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New eBooks for 2025-2026

Recommended Databases for Evidence Based Practice

The following databases contain articles on evidence based health management.

CINAHL Ultimate
A research tool for nursing and allied health professionals and students. Full text for more than 1200 journals and indexing for another 5000 journals.
Healthcare Administration Database [ProQuest ]
Healthcare management content provides the most reliable and relevant information on a wide range of topics, including: Hospitals, Insurance, Law, Statistics, Business management, Personnel management, Ethics, Health economics, Public health administration. Coverage for around 800 key journals with over 4,500 Doctoral Dissertations and Theses.

PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 29 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

Health, Medicine, & Nursing Databases [ProQuest]
Searches the following ProQuest databases simultaneously: Consumer Health; Health & Medical Collection; Healthcare Administration; Nursing & Allied Health Premium; Public Health. Covers medical science, nursing, allied health, public health and pharmacology with full text scholarly journals, magazines, trade journals,books, reports, working papers, conference & proceedings, news and more.

Business / Informatics Databases Nursing & Healthcare Leadership

Business Collection [ProQuest]
Searches 10 ProQuest business databases simultaneously. Including ABI/Inform; Accounting, Tax, & Banking; Asian & European Business; Business Market Research; Canadian Business & Current Affairs; Career & Technical Education; EconLit; India Database; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences; Research Library: Business.
CINAHL Ultimate
A research tool for nursing and allied health professionals and students. Full text for more than 1200 journals and indexing for another 5000 journals.
Healthcare Administration Database [ProQuest ]
Healthcare management content provides the most reliable and relevant information on a wide range of topics, including: Hospitals, Insurance, Law, Statistics, Business management, Personnel management, Ethics, Health economics, Public health administration. Coverage for around 800 key journals with over 4,500 Doctoral Dissertations and Theses.

PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 29 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

NHL & CNL Program eBooks & Article links

DNP eBooks
NUR 7000, 7200, 7500, etc. ebooks can be found on the DNP page. See the appropriate course tab.

Statistics for Nursing: a Practical Approach by Elizabeth Heavey
Publication Date: 2022; 4th ed.

* Single user ebook
Copy #2
Statistics for Nursing: a Practical Approach by Elizabeth Heavey
Publication Date: 2022; 4th ed.

*Single user ebook.
Copy #1

Gapenski's Healthcare Finance: An Introduction to Accounting and Financial Management by Kristin L. Reiter; Paula H. Song
Publication Date: 2020; 7th ed

Unlimited user ebook

Introduction to Health Research Methods: A Practical Guide by Kathryn H. Jacobsen
Publication Date: 2020; 3rd ed.

** Single user ebook

The Improvement Guide: A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance by Gerald J. Langley; Ronald D. Moen; Kevin M. Nolan; Thomas W. Nolan; Clifford L. Norman; Lloyd P. Provost
Publication Date: 2009

**Single user ebook
Nursing Informatics for the Advanced Practice Nurse: Patient Safety, Quality, Outcomes, and Interprofessionalism by Susan McBride; Mari Tietze
Publication Date: 2022; 3rd ed

*Single user ebook

Human Resource Management in Health Care: Principles and Practice by Charles R. McConnell
Publication Date: 2021; 3rd ed

**3-user ebook

Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) by Howard K. Butcher; Gloria M. Bulechek; Joanne M. McCloskey Dochterman; Cheryl M. Wagner
Publication Date: 2018; 7th ed

** Single user ebook.
Nursing Outcomes: The State of the Science by Diane M. Doran
Publication Date: 2011; 2nd ed.

** Single user ebook.
Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC): Measurement of Health Outcomes by Sue Moorhead; Marion Johnson; Meridean L. Maas; Elizabeth Swanson
Publication Date: 2018; 6th ed.

**Single user ebook.

Influencer: the New Science of Leading Change by Al Switzler; Joseph Grenny; Kerry Patterson; David Maxfield; Ron McMillan
Publication Date: 2013; 2nd ed

* 3-user ebook
Leadership for Evidence-Based Innovation in Nursing and Health Professions by Daniel Weberg; Tim Porter-O'Grady; Sandra Davidson; Kathy Malloch
Publication Date: 2019; 2nd ed

**Single user ebook

Economics and Financial Management for Nurses and Nurse Leaders by Susan J. Penner
Publication Date: 2017; 3rd ed.

** Unlimited user ebook
Penner's Economics and Financial Management for Nurses and Nurse Leaders by Mary Lynne Knighten (Editor); KT Waxman (Editor)
Publication Date: 2023; 4th ed.

*Single user ebook

Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking by Lynn S. Bickley; Peter G. Szilagyi; Richard M. Hoffman; Rainier P. Soriano
Publication Date: 2021; 13th ed.

