Nursing Resources
Lewis P. Gundry Health Sciences Library
900 S Caton Ave, Baltimore MD 21229
Phone: 667-234-3134
Email: stagneslibrary@ascension.org
1st Floor (main building)
Library Open Hours: 7:30AM - 4:00PM (Monday - Friday)
After Hours Access limited (door unlocks at 6:30AM weekdays)
Librarian: Lucinda Bennett
Nursing Databases & Platforms
Ascension Library Resources - Nursing Specific Services: Use this page to access Ascension-wide licensed resources of interest to nurses, as well as, market libraries offering additional resources and services.
All Databases indexed via Ovid can be found here. These include: Ovid Nursing Database, Joanna Briggs & Medline
Other Helpful Resources
PICO Search
The Maryland Nurse
"The Maryland Nurses Association is the only state-wide, non-profit, multipurpose professional membership organization for Registered Nurses in Maryland.
The primary purpose of MNA is to provide direction and a voice for the profession of nursing in Maryland...The Maryland Nurse Journal is a publication of the Maryland Nurses Association exclusively for the nurses in our state. It is a peer reviewed journal. Each article is blindly reviewed by two peer reviewers."
Full issues are linked below:
Inclusive Language & Mental Health Environments
Healthcare is an ever-changing and dynamic environment. It is important that providers in all fields learn the language and skills to compassionately care for patients of vast backgrounds and mental health status. The following PDFs are crafted by the American Hospital Association to help healthcare workers practice such language. Take a look and feel free to print, share and spread the word in your department.
"For individuals with substance use disorders, this means seeing them as a person battling a
severe illness and providing hope. Our words reflect our thinking and make a profound difference in the outcome of care. Let’s choose to inspire and support our patients."
"Stigma, along with structural racism and societal and economic factors, can prevent people from
reaching out for help or getting the care they seek. Using culturally/racially aware language can
help remove negative and stereotypical labels and improve patient-provider encounters."
"Language matters in compassionate care, including what you say behind closed doors with
co-workers, friends or family. Understanding the prevalence of mental health conditions is an
important step in how you perceive individuals and in destigmatizing mental illness."
"Using people-first language means speaking in a way that primarily acknowledges
the person, rather than the illness or disability. In other words, individuals with mental illness and disabilities are first and foremost ... people!"
"After experiencing a traumatic event, many people struggle to share their experiences and reactions
with others. When they do open up, it may result in several reactions for you, making it difficult to know
how exactly to respond. What you say matters in helping the survivor feel safe and understood."
Suicide Destigmatizing Language
"Language matters in compassionate care, especially in behavioral health care, and that doesn’t
mean just what you say in front of a patient. What you say behind closed doors with co-workers
can be the seed for stigma and perpetuate discrimination against a person based on a physical
or mental health disorder. The topic of suicide, and the sometimes-stigmatizing language around
it, must be handled with compassion. The language you use can be an important factor in whether or not a person decides to seek care."
Top Nursing Journals
Citation Matcher
Nursing Books from Our Print Collection
Catalog: Search for Print Resources
Basic Search Hints for Articles
PubMed is always a great place to begin a search for nursing literature. PubMed is the National Library of Medicine database of over 26,000 citations of peer-reviewed literature. Use the basic search bar to begin your search. Jump to the link below to get the web-based PubMed home page, or access it from this URL embedded here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
To add the nursing journal filter, click on the Topic-Specific Queries and scroll down near the bottom of list to choose Nursing literature, before you type in your concept terms.
If you wish to search our subscription databases, go to the Quick Links or Discover Search for directly choose from the several options such as CLINICALKEY NURSING, Joanna Briggs in the OVID platform, Nursing Reference Center, or the advanced search option for the many nursing journals in OVID platform).
Our library has many subscriptions to nursing journals, including the OVID Nursing Collection, as well as journals not included in that collection such as Orthopedic Nursing, AORN, European Journal of Oncology Nursing, Simulation in Heathcare, Critical Care Nursing Quarterly, Journal of Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nursing, AACN Critical Care, JONA, Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, and many others. Having trouble finding something? Use the Library Search Request Form or Email us at stagneslibrary@ascension.org
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PUBMEDDo a simple search using each key concept in your PICO, and connect all of them with "and", "or" or "not". To search only the Nursing literature, please choose the Nursing filter within PubMed.
PubMed Clinical Queries - "This tool uses predefined filters to help you quickly refine PubMed searches on clinical or disease-specific topics. To use this tool, enter your search terms in the search bar and select filters before searching."
The National Council of the State Boards of Nursing has valuable information regarding the Nurse Practice Act for each state, toolkits, and other resources to help nurses understand and adhere to best practice guidelines and laws. Click on the link below to go to the web site. Then follow the online directions to get the particular state you wish to find, Maryland or others.
The Maryland Nurse Practice Act is available free on line at the Maryland General Assembly web site under Statutes ----> Health Occupations ----> Section 8. The entire section 8 is called the Nurse Practice Act. The URL is below:
Articles of Interest - From our Subscriptions
Mosher, R. (2025). Enhancing Perioperative Care. AORN Journal, 121 (3), 198-207. doi: 10.1002/aorn.14303.
Paige Twenter - 22 October 2024 / Becker's Hospital Review
"Advocate Health recently reimagined the role of nurse managers, said Jane Dus, DNP, RN, senior vice president and chief nursing officer of the system's Midwest region.
