Nursing

Purpose
The LCC Nursing Program prepares the graduate to be qualified to practice as an associate degree registered nurse, and to be eligible to take the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX)-RN.

Learning Outcomes

Learning outcomes associated with the Library include:

• Uses electronic data bases and library reference materials to retrieve information to enhance basic nursing education and to meet course requirements.

Current library support

Liaison to the area
Juanita Benedicto
Reference Librarian
E-mail: benedictoj@lanecc.edu
Phone: (541) 463-5357
Web: http://www.lanecc.edu/library/staff/juanita/

Allocation
Nursing shares an annual allocation of $7,500 with the programs in Family and Health Careers. This amount goes towards books, videos, and journals.

Monographic support
The call number range for Nursing classifies in RT 1-120

During the summer of 2004, the entire medical collection, including nursing and its related fields, was weeded. This involved discarding outdated materials and updating the collection with current and recently published materials. In total, 609 volumes were withdrawn and 563 new titles were added. 8% of these volumes were nursing titles.

• New arrivals in Health, Medicine & Technology
• 2004 Acquisitions for Family and Health Careers

Journals

There are approximately 100 periodical subscriptions in nursing alone.

• print
• electronic

Interlibrary Loan

If the Library doesn't have a book or a journal, students and faculty still have access to them via our Interlibrary Loan service.

• Interlibrary loan request form
• Additional Services to Faculty

Online databases

Most notably, in 2004, the library acquired a subscription to Medline Fulltext, the primier database for research in medical fields.

These databases can be accessed remotely at any time, thus expanding their availability. Users need only identify themselves as Lane students, faculty, or staff. More information on our Remote Access page.

HEALTH DATABASES

• AltHealthWatch — This alternative health database provides full text for more than 140 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals. Provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.
• Health Source: Consumer Edition — Full-text for nearly 300 journals on many health topics, including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition — This database provides 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, as well as abstracts and indexing for more than 850 journals.
• Clinical Pharmacology — Provides access up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs.
• CINAHL - The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing and abstracting for over 1,600 current nursing and allied health journals and publications dating back to 1982, totaling over 800,000 records.
• MEDLINE — Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals. This database is current through 9/20/04 , and includes links to full-text articles
• Pre-CINAHL — A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to researchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing.

GENERAL DATABASES

• Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) — Provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.
• MasterFILE Premier — Provides full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. MasterFILE Premier also includes 315 full-text reference books, nearly 100,000 biographies, 76,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags.

Library instruction

Although there has been no library instruction up to date, instructors are encouraged to bring their classes in for a library orientation.

• Library instruction for classes
• Library instruction request form

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