Find trade journal articles, eBooks, newspaper articles, and more in the databases linked below. These links will take you to high quality search engines that will help you find the resources you need.

No time to search? The library's databases also provide access to hundreds of thousands of eBooks. Take a look at the recommended title(s) linked below. 

Find physical books by searching our online catalog on the library's homepage. You can browse in person and pick up these books by visiting your local library branch. Here are our hours and locations.

You can search our Journals or browse by subject from the library's homepage. For a quick look at what we have available in this subject area, see the title(s) below.

Check out the link(s) below to stream videos on this subject.  You can also visit Films on Demand to browse their entire collection.

Nurse Assistant—Career Q&A: Professional Advice and Insight What is it like to be a nurse assistant? In this Career Q&A video interview, Amanda Mullins talks about her career path, what she does on the job, and the keys to success in nursing. She also offers candid advice on breaking into the profession as well as insight into the industry’s biggest challenges and how the field may change in the next ten years.

Personal Care Aide—Career Q&A: Professional Advice and Insight What is it like to be a personal care aide? In this Career Q&A video interview, Julia Martin talks about her career path, what she does on the job, and the keys to success as a personal care aide. She also offers candid advice on breaking into the profession as well as insight into the industry’s biggest challenges and how the field may change in the next ten years.

Home Health Care Aid—Career Q&A: Professional Advice and Insight What is it like to be a home health care aide? In this Career Q&A video interview, Terri Lockerby talks about her career path, what she does on the job, and the keys to success in home health care services. She also offers candid advice on breaking into the profession as well as insight into the industry’s biggest challenges and how the field may change in the next ten years.

Clinical Nurse Specialist—Career Q&A: Professional Advice and Insight What is it like to be a Clinical Nurse Specialist? In this Career Q&A video interview, Miranda Broyles talks about his career path, what he does on the job, and the keys to success as a clinical nurse specialist. He also offers candid advice on breaking into the profession as well as insight into the industry’s biggest challenges and how the field may change in the next ten years.

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Registered Nurse—Career Q&A: Professional Advice and Insight What is it like to be a Registered Nurse? In this Career Q&A video interview, Leigh Dalton talks about her career path, what she does on the job, and the keys to success in nursing. She also offers candid advice on breaking into the profession as well as insight into the industry’s biggest challenges and how the field may change in the next ten years.

Nurse Anesthetist—Career Q&A: Professional Advice and Insight What is it like to be a nurse anesthetist? In this Career Q&A video interview, Mike Frame talks about his career path, what he does on the job, and the keys to success as a nurse anesthetist. He also offers candid advice on breaking into the profession as well as insight into the industry’s biggest challenges and how the field may change in the next ten years.

We can also direct you to resources outside of the library's databases. See below for a selection of websites related to your field.

North Carolina Health Websites

Medication & Testing Websites

Clinical Practice & Guidelines

Want to learn more about a particular career? These resources will help you learn more about the potential a career field holds. 

When searching for information in the sciences it is important to know that there are two main types of information you will encounter: primary and secondary sources.

Primary sources are resources that report the results of original scientific research, written by those who did the research, that has not been published anywhere else.

If a publication comments on, evaluates, or discusses the original research report, then it is a secondary source, not a primary one.
 

Source: The Evolution of Scientific Information (from Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, vol. 26) & GTCC Library Guide.