Pre-Appraised Evidence

ACCESSSS is free to search and designed to find the best evidence-based answer to your clinical questions by simultaneously searching the leading evidence-driven medical publications and clinical literature.

Evidence-Based Information: Offers access to a vast collection of resources including full-text books and journals from Elsevier, Mosby's Evidence-Based Nursing Monographs, and clinical practice guidelines.

Clinical Tools: Includes resources like clinical overviews, drug monographs (information on U.S. prescription drugs, herbals, and OTC products), patient education handouts (customizable), nursing scales, clinical calculators, and labs with normal value ranges.

Systematic reviews and control trials.

Point-of-care clinical reference tool with evidence-based summaries.

Dynamic Health is an evidence-based tool designed to help nurses and allied health professionals master skills, obtain fast answers to questions and foster a culture of evidence-based practice and critical thinking leading to improved patient outcomes.

Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Evidence-Based Database allows you to search simultaneously, a wide range of summarized and appraised evidence, to inform your practice.

PEDro has been informing physiotherapy practice for over 25 years. It is a free database of over 65,000 trials, reviews and guidelines evaluating physiotherapy interventions. You can SEARCH to answer your questions, BROWSE the latest research in your area of interest, LEARN more about evidence-based practice, access useful RESOURCES, or find out more ABOUT this invaluable global resource.

Repository is free to use, use the library ILL form to request text.

The Trip Free database is a clinical search engine that combines the results from evidence-based sources of systematic reviews, practice guidelines, MEDLINE's Clinical Queries, medical image databases, e-textbooks, and patient information.

ANN is dedicated to educating both new and seasoned neonatal nurses so they can bring their best nursing skills to the bedside

Neonatal Network: The Journal of Neonatal Nursing acts as a vehicle for the exchange of information by providing up-to-date, relevant articles in the areas of evidence-based clinical practice, research, and education. Follow the link for access to Neonatal Network through the library.

The library does not have a subscription to ANN. 

AACN Standards describe the level of practice or performance expected by the profession of nursing in order to provide excellent and compassionate care.

The library does not subscribe to the guidelines.

AGS guidelines, recommendations, and position statements are always free to AGS members and available to the wider community of geriatrics healthcare professionals.

Many of the standards and guidelines are freely available for everyone via the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

The library does not subscribe to AGS content or the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

American Holistic Nurses' Association publications and standards.

Journal of Holistic Nursing: Official Journal of the American Holistic Nurses' Association is available via the library.

The library does not subscribe to the AHNA membership or Standards of Practice.

American Hospital Association content on health care standards and guidelines for members and the health care field.

The library does not subscribe to AHA content. Some guidelines and standards are freely available.

Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation

Scope of Practice (ANA Site): Scope of practice describes the services that a qualified health professional is deemed competent to perform and permitted to undertake – in keeping with the terms of their professional license.

Guide to the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements: development, interpretation, and application Book available vis the library.

Nursing : Scope and Standards of Practice, 4th Edition Book available via the library.

The library does not subscribe to ANA

ASPMN® Position Statements – Position statements are recommendations for a course of action or statement of beliefs that reflects ASPMN®‘s stance regarding an issue of importance to safe practice, safe care and optimal patient outcomes.

ASPMN® Guidelines - Recommendations to provide information to optimize health interventions (clinical, public health, or policy); clinical practice guidelines include recommendations intended to optimize patient care that are informed by a systematic review of evidence and an assessment of benefits and harms of alternative care options.

The library does not subscribe to the positions & guidelines.

Official Professional Policies for the Continuum of Pharmacy Practice Settings in Integrated Health Systems. Most ASHP guidelines are freely available through their website and the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy site.

American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy with a one year embargo is available via the library.

The library does not subscribe directly to ASHP content.

ASPAN Standards contains updated principles for ethically sound care, safety, and evidence-based values for perianesthesia nursing practice. Each edition of the ASPAN Standards serves perianesthesia nurses as an invaluable resource and provides guidance and support for the expanding scope of perianesthesia nursing practice across the care continuum.

