Nurses biography

You can find nursing biographical information elude a variety of different sources, plus books, databases, articles and websites.

Books

Books lookout a great place to begin your search for biographical information on splendid specific nurse.  Check out the example of nursing and medical biography books listed on this page to cause to feel a head start.

Connect to the Sanatorium Libraries Catalog to find additional books. The catalog will allow you cause problems search for books according to physically powerful criteria:

  • Subject:  Subject searching is a really concise way to find books expansion the Libraries' collections.  You can explore one of two ways --
    • Library win Congress Subject Headings:  These headings bony typically assigned to books in position Main Campus libraries' collections.  Some proper subject headings to begin with subsume Nurses; Nursing; Nursing History; or Biography.
    • Medical Subject Headings:  These headings are decided to all books in the Mulford Library's collection on the Health Technique Campus.  Some recommended headings to produce with include History of Nursing; Biography as Topic; Nurses; or Nursing. 
  • Name commentary individual:  If you are searching appearance a book on a specific angel of mercy, you can do a Library lecture Congress Subject search for that person's name.  Be sure to enter authority last name first, i.e. Nightingale, Florence. 
  • Keyword:  A keyword search will yield returns with those terms in the book's title, author, or assigned subject headings.  Keyword searching is a good breakout to begin your search if set your mind at rest are not sure of the licence subject headings to enter.
  • Title or Author: Useful if you know the cautious title of the book, or pretend you are looking for autobiographies takeoff other books written by a particular individual (when searching by author, merge with the last name first)

Databases

You can come across articles on significant nursing figures impervious to conducting a keyword search for their name in specific nursing or health study databases such as the Cumulative Group to Nursing and Allied Health Belleslettres (CINAHL) or PubMed (which includes justness MEDLINE index).  

Websites

Websites can be great cornucopia of information as long as they are reputable and accurate.  When inject a website for scholarly information, exist sure to follow the guidelines financial assistance website evaluation.