Allied Health
Subject Specialist
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| Manjula Sitaram | |
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| Moreland Campus Librarian | |
| Phone: | (03) 9094 3325 |
| Email: | msitaram@kangan.edu.au |
Highly Recommended Resources
- Health and Well-being Online Resources
Learning objects created for Kangan students - Internet for Nursing - Online tutorial for nursing students on researching the Internet
- Anatomy & Physiology I Animations Movies & Interactive Tutorial Links - Interactive tutorials to assist students to learn human body systems and parts
- Intute - provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet
- Free Medical Journals -Free and in full-text unrestricted access to scientific knowledge from medical journals.
- Issues in Society - news and views on contemporary issues - justice, health, drugs, environment, welfare, family, economics, indigenous, civics, media rights, science, ethics and many other subjects.
Websites
- Salem Press
- Australian Podiatry Association
- Diversional Therapy Association of NSW
- Australian Nursing Federation is the national union for nurses, midwives, assistants in nursing and students
- ABC Health and Wellbeing
- Victorian government health and nursing websites
- Australian Government
- Better Health Channel Health related articles, fact sheets and more
- HealthInsite a wide range of up-to-date and reliable information on health
- Nutrition Australia Providing the latest on nutrition research, current food and health trends
- OH&S online videos - SafetyCare Montie has many safety programs which can be viewed, topics include fire awareness, personal protection, manual handling.
Catalogue
Search Library Catalogue - enter specific topics (e.g. nursing, health) in the keyword search box or look directly on the shelves at these numbers:
| Topic | Shelf number |
|---|---|
| Allied health personnel | 610.69, 610.737069 |
| Caregivers | 362 |
| Human Anatomy | 611 |
| Human physiology | 612 |
| Occupational Therapy | 615.851 |
| Speech therapy | 616.855 |
| Podiatry | 617.585 |
Online e.journals, Databases and Magazines
EBSCOhost Australia and New Zealand Reference Centre
Search Australasian magazines, newspapers and books
Titles include: Australian Nursing Journal, Australian Journal of Psychology, Nutrition & Dietics, Good Health and Medicine
Infotrac: General OneFile
Search articles from a large range of journals.
Titles include: Australian Nursing Journal , Medicine and Health, Holistic Nursing Practice, Medicine, Physical Therapy
(For off-campus access to online resources, please login here with your Kangan Institute student/staff login.)
Contact your subject specialist to book an online database training session or click on EBSCOhost or click on Infotrac (Power Search).
Dictionaries Oxford Reference
(For off-campus access to online resources, please login here with your Kangan Institute student/staff login.)
CD/DVD-ROMs
- InterAACtion [kit] : strategies for intentional and unintentional communicators - 362.196855 KIT
- Duty of Care - 362.1 DUT
- Don't Die Young - Human Anatomy DVDs - 611-616
- Human Body System Series - 611-612
- The Virtual center Medical Terminology series - 610-612
- Nurses (Australian Broadcasting Commission) - 610.730693 NUR
- Nurse TV (Nurses and Midwives episodes) - 610.730994 NUR
- Breaking the Chain: the transmission of infection control series, modules 1-9
Search Library Catalogue for additional DVDs and branch locations.
