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Nursing Specialty Guide

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Clinical Skills

Elsevier Clinical Skills is a comprehensive online solution accessible on any mobile device that enables organizations to standardize education and manage competency among their nurses, therapists, and other health professionals.

By combining 2,000+ evidence-based skills and procedures with competency management functionality, Clinical Skills helps ensure that knowledge and skills are current, and reflective of best practices and the latest clinical guidelines anywhere, anytime.

Clinical Skills is managed and administered by the nursing community. The links below will take users to that facility's Clinical Skills login page. U.S. Air Force users, please select United States Air Force. U.S. Air Force members who need an account should contact AFMRA LMS team. U.S. Army and U.S. Navy members who need an account should contact the facility nursing administration or supervisor.

121st Field Hospital

Augusta Military Medical Center

Bassett Army Community Hospital

BG Crawford F. Sams US Army Health Clinic

Blanchfield Army Community Hospital

Brooke Army Medical Center

Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital

Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center

Defense Health Agency

Eisenhower Army Medical Center

Evans Army Community Hospital

Fox Army Health Clinic

General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital

Guthrie Ambulatory Care Center

Ireland Army Health Clinic

Irwin Army Community Hospital

Keller Army Community Hospital

Kenner Army Health Clinic

Kimbrough Ambulatory Care Center

Landstuhl Regional Medical Center

Lyster Army Health Clinic

Madigan Army Medical Center

Martin Army Community Hospital

McDonald Army Health Clinic

Moncrief Army Health Clinic

Munson Army Health Clinic

Raymond W. Bliss Army Health Center

Reynolds Army Health Clinic

Tripler Army Medical Center

United States Air Force

United States Army Central Command

United States Army Institute of Surgical Research

United States Army Medical Department Center & School

United States Navy

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Weed Army Community Hospital

William Beaumont Army Medical Center

Winn Army Community Hospital

Womack Army Medical Center

Continuing Education

AudioDigest
All Audio Digest programs can be used for credit or contact hours by physicians, PAs, and nurses. Certain Audio Digest programs can be used for credit or contact hours by certified registered nurse anesthetists, psychologists, optometrists, ophthalmic technicians, and registered dietitians or dietetic technician.

CDC Training and Continuing Education Online (TCEO)
TCEO provides the public health and health care workforce access to CDC educational activities that offer free CE credits, contact hours, or units. Use TCEO to search for CE opportunities, complete course evaluations and posttests, obtain your CE certificates, and manage your CDC CE transcript. CDC is accredited with Distinction as a provider of Continuing Nursing Education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's (ANCC) Commission on Accreditation. Use the search function in TCOE to search for course by accreditation type.

CINAHL Complete
CINAHL CE modules are interactive educational modules that allow nurses, social work, and allied health professionals to satisfy CE requirements online. They contain the latest topics on patient care and drug administration. Each CE module consists of course material, an interactive review, and a competency test with a certificate of completion. CEU is available to nurses and allied health professionals.

ClinicalKey for Nursing
Earn continuing nursing education contact hours accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation by reading Clinical Updates in ClinicalKey for Nursing.

Medscape
Medscape, LLC offers online CE for selected journal articles, allowing clinicians the opportunity to earn Medscape CE credit. Medscape, LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, and the American Nurses Credentialing Center, to provide continuing education for the health care team. Register for free or login without a password to get unlimited access to all continuing education activities.

UpToDate
Time spent reading UpToDate topics can be used to fulfill requirements for the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and other nursing certification organizations. Refer to Nursing Continuing Education Requirement and Use of UpToDate State Licensing Board Regulations for further information about acceptance of UpToDate CE.

Drug Information

AHFS Patient Medication Information

Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses, 19th ed.

Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed)
Peer-reviewed and fully referenced database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed, including data on maternal and infant levels of drugs, possible effects on breastfed infants and on lactation, and alternate drugs to consider.

NeoFax
Evidence-based clinical decision support tool with the NeoFax drug database.

Pediatric Injectable Drugs (The Teddy Bear Book), 11th ed. 

UpToDate Lexidrug
Evidence-based referential drug database for prescribing, fulfilling, and administering medications.

Evidence-Based Practice Resources

CINAHL Complete
Database for nursing and allied health professionals, offering access to over 600 full-text journals, evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons, and more.

ClinicalKey for Nursing
Database of nursing journals, books, drug monographs, evidence-based nursing monographs, clinical topic summaries, videos, and images from the publisher Elsevier.

The Cochrane Library (via Ovid)
Collection of databases containing high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making comprised of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, ACP Journal Club, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Cochrane Clinical Answers, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Methodology Register, Health Technology Assessment, & NHS Economic Evaluation Database

Essential Evidence Plus
Evidence-based clinical decision support system featuring over 13,000 topics, guidelines, abstracts, tools, images, and summaries covering the most common conditions, diseases, and procedures clinicians come in contact with every day.

Evidence-Based Practice for Nursing and Healthcare Quality Improvement
Online guide to planning, implementation, and evaluation of EBP and QI projects to improve quality of care and health outcomes.

Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing, 4th ed.
Online book that instructs the reader on how to find, critically read, and interpret a range of research studies and provides optimal approaches towards helping patients reach decisions that are informed by the best-available evidence.

Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database
Evidence-based nursing and allied health database with over 3,000 records of evidence-based recommended practices, evidence summaries, best practice information sheets, systematic reviews, and systematic review protocols.

Ovid MEDLINE
Ovid’s subscription interface to access MEDLINE, the premier literature database containing over 27 million references from 5,200 biomedical journals, dating from 1966 to present.

PubMed
National Library of Medicine’s free interface to access MEDLINE, the premier literature database containing over 27 million references from 5,200 biomedical journals, dating from 1966 to present.

Trip Medical Database
Clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.

Search for Articles

CINAHL Complete
Database for nursing and allied health professionals, offering access to over 600 full-text journals, evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons, and more.

ClinicalKey for Nursing
Database of nursing journals, books, drug monographs, evidence-based nursing monographs, clinical topic summaries, videos, and images from the publisher Elsevier.

Ovid Emcare
Database with over 5 million citations and abstracts from 3,500 nursing and allied health journals, including coverage of over 2,800 journals not available on other leading nursing databases.

Ovid MEDLINE
Ovid’s subscription interface to access MEDLINE, the premier literature database containing over 27 million references from 5,200 biomedical journals, dating from 1966 to present.

PubMed
National Library of Medicine’s free interface to access MEDLINE, the premier literature database containing over 27 million references from 5,200 biomedical journals, dating from 1966 to present.

Guidelines

AORN eGuidelines+
eGuidelines provides a wealth of resources, such as practice guidelines, evidence-based recommendations, clinical checklists, templates, competency verification tools, and audit tools to support perioperative patient safety and quality outcomes.

Last Updated: July 09, 2024
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