Subject - Health
Health subject guides
This guide will help you to find and use all the available useful sources to help you get just what you need fast!
Begin with Library Catalogue
When you get your first assignment, look for information on your topic in Library Catalogue – the Library’s search engine. Remember to log in first, so you can search all collections, place holds, add titles to an eShelf and renew your loans.
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Some suggested terms to use
- Nursing
- Nursing research methods
- Ethics in nursing
- Health Care
- Professional nursing
- Infection Control
- Dosage calculations
- Pharmacology
Research
Depending on your assignment you may also need to use one of our specialised databases. Databases are extremely useful tools for researching specific information, recent information and scholarly articles.
Featured Resources
ClinicalKey for Nursing provides access to 80 nursing textbooks, 55 relevant journals, drug monographs, clinical overviews, procedure videos and more.
Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination contains head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques in a series of 18 videos. Have a look in the Videos & More tab for a full list of the videos available from this great resource.
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This is just a selection of the thousands of ebooks available
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Binan Goonj : Bridging cultures in Aboriginal health by A newly-updated edition of the definitive textbook on Aboriginal Health issues Binan Goonj, 3rd Edition: Bridging cultures in Aboriginal health is a comprehensive Indigenous health text which addresses key topics in a clear and accessible manner. Thoroughly updated and revised, the latest edition of Binan Goonj sheds light upon the many multidisciplinary topics within the complex field of Indigenous health. With chapter titles including Empowerment in Aboriginal Health and Aboriginal Communities Today, this authoritative health resource has been widely adopted as a teaching text across Australia. Despite years of research, policy changes and interventions, it is widely documented that the health status of many Aboriginal people remains the poorest in Australia. Binan Goonj, 3rd Edition: Bridging cultures in Aboriginal health explores the processes and practices underlying this situation, while providing practical strategies to work towards redressing it. This latest edition will engage a diverse readership and challenge students and health professionals alike to examine their own values and the use of power in Australian societyPublication Date: 2010 -
Clinical Psychomotor Skills (3-Point) : Assessment Tools for Nurses by Clinical Psychomotor Skills is presented in a concise and easy-to-read style, offering a unique blend of solid theoretical content and practice based competency tables, to enable students and instructors to translate their skills and knowledge into provable competencies that fulfill the required standards.Publication Date: 2018 -
Essential Clinical Skills: Enrolled Nurses by Essential Clinical Skills, clearly and succinctly explains each key clinical skill and provides a structured format for students to undertake many of the skills taught in HLT54115. Each skill is mapped to the key units of competency as well as the Indicators in the Standards for Practice: Enrolled Nurses (2016), where relevant. Using this text, students and instructors are able to translate their skills and knowledge into demonstrable competencies that fulfil the required standards.Publication Date: 2018 -
Foundations of Nursing: Enrolled Nurses by Publication Date: 2018 -
Fundamentals of Nursing : Australia and New Zealand Edition by With up-to-date coverage of the Registered Nurse Standards of Practice (2016) and key pedagogical features such as unique 'Spotlight on Critical Thinking' questions, this text challenges students to assess their own nursing practice and apply the concepts to real-life clinical settings.Publication Date: 2019 -
Health Services Assistance : Supporting Nursing in Acute Care by Health Services Assistance provides complete coverage of core and elective units for assisting in nursing work in acute care. Exercises throughout the text provide students with the means to self-assess and extend their skills and knowledge.Publication Date: 2017 -
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Living with Chronic Illness and Disability : Principles for Nursing Practice by With a complex range of chronic illnesses identified as national health priorities in Australia and New Zealand, nurses and health professionals are increasingly caring for people with chronic disease and disability across a variety of care settings. Living with Chronic Illness and Disability: principles for nursing practice, 3rd edition has been fully revised to reflect the most current local and international research, focusing on a range of common chronic illnesses and disabilities, including: stroke, cancer, heart disease, mental illness, dementia, diabetes, asthma and obesity. The third edition provides a holistic framework and models of care that are essential for caring for individuals and families living the lif ealtering journey of chronic illness and disability.Publication Date: 2017 -
