Selected Book & Ebook Titles

For more books, try a Subject search for nursing ethics. Search the catalog to find the books and ebooks (with links to full text) below.

Database Searching

Search your key concepts with the keyword ethics or related terms in the nursing databases.
Examples:

  • "pediatric nursing" AND (ethic* OR values OR moral*)
  • ethics AND culture - in Ovid Core Nursing Collection, limit results to "nursing" and "Ovid Full Text Available." (shown below) Under "All Resources" mark "Your journals at Ovid" then click "OK." Key in ethics and culture. Set limits and/or subsets. On your search results page, under "Filter by date," choose "current year."

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Websites

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Provides access to biomedical and genomic information.

Journals

Sample Journal Titles:

  • American Journal of Bioethics (in MEDLINE) - Full text: 2001-present with a 18 month delay due to publisher restrictions. Covers all areas of bioethics.
  • The Journal of Nursing Administration (JONA) - Full text available in Ovid. "Provides knowledge, strategies, and ideas for nurse administration. Contents are aimed at upper level nursing executive."

Using MeSH and CINAHL Headings

In CINAHL or MEDLINE, use the MeSH (Medical Subject Terms) to identify subjects to include in your search.

1) In MEDLINE, click MEDLINE-MeSH. In CINAHL Advanced Search, click CINAHL Headings.
2) Key in your term in the text box below MEDLING-MeSH or CINAHL Headings.
3) Mark Relevancy ranked or Term begins with.
Explore the related terms and broader terms or explode a term.

MEDLINE MeSH

CINAHL Subjects

Find and mark subjects to add them to the search box. Add additional terms for more targeted results.