Subject Guides: NUR 100: Intro to Professional Nursing (Zuckerman): Background Reading

Reference Sources: Print

All-In-One Nursing Care Planning Resource by Pamela L. Swearingen
Call Number: POR Reference RT49 .A45 2016
Dictionary of Nursing Theory and Research by Bethel Ann Powers; Thomas R. Knapp
Call Number: POR Reference RT81.5 .P69 2006
Publication Date: NEWER EDITION AVAILABLE ONLINE
Ferri's Clinical Advisor 2013 (book) by Fred F. Ferri
Call Number: USM POR Reference RC48 .F47 2013
Nursing 2017 Drug Handbook by Lippincott
Call Number: USM POR Reference RM300 .N87 2017
Sparks and Taylor's Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual by Linda Phelps
Call Number: USM POR Reference RT48.6 .S66 2017

Library Catalog (URSUS)

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Reference Sources: Online

Dictionary of Nursing Theory and Research (ebook) by Bethel Ann Powers; Thomas R. Knapp
Publication Date: 2011
Encyclopedia of Nursing Research (ebook) by Joyce J. Fitzpatrick & Meredith Wallace (Editors)
Publication Date: 2006

Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health

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