ClinicalKey for Nursing
Learn how to get the most out of Upstate's top nursing resource.
Overview
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Quick reference at the point-of-care, including clinical topic summaries, clinical guidelines, patient education handouts, and drug and dosing information. It also offers evidence-based eBooks and journals.
Point of care procedural videos can be found by clicking the "Clinical Skills" box on the ClinicalKey homepage.
ClinicalKey for Nursing includes:
- Full-text books: Elsevier’s top nursing books, including AACN’s Core Curriculum for Critical Care, Sheehy’s Manual of Emergency Care, and Saunders Nursing Drug Handbook
- Full-text journals: Top journals from Elsevier, including Journal of Emergency Nursing, Nurse Leader, AORN Journal and Journal for Nurse Practitioners
- Clinical Overviews: Succinct, easy-to-navigate monographs for quick answers at the point of care
- Customizable Patient Education Handouts
- Clinical calculators
- Mosby’s evidence-based Nursing Monographs: The latest evidence about common clinical problems, including summaries of key studies, tagged by level of evidence
- Drug Monographs: Comprehensive information about U.S. prescription drugs, herbal supplements, nutritional, vitamin and OTC products
- Clinical updates: Best practice clinical articles, focused on specific patient care areas
- Integrated Dorland’s Dictionary
- Nursing Scales: Links to commonly used scales, such as the Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale and NIH Stroke Scale
- Labs for normal value ranges
- Practice guidelines
- MEDLINE Abstracts
- Images that can be used in handouts and presentations