Nursing Resources: Allied Health Resources Handout

Allied Health Resources at Renton Technical College Library

Finding Paper and eBooks

• Go to the RTC Library Home page 
• Click on Library Catalog.
• Type in your search.

Finding Journal, Magazine, and Newspaper Articles

To find everything (ebooks, and journal, newspaper and magazine articles) all at once, type your search in the RTC One Search box on the library's main page. You will get some items that aren't what you wanted with this search.

To get more precise results, search individual databases: 

• Go to the RTC Library Database page  
• Click on the name of the database you want to search.  From off-campus you will need to log in, using your student email login and password.

Useful databases:

More Help On Finding Resources

RTC Nursing LibGuide at http://libguides.rtc.edu/nursing             

Finding Creditable Health Information on the Internet

These are US government websites that offer creditable, non-commercial health information:

•  Medline Interactive Videos and Tools - https://medlineplus.gov/videosandcooltools.html - Videos and tutorials on body systems and diseases, games, health calculators and more.

•  MedlinePlus - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/  - Research disease and wellness information in journal articles or a medical encyclopedia, check for drug information, or check your spelling in a medical dictionary.

•  MedlinePlus en Español - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/ - Póngase al día con su salud en  MedlinePlus. Health information in Spanish

• NLM Gateway - http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd - Use this one gateway to search PubMed, MedLine, Toxline and other internet medical databases.

• PubMed -  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ - Search databases for professional health literature. Many items are full text.

Other useful sites include:

• Washington State Department of Health Publications - http://www.doh.wa.gov/a-z_topics/a.htm -  Materials on health issues, from arthritis to zinc in human nutrition.

• RxList  - http://www.rxlist.com/drugs/alpha_a.htm   - Information on prescription drugs and their use and side-effects. Drug Digest includes similar information.

• Visual Medical Dictionary  - http://www.curehunter.com/public/dictionary.do - Definitions of medical terms and medications.

Look For The HON Code on Medical Web Sites

It can be difficult to decide which websites offer creditable health information.  The Health On the Net  Foundation has developed the HON Code.  Sites that display the HON Code symbol  have subscribed to a code of ethics and passed an inspection that requires the site to s cite the sources of their information s indicate the qualifications of the authors of the material s back up any claims made relating to benefits of a practice or medication s make sure their site is accessible s make sure that the authors can be contacted s identify the site's funding sources  and s  distinguish advertising from editorial content. (From the HON Foundation http://www.hon.ch/.)

Look for the HON symbol when you are evaluating a web site. If it appears, you know that the site has been evaluated for the qualities listed above.

Questions?   Please contact the Library at (425) 235-2331, or librarian@RTC.edu.