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- Streaming Video: Emergency Medical Technician—Career Q&A: Professional Advice and InsightWhat is it like to be an emergency medical technician? In this Career Q&A video interview, Jeff Broyles talks about his career path, what he does on the job, and the keys to success working as an emergency medical technician. He also offers candid advice on breaking into the profession as well as insight into the industry’s biggest challenges and how the field may change in the next ten years.
- Films On Demand Nursing Collection This link opens in a new windowThe Nursing Streaming Video Collection is designed to help nursing students excel in their studies and pass licensure exams. It features titles from Cengage Learning, Wolters Kluwer Health, NEVCO, and others and includes videos on nursing foundations; nursing skills; patient care and interventions; diseases, disorders, and disabilities.
- Black's Medical DictionaryBlack's Medical Dictionary has been the best-selling medical dictionary for over 100 years. It is invaluable as a home reference and for all who need clear explanation of medical terms: nurses, health care professsionals and students, health service management, actuaries, lawyers and journalists.
- Merriam-Webster's Medical DictionaryA concise, up-to-date guide to the essential language of medicine. Contains More than 38,000 entries and covers the latest brand names and generic equivalents of common drugs.
- Prehospital Emergency CarePrehospital Emergency Care publishes peer-reviewed information relevant to the practice, educational advancement, and investigation of prehospital emergency care, including the following types of articles: Special Contributions - Original Articles - Education and Practice - Preliminary Reports - Case Conferences - Position Papers - Collective Reviews - Editorials - Letters to the Editor - Media Reviews
Selected Electronic Books
Paramedics! by Call Number: EbookISBN: 9780335244515Paramedics! Test yourself in Pathophysiology is the essential self-test resource to help paramedics revise and excel in their pathophysiology modules and exams.
Paramedics! by Call Number: EbookISBN: 9780335243709Paramedics! Test yourself in Anatomy and Physiology is the essential self-test resource to help paramedics revise and excel in their anatomy and physiology modules and exams.
Paramedics by Call Number: EbookISBN: 9780335242672This accessible book will help both practising and student paramedics prepare to deal with 25 of the most commonly seen pre-hospital care scenarios, as well as to revise for practical exams.
- Electronic Books in Emergency MedicineLink out to electronic books on Emergency Medicine.
Other Recommended Resources
- Journals in Emergency MedicineLink out to full-text, peer-reviewed journals in emergency medicine.
- Nursing Reference Center Plus This link opens in a new windowVideos, Care Plans, Core Measures Topics and More. Master nursing best practices with the premier source for evidence-based information designed specifically for nurses. Unmatched in scope, nurses use Nursing Reference Center Plus to get answers to questions quickly, access care plans, watch video demonstrations, strengthen nursing skills, earn continuing education credits and much more.
- R2 Digital Library This link opens in a new windowThe R2 Digital Library offers thousands of health science eBooks from the leading publishers. With one of the most extensive selections of Doody’s Core Titles, the R2 Digital Library has the content essential to the modern health science library. These high yield and focused eBooks are carefully sourced to provide the specialized content demanded by health science collections.
- Nursing Ebooks@Ovid This link opens in a new windowAccess to the entire "Made Incredibly Easy" nursing texts, videos, and case studies.
- Centers for Disease Control and PreventionCDC works 24/7 to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S. Whether diseases start at home or abroad, are chronic or acute, curable or preventable, human error or deliberate attack, CDC fights disease and supports communities and citizens to do the same.