All Guides: Nursing: Texts, Tutorials, &amp; Resources

Resources

Textbooks

The Pink Book: The 'Pink Book,' provides physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, and others with the most comprehensive information on routinely used vaccines and the diseases they prevent.

The Orange Book: From the FDA: Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations

Tutorials & Training

PubMed® Online Training: Tours, tutorials, webcasts, videos, classses and handouts from the National Library of Medicine on using PubMed.
NCSBN Video Library: Most of NCSBN's educational video productions are designed to provide clarity to nurses, nursing students and others about some of the most challenging issues nursing regulatory bodies (NRBs) face in their mission to protect the public.
Writing as a Professional Nurse: Most charting completed by nurses falls into one of three categories: 1) flowcharts; 2) care plans; and 3) narratives. Individual employers require different amounts of charting in these areas, (insert example here). The guidelines below are intended to be broad enough to cover many different levels of charting while still providing useful suggestions.

Pharmacology & Drugs

Nursing Journals & Drug Information

Peer-reviewed Nursing titles
A list of peer-reviewed / refereed full text nursing and medical titles available from Ferrum College's subscription databases.

AHFS Consumer Medication Information This link opens in a new window
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A trusted source and recognized standard for patient drug information, available in both English and Spanish. Published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, AHFS includes more than 1,000 drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers. Updated monthly.Searchable through Consumer Health Complete.