Nursing: Best bets
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- Films on Demand This link opens in a new windowConsists of 40,000 video titles (77,000 segments) in Humanities & Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Health, and Science.
- Kanopy Streaming movies This link opens in a new windowA streaming video service for educational institutions that provides students and faculty access to a large collection of documentaries and independent films in a wide variety of subjects.
- PrepStep College
Contains skill-building courses, practice tests, exercises and ebooks. Find ACCUPLACER & TEAS study materials here, as well as materials for your certification exam. Sign in with your ATC credentials and then create a personal account.
- Learning Express Library This link opens in a new windowTest prep & skill building. Job & Career Accelerator provides step-by-step job searching assistance, as well as interest/skills matchers if you are exploring careers.
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Major GALILEO Databases for Nursing
- Alt HealthWatch This link opens in a new windowFocuses on multiple perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
- CINAHL Plus with full text This link opens in a new windowOffering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. Video tutorial
- Consumer Health Complete This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content, including full text from many health reference books and encyclopedias and thousands of health reports as well as physician-generated videos and hundreds of medical images and diagrams.
- Health Source Nursing This link opens in a new windowHealth Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides over 500 scholarly full-text journals focusing on nursing, allied health fields, and many medical disciplines. Patient education sheets from the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide are also included.
- Medline (at EbscoHost) This link opens in a new windowProvides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
- Nursing Reference Center Plus This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive reference tool designed to provide relevant clinical resources to nurses and other health care professionals, directly at the point-of-care.
- Proquest Nursing and Allied Health This link opens in a new windowProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source also provides evidence-based nursing information from The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI).
Accessing resources from home
To access library resources at home, you must be authenticated as an Athens Technical College student. So you must log in using your ATC email and password, just like you log into your email or Blackboard.
Prepare for the NCLEX
The library has resources to study and practice for the NCLEX.
- PrepStep CollegeCreate a free account for practice tests. You can find the tests in the Career Preparation section. When you are in the Career section, click "Prepare for an occupation exam," then scroll down to nursing.
If you have already graduated, don't worry! The public library has Learning Express also. You need a library card, and they'll need to give you a password for at-home use. Call or visit for details.
We also have print study guides:
Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN® Examination by Call Number: Athens, Walton RT55 .S28 2020ISBN: 9780323358415Publication Date: 2019-09-23
NCLEX-RN for Dummies with Online Practice Tests by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781119692805Publication Date: 2020-08-26
NCLEX-PN Prep Plus by Call Number: Elbert RT62 .N343 2020ISBN: 9781506255484Publication Date: 2020-03-03
- ATC library NCLEX study guidesA list of what the library has on all campuses, print, and online.
- Free NCLEX PN practice questionsFrom practicalnursing.org
Online resources, mobile apps, and live review courses
*Most of these are available via subscription, and the cost varies depending on the length of time you want to subscribe.
- UWorldChallenging questions and in-depth explanations. You can also generate study sets. This resource is not free.
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