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Resources in the library

Click on a title to see where that item is held. 

You can reserve items held in any of our libraries and have them sent to the library of your choice - read here to find out how.

Click on a title to see where that item is held. 

You can reserve items held in any of our libraries and have them sent to the library of your choice - read here to find out how.

Online resources

To view, you'll be asked for a login - login with your TAFE SA Network account

The Australian Injectable Drugs Handbook, 9th edition is available to access online through the Library Databases page. You will need to login twice, first to the Library Databases page and then at the AIDH page. Remember, when accessing the first time you will need to be on campus to create your account with AIDH.

Read the guide below for access.

MIMS Online logo

The MIMS database provides a wide range of information on Australian medicines: full product information, consumer information, tablet identification and drug interactions.

To access this resource, go to the library's Database page and log in to your library account to obtain the MIMS Online link and login details.

Read the MIMS Monthly Updates, click here


Drug medications

 
A new library guide is available to help you with referencing drug medications. Loaded with plenty of examples for both MIMs printed and online and using websites such as NPS or TGA. 
You can find these on the Referencing Guides webpage

Referencing

Harvard Referencing Legislation

As legislation is always the same, no matter which way you sourced it, you only need to list the title of the legislation (in italics) and the jurisdiction, in your end-text reference. Act names should be italicised in both the in-text and end-text citation. The year is part of the title, so is also italicised. 

Referencing Legislation

Published on 31 Jan 2007

A sample of nursing calculations from mathstutor.biz

Published on 3 Dec 2008

The nursing program at Westmoreland County Community College displays proper medication administration.

Published 4 November 2013

It is recommended that students and clinicians never recap a regular hypodermic needle - but in the rare instance when one needs to do that, the one hand scoop technique should be used.

Published 5 October 2016 by Gedsa Worldwide

Rethink Addiction Australia, Published 20 Oct 2020

Summary: Addiction is a common yet misunderstood health condition with damaging stigma that perpetuates the isolation and shame felt by individuals and families. But change is possible. That’s why we have started Rethink Addiction, to educate and call for an improved national response to treatment. Find out more about our supporters and how you can help Rethink Addiction

Published 16 January 2013 by Live Active Clinic

Also check the Clinical Key database for many nursing related e-books published by Elsevier.

These databases contain articles that may be relevant to your subject.  You can access all of them via our Databases page.

  • Australian Injectable Drugs Handbook

The AIDH is a collaborative venture between pharmacists and nurses. It is a comprehensive reference of 426 injectable medicines, including 55 antineoplastic agents

  • ANZRC - Australia and New Zealand Reference Centre

​Includes full-text access to searchable magazines and journals including many Australian publications, including: Australian Nursing & Midwifery Journal, Journal of the Australian Traditional Medicine Society, Australian Journal of Herbal Medicine, Nursing Praxis in New Zealand, Journal of the Australasian Rehabilitation Nurses' Association, Australasian Journal on Ageing and Lamp.

  • Gale OneFile: Nursing and Allied Health

Includes full-text titles to support specialized care, treatment, and patient management. Helps nursing professionals working in the field as well as students studying a nursing-focused curriculum.

  • Gale Health and Wellness

Offers access to thousands of full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and more. Provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices, and more.

  • JBI Connect

​Evidence-based information for nursing and aged care workers, including a range of Best Practice sheets.

  • MIMS Online

​Database of information on Australian medicines.

  • PubMed

​Comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.