Welcome to the Nursing SVHM Libguide.
This is a library guide to resources and information for Nursing professionals at SVHM.
The guide includes journals, Ebooks, and online resources. For all your nursing information queries. Contact: Anna Lovang, anna.lovang@svha.org.au
Internurse is UK's largest collection of peer reviewed nursing content.
Home of the British Journal of Nursing.
Internurse (MA health care)
A collection of nursing journals in various disciplines provided by OVID, Wolters Kluwer.
Easy, full text access to journals such as:
Browzine is an easy-to-use interface for browsing journals and locating articles. Use on your PC, or via a free app or on your device.
See the Library 
Homepage for more information.
Access to Nursing subject titles here: Browzine - Nursing titles
SVHM Education and Learning site
Education and Learning (Intranet access only)
ROAM: an online platform that links patients and clinicians with research
Crosby-Nwaobi R (2021) Nursing Times [online]; 117: 12, 33-34.
"A new online platform developed by Moorfields Eye Hospital is making it easier to recruit patients to clinical trials and improving communication between researchers, clinicians and patients. This initiative won the Clinical Research Nursing category at the 2021 Nursing Times Awards"
Access through the Library Homepage
Online resources
Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Resources (non subscription)
Evidence-based practice resources used to assist healthcare professionals in clinical decision making. Included best practice information sheets, evidence summaries, systematic reviews and technical reports. Some free resources available.
Free resource: Joanna Briggs Special COVID-19 Collection
Social Care Online
The UK’s largest database of information and research on all aspects of social care and social work.
Includes nursing, home health care, prison care
Australian Indigenous Health InfoNet
Providing support to those working in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health sector by making research and other knowledge readily accessible. WA, Edith Cowan University
Nursing Research -SVHM
NRI -Nursing Research Interest group
(The NRI group supports nursing staff through St. Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne and Sydney to undertake research and professional development)
2021 NRI program
Resources: Supporting nurses to engage in research
(Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre)
Patient experience: "The Beryl Institute is the global community of practice committed to elevating the human experience* in healthcare".
Free registration to access, community and research resources. (US)
For nursing literature not held by the Library please use our ILL (interlibrary loan service)
For copyright reasons use our ILL form at: Request forms - Request articles or book chapters
Malnutrition, Sarcopenia, and Malnutrition-Sarcopenia Syndrome in Older Adults with COPD.
KALUŹNIAK-SZYMANOWSKA, A. et al. Nutrients, [s. l.], v. 14, n. 1, p. 44, 2022.
Abstract CINAHL
Malnutrition and Inadequate Eating Behaviour during Hospital Stay in Geriatrics--An Explorative Analyses of NutritionDay Data in Two Hospitals. GRAEB, F.; WOLKE, R. Nursing Reports, [s. l.], v. 11, n. 4, p. 929–941, 2021.
Abstract CINAHL
Feature articles on current relevant nursing issues. Articles marked with a (*) has an Australian focus. 
EBP - Evidence based practice
Evidence based practice - Step by Step (American Journal of Nursing Collection series)
Asking the Clinical Question, Steps of Evidence, critical appraisal processes)
Evidence based practice- SVHM Library Service
Overview of Evidence based practice. Jenny Fitzgerald, SVHM
Literature searching & Systematic Reviews
Literature searching - introduction SVHM Library Service
Systematic Reviews - introduction SVHM Library Service
Helen Wilding, SVHM Library Service. Set up a search strategy step by step. Systematic review process overview. Library tutorials.
Writing & Publishing
Writing for Publication for Nurses (English Edition)
An Easy-To-Follow Guide for Nurses. Copyright © 2000-2019 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., or related companies.
Research and Evidence based Nursing Practice Issue 3 & 4 (March-April) 2019
Nursing Update Bulletin, SVHM Library Service, Anna Lovang 2019, (Nursing research, writing & publishing resources)
Scholarly Writing Library Guide - SVHM Library Service
Danila Durante, SVHM Library Service. Resources for writing health professional clinical or non-clinical work. This could be an article for publication, an internal report, or a grant application.
Writing Abstracts
Center for Nursing Excellence: Writing Abstracts - University of Alabama at Birmingham (US)
Standards
ACORN Standards
ACORN Webinars
The Standards are supporting Australian perioperative nurses in delivering safe and high-quality perioperative care.
(Member registration, Open access to webinars)
Clinician's Health Channel resources (CHC)
Department of Health, VIC. (Set up your own account to freely access resources)
https://www2.health.vic.gov.au/clinicianshealthchannel
Carl de Gruchy Library, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
+613 9231 2541 Anna.Lovang@svha.org.au
Literature Searching, Database Literature Search Education, Nursing liaison
Monday, Tuesdays & alternate Wednesdays
Please see other Nursing related libguides.
| Nursing SVHM (main nursing guide) |
| Nursing Update (current awareness bulleting and special topic guide |
| Graduate Nurse (SVHM graduating nurses) |
| Nursing eBooks |
This libguide page supports nursing in all fields. The page is regularly updated with new information.
If you experience a broken link or would like to recommend a resource please contact the library on library.svhmlibrary@svha.org.au