The library does not subscribe to ASPAN

AORN Guidelines for Peri-operative Practice 24th Edition

Practice Guidelines & Position Statements from Association for Radiologic & Imaging Nursing.

Guidelines & Position Statements are freely available. The library does not subscribe to the content

The Association for Vascular Access (AVA), in collaboration with ECRI, INS, and the AACN, developed this work that describes best clinical practices for the insertion and management of peripheral intravenous catheters (PIVCs) that can be used to improve practice and inform policy.  

The Standards of Care for Peripheral Intravenous Catheters: Evidence-Based Expert Consensus is freely available from the Journal of the Association for Vascular Access (JAVA). 

The library does not subscribe to AVA content.

Essential tools and knowledge with Nurse Resources, Research & Evidence-based Practice, Practice Alerts, JOGNN and Nursing for Women’s Health, and the AWHONN Insights podcast. Find practical and clinical resources, the AWHONN Standards, and more. 

The library does not subscribe to AWHONN content.

Clinical practice guideline repository. Many of the guidelines are freely available. The interface is free to search. 

ENA's evidence-based emergency nursing resources to help you deliver safe practice and care.

The library does not subscribe to the practice resources.

Clinical Practice Guidelines: These neonatal nursing resources and tools enhance the practical, hands-on skills and knowledge you need to provide effective patient care. 

Positions Statements: discuss the background and significance of a given topic and offer succinct recommendations and conclusions, along with references from scholarly literature. Each statement is carefully reviewed and updated at established intervals.

The library does not subscribe to guidelines. The Position Statements are freely available. 

The NAON Clinical Practice Guidelines provide consistent, evidence-based scientific recommendations intended to guide nurses in the care of orthopaedic patients with specific orthopaedic conditions.

The library does not subscribe to the guidelines.

The goal of this international collaboration is to develop evidence-based recommendations for the prevention and treatment of pressure injuries that can be used by health professionals throughout the world.

The Prophylactic Dressing Standards Initiative (PDSI) is a collaborative effort led by the NPIAP and EPUAP, involving clinicians, researchers, and manufacturers, to establish international standards for evaluating dressings used in the prevention of pressure injuries.

The Standardized Pressure Injury Prevention Protocol (S-PIPP) is derived from the guidelines and includes new research findings.

The library does not subscribe to NPIAP content

ONS Voice is our dynamic online news, views, and advocacy magazine. 

The Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing is available with a one-year embargo via the library.

The library does not subscribe to ONS content.

SCAI Standards and Guidelines available from the Journal of Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions.

Open Access Journal

The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing offers a variety of guides, competencies, tool-kits, and best practices related to the care of older adults. 

The library does not subscribe to HIGN content. Best Practices are freely available.

Information contained in the WOCN Public Library has been developed and researched by leaders in the field of WOC care and often undergo an extensive content validation process to secure best practice standards. Document library publications are only accessible to members.

The library does not subscribe to WOCN content

AHRQ’s Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) Program develops reports to assist public- and private-sector organizations in their efforts to improve the quality of healthcare in the United States. These reports provide comprehensive, science-based information on common, costly medical conditions and new healthcare technologies and strategies. 

Guidelines Repository. The repository is freely available. Subscriptions may be required for individual guidelines.

The library does not subscribe to Guideline Central

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care of the United Kingdom.

Contains practice guidelines, quality standards and indicators to measure quality in healthcare from the UK.

NIA, one of the 27 Institutes and Centers of NIH, leads a broad scientific effort to understand the nature of aging and to extend the healthy, active years of life. 

This is a U.S. government site.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is a scientifically independent, volunteer panel of national experts in disease prevention and evidence-based medicine. The Task Force works to improve the health of people nationwide by making evidence-based recommendations about clinical preventive services.

Contains evidence-based recommendations.

A WHO guideline is defined broadly as any information product developed by WHO that contains recommendations for clinical practice or public health policy. Recommendations are statements designed to help end-users make informed decisions on whether, when and how to undertake specific actions such as clinical interventions, diagnostic tests or public health measures, with the aim of achieving the best possible individual or collective health outcomes.