Nurse managers are often balancing large spans of control, she said, and as nurse managers lead staff, they simultaneously manage patients, throughput, quality, budgets and everyday issues. Advocate employs about 44,000 nurses and Dr. Dus leads 22,000 of them.
Over the last 18 months, Advocate asked its nurse managers, What do you do that you shouldn't be doing? What do you like to do? What's taking up your time?
"We know that they are our future leaders, so we stepped back and took time" to examine their roles, Dr. Dus told Becker's.
The questions revealed six untapped areas to help frontline leaders. These included defining scope and span of control, such as how many people report to them; managing pace of change; and minimizing the burden of onboarding.
The fourth focus was elevating nurses to practice at the top of their licenses, which involved removing tasks they shouldn't be doing, such as filling out repair skips or tracking down equipment, Dr. Dus said.
The final two areas of improvement were reviewing auditing processes and strengthening the partnership between nurses and the support department.
"The things that I'm most proud of is that we've aligned on standard scopes now that all our managers — assistant managers, managers, directors — have the same job descriptions, the same scopes, we're all doing the same job," Dr. Dus said.
From these discoveries, the system created a manager relief program, which is a float pool for nurses to "stretch" into a manager role for a few weeks or months to stabilize a unit.
Before, when a nurse manager left, another nurse manager of one unit would typically be assigned a second unit. Now, nurse managers can continue to focus on their own unit while a float nurse manager helps out until a permanent nurse manager is hired.
"That has been very successful," Dr. Dus said. "They do such a good job, but it's a really unique role, having these managers float around and fill in these open positions. It really just helps support our frontline managers."
Since discovering these opportunities and acting on them, Advocate has seen a decline in nurse manager turnover and a stabilization in staffing levels.
To continue to support its workforce, Advocate is piloting several AI models, including an ambient nurse listening pilot. Read more about how the system helps its frontline nurses with virtual nurse programs, here."
Ho, K. , Lam, K. , Xia, W. , Liu, Q. , Chiu, S. , Chan, G. & Li, W. (2025). Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Complementary and Alternative Medicine on Nausea and Vomiting in Children With Cancer. Cancer Nursing, 48 (2), 89-98. doi: 10.1097/NCC.0000000000001239.
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Artificial intelligence in nursing : A journey from data to wisdom
McGrow, K. (2025). Artificial intelligence in nursing. Nursing, 55 (4), 16-24. doi: 10.1097/NSG.0000000000000165.
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Use this form to requestNursing Web Resources - Associations
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Academy of Medical Surgical NursingA website of resources for professional development, certification and practice resources
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American Nurses AssociationA one-stop shopping web site for nurses with information on credentialing, ethics, practice, and advocacy.
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Emergency Nurses AssociationA web site for certification, practice resources and educational materials.
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Society of Pediatric NursesA professional web site for pediatric nurses with information regarding practice, education, and advancement
Nursing Research
In 2020 AJN launched a new series of articles focused on nursing research:
“The series is designed to give nurses the knowledge and skills they need to participate in research, step by step. Each column will present the concepts that underpin evidence-based practice—from research design to data interpretation. The articles are accompanied by a podcast offering more insight and context from the author.”
This series is an excellent complement to the EBP series that began in 2009 and that is often recommended reading for nursing research councils or nurse residency programs. (American Journal of Nursing)
"How Does Research Start?" Capili, Bernadette. AJN, American Journal of Nursing: October 2020 - Volume 120 - Issue 10 - p 41-44
"Selection of the Study Participants" Capili, Bernadette. AJN, American Journal of Nursing: January 2021 - Volume 121 - Issue 1 - p 64-67
"Sampling Design in Nursing Research" Curtis, Alexa Colgrove and Keeler, Courtney. AJN, American Journal of Nursing: March 2021 - Volume 121 - Issue 3 - p 53-57
Briggs
These helpful guides on how to access Briggs Drugs in Pregnancy have been shared by a fellow Ascension Librarian in Wisconsin.
How to get to Briggs Drugs in Pregnancy & Lactation through Lexicomp
Briggs Drugs in Pregnancy & Lactation – via LexiComp [Direct Link]
Nursing Web Resources - Sites & Articles
"Our goal is to collect and share images of dermatological conditions in all skin types, with an emphasis on including those who have been traditionally excluded in medical education."
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The Book Shelf at NLMThis is a vast online collection of open assess books for all fields in medicine, allied health, and nursing.
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Educational interventions for preventing vascular catheter bloodstream infections in critcal careEvidence maps, systematic review, and economic evaluation of the pervasive problem.
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The Future of Nursing -- An assessmentAssessing the progress on the Institute of Medicine's report, "The Future of Nursing".
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Global guidelines for the prevention of surgical site infectionsWorld Health Organization guidelines adaptable to any setting, anywhere as an intervention to reduce SSI.
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Nonpharmacologic interventions for agitation and aggression in dementiaExamining the efficacy, comparative effectiveness and adverse effects of drug-free interventions in patients with dementia.
The Maryland Nurse Practice Act
The National Council of the State Boards of Nursing has valuable information regarding the Nurse Practice Act for each state, toolkits, and other resources to help nurses understand and adhere to best practice guidelines and laws. Click on the link below to go to the web site. Then follow the online directions to get the particular state you wish to find, Maryland or others.
The Maryland Nurse Practice Act is available free on line at the Maryland Government web site.
The URL is below: