Medication Administration
Subject Specialist
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| Manjula Sitaram | |
|---|---|
| Moreland Campus Librarian | |
| Phone: | (03) 9094 3325 |
| Email: | msitaram@kangan.edu.au |
Highly Recommended Reference Resources
- Drugs.com - drugs information online
- Rxlist - the internet drug index
- Mims Online - database for drugs and diseases information
- Digital Library - Health and Medicine
This free resource is a collection of databases which covers myriad useful health/medicine information. - Anatomy & Physiology I Animations Movies & Interactive Tutorial Links
Interactive tutorials to assist students to learn human body systems and parts - 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 - On campus access
- Victorian Government Health Information Drugs and Poisons Controls - common questions about changes to medication administration
- Victorian government health and nursing websites
- Australian Government
- Queensland Government Multicultural Health
- Australian Legal Information Institute - search for current information on Coroners Act 1985, Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981, Health Act 1958, Human Tissue Act 1982, Medical Treatment Act 1988, Health Professions Registration Act 2005
- Australian Rural Health Education Network - news and articles on rural health
- Better Health Channel - health related articles, fact sheets and more
- HealthInsite - a wide range of up-to-date and reliable information on health
- 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:
| Keywords | Shelf numbers |
|---|---|
| Medical Terminology | 610.14 |
| Nursing | 610.73 |
| Human physiology | 612 |
| Drugs administration | 615.6 |
| Diseases | 616 |
| Phlebotomy | 616.07561 |
| Psychiatric nursing | 616.890231 |
Online e.journals, Databases and Magazines
These two databases give you online access to thousands of journals with many in your field of interest. Search an entire database using keywords or search journals individually.
EBSCOhost Australia and New Zealand Reference Centre
Titles include: Australian Nursing Journal, Australian Doctor, Lancet, Nutrition & Dietics
Infotrac: General OneFile
Titles include: Nursing Times, Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal, Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, Australian Health Review, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Australian Nursing Journal, Journal of Nursing Management
(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)
Magazines
- Australian Nursing Journal
- Geriaction
- Journal of Dementia Care
- Journal of Wound Care
- Nursing
- Nursing Review
- Nursing Times
Dictionaries
(For off-campus access to online resources, please login here with your Kangan Institute student/staff login.)
DVD/Videos
- Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy - 612 ACL
- Administering Medications - 615.6 ADM
- Don't Die Young - Human Anatomy DVDS - 611-616
- Human Body System Series - 611-612
- The Virtual Center Medical Terminology series - 610-612
- How to Manage Medications - 615.6 HOW
- Mediwise: Quality Use of Medicines - 615.0994 MED
- Medication Challenges in the Elderly Series - 618.9702310994 MED
- Nurses (Australian Broadcasting Commission) - 610.730693 NUR
- Nurse TV (Nurses and Midwives episodes) - 610.730994 NUR
