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Previewing new resources, eJournals, and eBooks

New Database: CINAHL Plus with Full Text

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The library has upgraded the CINAHL platform to CINAHL Plus with Full Text. CINAHL Plus with Full Text includes rigorous curation and indexing of open access (OA) journals, which has resulted in a growing collection of 1,443 active global OA journals. Once validated and certified for inclusion, these OA journals are treated with high-quality subject indexing and sophisticated, precise/accurate full-text linking.  

CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides more than 370 nursing and allied health active full-text, non-open access journals indexed in the CINAHL® Database. In addition, CINAHL Plus with Full Text also includes an expanded version of the CINAHL® index including more records, additional journals, records dating back to 1937 and expanded content.

New eBook: The AJCC Cancer Staging System, 9th Edition

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The new 9th version of the AJCC Cancer Staging System (formerly known as the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual) is now electronically available in the library. The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) made an important change to how it updates and releases Cancer Staging content. The AJCC shifted from a Cancer Staging Manual to a Cancer Staging System and moved away from Editions to Versions.

The new AJCC Protocol Version 9 content is presented in a streamlined, easy-to-use format including synoptic staging report format, tables, explanatory notes, and illustrations. All disease sites in the 8th Edition Cancer Staging Manual remain current until replaced with Version 9.

New eBook: Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses (2023)

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Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses provides comprehensive, up-to-date drug information in well-organized, nursing-focused monographs. It also includes extensive supplemental material in 14 appendices, thoroughly addresses the issue of safe medication administration, and educates the reader about 50 different therapeutic classes of drugs.

The 18th edition now includes Medication Safety Tools and even more information about health care’s most vulnerable patients: children, the elderly, pregnant women, and breast feeding mothers. More pharmacogenomic information has been added throughout numerous monographs to guide the nurse in selecting and monitoring various drug therapies.