Potter & Perry's Fundamentals of Nursing - Australian Version, Fifth Edition by Potter and Perry's Fundamentals of Nursing, 5e continues to set the standard as the leading fundamentals text for Australian and New Zealand nursing students. The 5th edition has been carefully revised and restructured, focusing on the very important basics - the fundamentals of care that are the building blocks on which professional nursing practice is built. Potter and Perry's Fundamentals of Nursing 5e will prepare students for the dynamic and evolving nature of nursing practice and will challenge them to become competent, engaged and agile nurses of today, leading the way to be effective nurses of the future.Publication Date: 2017 -
Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing by Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing has established itself as Australia and New Zealand's foremost mental health nursing text and is an essential resource for all undergraduate nursing students. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect current research and changing attitudes about mental health, mental health services and mental health nursing in Australia and New Zealand. Set within a recovery and consumer-focused framework, this text provides vital information for approaching the most familiar disorders mental health nurses and students will see in clinical practice, along with helpful suggestions about what the mental health nurse can say and do to interact effectively with consumers and their families.Publication Date: 2016 -
Child Health Nursing by For courses in Pediatric Nursing. A comprehensive survey of family-centered pediatric nursing care Child Health Nursing: Partnering with Children & Families promotes excellence in nursing care for infants, children, and adolescents—in hospitals and in the community. It focuses on the importance of partnering with families to adapt care plans for children based on their age, health status, and social and cultural influences.Publication Date: 2018
Useful websites
Industry organisations
- Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association
- Association of Private Nursing Services
- Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia
- Department of Health
- Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
- World Health Organisation
Support services
Videos
Check out these great videos from the Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination
- Head-to-Toe Assessment: Adult
- Head-to-Toe Assessment: Infant
- Head-to-Toe Assessment: Child
- Head-to-Toe Assessment: Older Adult
- General Survey and Vital Signs
- Skin
- Head, Eyes, and Ears
- Nose, Mouth, and Neck
- Thorax and Lungs
- Cardiovascular System
- Peripheral Vascular System
- Breasts and Axillae
- Abdomen
- Male Genitalia, Rectum, Anus, and Prostate
- Female Genitalia, Anus, and Rectum
- Musculoskeletal System
- Nervous System: Cranial Nerves and Motor System
- Nervous System: Sensory System and Reflexes
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Health Databases
New Nursing Items
Guide to the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements: Development, Interpretation, and Application
Marsha Diane Mary Fowler, American Nurses Association (2015)
The moral of the story: an introduction to ethics, 9th ed.
Rosenstand, N. (2020).
Critical Conversations for Patient Safety: an Essential Guide for Health Professionals, 2nd ed.
Levett-Jones, T. (2019).
Statistics for Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing
Kim, M., Mallory, C., and Valerio, T. (2020)
Introduction to Nursing Research : Incorporating Evidence-Based Practice
Boswell, C., Cannon, S. (2018)
Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing
Craig, J., Dowding, D. (2019)
Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications : A Nursing Approach
Escott-Stump, S., Dorner, S., Grodner, M., Long Roth, S., (2015)
Transcultural Nursing : assessment and intervention
Giger, J., Haddad, L. (2020)
Placement Learning in Community Nursing - E-Book : A Guide for Students in Practice
Harris, J., Nimmo, S., Holland, K. (2013)
Saunders Nursing Drug Handbook 2021
Kizior, R., Hodgson, K. (2021)
Placement Learning in Older People Nursing E-Book : A Guide for Students in Practice
McGarry, J., Clissett, P., Porock, D., Walker, W., Holland, K. (2013)
Learning in Practice for Nursing Students
Mills, J., Brand, D. (2017)
Foundations of Nursing Research
Nieswiadomy, R., Bailey, C. (2017)
The Intersection : Where Evidence Based Nursing and Information Literacy Meet
Phelps, S., Hyde, L., Planchon Wolf, J. (2018)
Understanding the work of nurse theorists : a creative beginning
Sitzman, K., Eichelberger, L. (2017)
Leadership in nursing practice : changing the landscape of health care
Porter-O'Grady, T., Weberg, D. R., Mangold, K., & Malloch, K. (2019)
Critical thinking tactics for nurses : achieving the IOM competencies
Rubenfeld, M., & Scheffer, B. (2015)