* 3-user ebook

Population Health: Creating a Culture of Wellness by David B. Nash; Raymond J. Fabius; Alexis Skoufalos; Richard L. O
Publication Date: 2021; 3rd ed.

**3-user ebook.
Population Health: Creating a Culture of Wellness by David B. Nash; Raymond J. Fabius; Alexis Skoufalos; Richard L. O
Publication Date: 2021; 3rd ed.

** Single user ebook

Essential Knowledge for CNL and APRN Nurse Leaders by Cynthia R. King (Editor); Sally Gerard (Editor); Carla Gene Rapp (Editor)
Publication Date: 2018; 1 st ed.

** Single user ebook.
Quality by Design: A Clinical Microsystems Approach by Paul B. Batalden (Editor); Marjorie M. Godfrey (Editor); Eugene C. Nelson; Donald M. Berwick (Foreword by)
Publication Date: 2007

**Single user book

Nursing Administration: Scope and Standards of Practice by American Nurses Association
Publication Date: 2016; 2nd ed.

**Single user ebook
Nurse Executive: Review and Resource Manual by Al Rundio; Virginia Wilson; Faye Meloy
Publication Date: 2016; 3rd ed.

**Single user ebook

Nursing Administration: Scope and Standards of Practice by American Nurses Association
Publication Date: 2016; 2nd ed.

**Single user ebook
Nurse Executive: Review and Resource Manual by Al Rundio; Virginia Wilson; Faye Meloy
Publication Date: 2016; 3rd ed.

**Single user ebook

Clinical Nurse Leaders Beyond the Microsystem by James L. Harris; Linda A. Roussel; Patricia L. Thomas
Publication Date: 2021; 4th ed.

**Single user ebook
Clinical Nurse Leader Certification Review, by Cynthia R. King (Editor); Sally Gerard (Editor); Carla Gene Rapp (Editor)
Publication Date: 2020; 3rd ed.

**Single user ebook.
Essential Knowledge for CNL and APRN Nurse Leaders by Cynthia R. King (Editor); Sally Gerard (Editor); Carla Gene Rapp (Editor)
Publication Date: 2018; 1 st ed.

** Single user ebook.
Initiating and Sustaining the Clinical Nurse Leader Role by James L. Harris; Linda A. Roussel; Tricia Thomas
Publication Date: 2016; 3rd ed

** Single user book.

NHL Textbook eBooks

Economics and Financial Management for Nurses and Nurse Leaders by Susan J. Penner
Publication Date: 2017; 3rd ed.

** Unlimited user ebook
Penner's Economics and Financial Management for Nurses and Nurse Leaders by Mary Lynne Knighten (Editor); KT Waxman (Editor)
Publication Date: 2023; 4th ed.

*Single user ebook
Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) by Howard K. Butcher; Gloria M. Bulechek; Joanne M. McCloskey Dochterman; Cheryl M. Wagner
Publication Date: 2018; 7th ed

** Single user ebook.
Nursing Outcomes: The State of the Science by Diane M. Doran
Publication Date: 2011; 2nd ed.

** Single user ebook.
Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC): Measurement of Health Outcomes by Sue Moorhead; Marion Johnson; Meridean L. Maas; Elizabeth Swanson
Publication Date: 2018; 6th ed.

**Single user ebook.
Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice by American Nurses Association
Publication Date: 2021; 4th ed

** Single user ebook
Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice by American Nurses Association
Publication Date: 2021; 4th ed.

*3-user ebook
Quality by Design: A Clinical Microsystems Approach by Paul B. Batalden (Editor); Marjorie M. Godfrey (Editor); Eugene C. Nelson; Donald M. Berwick (Foreword by)
Publication Date: 2007

**Single user book

Recommended Readings for CNL Certification Exam: eBooks, Articles, and Web Resources

eBook Links

Clinical Nurse Leaders Beyond the Microsystem by James L. Harris; Linda A. Roussel; Patricia L. Thomas
Publication Date: 2021; 4th ed.

**Single user ebook
Clinical Nurse Leader Certification Review by Cynthia R. King (Editor); Sally Gerard (Editor)
Publication Date: 2016; 2nd ed.

** Single user book.
Clinical Nurse Leader Certification Review, by Cynthia R. King (Editor); Sally Gerard (Editor); Carla Gene Rapp (Editor)
Publication Date: 2020; 3rd ed.

**Single user ebook.
Essential Knowledge for CNL and APRN Nurse Leaders by Cynthia R. King (Editor); Sally Gerard (Editor); Carla Gene Rapp (Editor)
Publication Date: 2018; 1 st ed.

** Single user ebook.
Evidence-Based Practice for Nurses: Appraisal and Application of Research by Nola A. Schmidt; Janet M. Brown
Publication Date: 2021; 5th ed.

