LibGuides: Nursing (Graduate): Evidence Based Nursing

What's on the Evidence Based Nursing Page?

Point of Care Tools

Dynamed This link opens in a new window
Dynamed contains clinically-oriented, evidence-based summaries written by medical experts for point-of-care use by physicians, medical students, nurses, pharmacists, physical therapists and other health care professionals.
BMJ Best Practice This link opens in a new window
BMJ Best Practice combines the latest research evidence, guidelines and expert opinion – presented in a step-by-step approach and covering prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. BMJ Best Practice gives medical professionals the best available information for any clinical situation. Regularly updated, it draws on the latest evidence-based research to offer step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention.

KidneyWise Toolkit
From the Ontario Renal Network. The KidneyWise Clinical Toolkit promotes person-centered and high-quality primary care in chronic kidney disease (CKD) across Ontario. It provides primary care providers with guidance on the identification, detection and management of people with chronic kidney disease in primary care; guidance on who will likely benefit from a referral to nephrology; recommendations on identifying people at high risk of developing chronic kidney disease, ordering appropriate tests to confirm diagnosis, and how best to manage the disease to help prevent further progression and reduce cardiovascular risk.
Mydermpath + app
From the American Academy of Dermatology. The app features interactive algorithms for generating differential diagnosis using a clinicopathological approach.
Choosing Wisely
Choosing Wisely Canada is the national voice for reducing unnecessary tests and treatments in health care.
Patient Decisions Aids
Patient decision aids are tools that help people become involved in decision making by making explicit the decision that needs to be made, providing information about the options and outcomes, and by clarifying personal values. They are designed to complement, rather than replace, counseling from a health practitioner.
Pathway
Pathway is a point of care tool with content available as part of a free trial.

Drug & Natural Products Resources

CPS (formerly called RxTx) This link opens in a new window
Thank you to Dr. Dale Dauphinee for partnering on this subscription. E-therapeutics+ includes the following products: Therapeutics, based on the publication "Therapeutic Choices", edited by Jean Gray, e-CPS Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties, Lexi-Interact Online, a drug interactions program, patient information and e-Therapeutics Mobile offering two applications for your handheld devices.
Lexi-Comp Online with AHFS (Medicine) This link opens in a new window
Lexi-Comp Online is a comprehensive drug information source and clinical, point-of-care tool. Lexi-Comp®ONLINE™ offers access to the following clinical databases: Lexi-Drugs®, Lexi-Drugs®International, Pediatric Lexi-Drugs®, Geriatric Lexi-Drugs®, Lexi-Natural Products, Lexi-Pharmacogenomics, Lexi-Infectious Diseases, Lexi-Poisoning & Toxicology Lexi-NBCA Exposures, Lab Tests & Diagnostic Procedures, Clinician’s Guide to Diagnosis Clinician’s Guide to Internal Medicine, Clinician’s Guide to Laboratory Medicine and Clinical Modules: Interactions (Lexi-Interact), Patient Care Module: Printable Patient Leaflets, (Lexi-PALS ) providing Drug, Disease, Condition and Procedure information for your patients, Drug Identification (Lexi-Drug ID), I.V. Compatibility (Lexi-I.V. Compatibility), Calculations (Lexi-CALC) and Web Search (Health Search Portal)
Micromedex This link opens in a new window
Summaries and detailed monographs for drugs, alternative medicine, toxicological managements, reproductive risks, and acute/emergency care. Includes access to Martindale and RED book. Clinical use not permitted
Natural Medicines This link opens in a new window
Formerly Natural Standard and Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database. Resource on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary alternative and integrative therapies.

Bugs and Drugs - Alberta Health Services
Drug Shortages Canada
The website for reporting drug shortages and discontinuations in Canada. The Food and Drug Regulations require drug sellers to report when they are not able to meet demand for a product or when they stop selling a product.
SwitchRx
SwitchRx aims to provide healthcare professionals with the most current and useful information to guide their clinical practice when adjusting their patient's psychotropic treatment regimens. This resource features suggested tapering and titration schedules, clinical tips, detailed information on drug pharmacokinetics, and other precautions.

More Evidence Based Practice Resources

JAMAevidence This link opens in a new window
Includes access to Users' Guides to the Medical Literature, education guides and learning tools. Evidence-based medicine (EBM) integrates the best available evidence with clinical experience that allows clinicians to recommend, and their patients to make, informed choices consistent with their values. JAMAevidence helps identify the best available evidence by providing guides to the systematic consideration of the validity, importance, and applicability of claims about the assessment of health problems and the outcomes of health care

Sigma Repository
The Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library is the realization of Sigma Theta Tau International’s goal to offer nurses, in all roles around the globe, online access to reliable nursing information that can be easily utilized and shared. The ultimate goal is to make the library one of the most comprehensive resources for nursing information available.
Health-Evidence.ca
This site facilitates the adoption and implementation of effective policies/programs/interventions at the local and regional public health decision-making levels across Canada. It is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health.
JBI
JBI is a growing, dynamic international collaboration involving nursing, medical and allied health researchers, clinicians, academics and quality managers. JBI offers resources designed to meet the needs of service providers, health professionals and consumers by connecting the best available international evidence to the point of care.
RxFiles Long-Term Care & Residential Care: Evidence Based Resources
These resources are the result of a collaboration between RxFiles & CADTH