Springer: "BMC Women's Health is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of the health and wellbeing of adolescent girls and women, with a particular focus on the physical, mental, and emotional health of women in developed and developing nations."
Breast Disease
Most recent 9 months not available. From IOS Press: "Breast Disease is a peer-reviewed journal publishing papers on topics such as basic cellular and molecular biology, epidemiology, genetics, clinical research, imaging, and social and legal issues."
British Journal of Midwifery
From the journal: "British Journal of Midwifery (BJM) is the leading clinical journal for midwives, promoting excellence in midwifery and women's health."
Midwifery
From Elsevier: "Midwifery publishes the latest peer reviewed international research to inform the safety, quality, outcomes and experiences of pregnancy, birth and maternity care for childbearing women, their babies and families."
Women's Health
From SAGE journals: "Women’s Health is an open access, peer-reviewed international journal that focuses on all aspects of women's healthcare."
Women's Health Issues
From Elsevier: "Women's Health Issues (WHI) is a peer-reviewed, bimonthly, multidisciplinary journal that publishes research and review manuscripts related to women's health care and policy. "