*Single user ebook
Initiating and Sustaining the Clinical Nurse Leader Role by James L. Harris; Linda A. Roussel; Tricia Thomas
Publication Date: 2016; 3rd ed

** Single user book.
Leadership in Nursing Practice: Changing the Landscape of Health Care by Daniel Weberg; Kara Mangold; Tim Porter-O'Grady; Kathy Malloch
Publication Date: 2019; 3rd ed.

** Single user ebook.
Lilienfeld's Foundations of Epidemiology by Dona Schneider; David E. Lilienfeld
Publication Date: 2015; 4th ed.

** Single user book.
Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge by Dee McGonigle; Kathleen Mastrian
Publication Date: 2021; 5th ed

**Single user ebook
Organizational Behavior, Theory, and Design in Health Care by Nancy Borkowski
Publication Date: 2016; 2nd ed.

** Single user book.
Policy and Politics in Nursing and Health Care by Diana J. Mason; Judith K. Leavitt; Mary W. Chaffee; Deborah B. Gardner; Freida Hopkins Outlaw; Eileen T. O'Grady
Publication Date: 2016; 7th ed.

** Single user ebook.
Quality by Design: A Clinical Microsystems Approach by Paul B. Batalden (Editor); Marjorie M. Godfrey (Editor); Eugene C. Nelson; Donald M. Berwick (Foreword by)
Publication Date: 2007

**Single user book

Articles ------

Nursing Leadership: Scope and Standards of Practice by American Nurses Association; American Organization of Nurse Leaders
Publication Date: 2024; 3rd ed.

*Single user ebook

Pain management in older adults. In: Evidence-based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice.

Web Resources

The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on theFuture of Nursing, at the Institute of Medicine Committee
ISBN: 9780309158237

Publication Date: 2011

Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses by Institute of Medicine of the National Academies Staff
Publication Date: 2004

NCBI Bookshelf ebook
Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses by Agency for Healthcare and Research and Quality
Publication Date: 2008

NCBI Bookshelf ebook

Competencies and Curricular Expectations for Clinical Nurse LeaderSM Education and Practice.
American Association of Colleges of Nursing - 2013
Transforming Care at the Bedside How-to Guide: Developing Front-Line Nursing Managers to Lead Innovation and Improvement
Must create an account to access content; creating an IHI account is free.

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Lee B, Peck C, Rutherford P, Shannon D. Transforming Care at the Bedside How-to Guide: Developing Front-Line Nursing Managers to Lead Innovation and Improvement. Cambridge, MA: Institute for Healthcare Improvement; 2008. Available at www.IHI.org.

Recommended Readings for Nurse Executive Certification Exam

eBook Links

Code of Ethics for Nurses by American Nurses Association
Publication Date: 2025

*2-user ebook.
Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness: by Tener Goodwin Veenema
Publication Date: 2018; 4th ed.

*Single user ebook
Guide to the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements by Marsha Fowler
Publication Date: 2015; 2nd ed

**Single user ebook
Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals by George D. Pozgar
Publication Date: 2016; 4th ed.

*Single user ebook
Management and Leadership for Nurse Administrators by Linda A. Roussel; James L. Harris; Tricia Thomas
Publication Date: 2020; 8th ed.

*Single user ebook
The New Leadership Challenge: Creating the Future of Nursing by Sheila C. Grossman; Theresa M. Valiga
Publication Date: 2017; 5th ed.

*Single user ebook
Nursing Administration: Scope and Standards of Practice by American Nurses Association
Publication Date: 2016; 2nd ed.

**Single user ebook
Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice by American Nurses Association
Publication Date: 2021; 4th ed

** Single user ebook
Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice by American Nurses Association
Publication Date: 2021; 4th ed.

*3-user ebook
Quantum Leadership: Creating Sustainable Value in Health Care by Nancy M. Albert; Sharon Pappas
Publication Date: 2024; 7th ed.

*Single user ebook

Print Books available through the library:

Huber, D.L. (2018). Leadership and Nursing Care Management (6th ed.). Elsevier. RT 89 .H83 2018

Marquis, B.L., & Huston, C.J. (2017). Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing (9th ed.). Wolters Kluwer. RT 89 .M387 2017

Melnyk, B.M., & Fineout-Overholt, E.(2019). Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare: A Guide to Best Practice (4th ed.). Wolters Kluwer. RT 42 .M44 2019

Outcome Assessment Resources

AHRQ Quality Indicators
Includes four modules: Prevention QIs, Inpatient QIs, Patient Safety Indicators, and Pediatric QI's.

Health Outcomes Core Library Recommendations, 2011
Offers a bibliography of recommended core health outcomes books.

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