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Subject Guides for Websites

A guide to websites that provide authoritative information about 21 subject categories including government & law, history, English, science, facts & statistics, writing & grammar, etc.

CERTIFICATION (Health & Nursing)

American Nurses Credentialing Center
• https://www.nursingworld.org/ancc/
• American Nurses Association
• .org
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ANCC certifies and recognizes individual nurses in specialty practice areas such as School NP, Family NP, Gerontological NP, Pediatric CNS, Gerontological CNS, Forensic Nursing, Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing, Nursing Care Management, Faith Community Nursing, and so forth.
Boards of Nursing
• https://www.ncsbn.org/contact-bon.htm
• ncsbn.org
• .org
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Boards of Nursing are state governmental agencies whose sole purpose is to protect the public's health and welfare by overseeing and ensuring the safe practice of nursing through regulations. This listing includes all the states and U.S. territories with their addresses, phone and fax numbers.
Nursing Certificate Directory
• http://www.testprepreview.com/nursing_certifications.htm
• TestPrepReview.com, Enoch Morrison
• .com
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Provides information about the path to certification for over 60 specialized nursing certificates, such as: Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner, Medical Surgical Nurse, Pain Management Nurse, Critical Care RN, etc. Also provides information about the exams required and access to materials to study and prepare for those exams.

Last update: 8/11/2021

Google Scholar

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a variation of Google. It is designed specifically for scholarly literature searches.

Advantages

It’s free to use.
It has a simple, familiar interface that works much like regular Google.
It finds scholarly books, articles, and conference papers from a wide range of disciplines.

Disadvantages

Coverage is not comprehensive. It is a good first place to start researching a paper, but not comprehensive enough to be the only place you look.
Criteria used for selecting “scholarly” materials is not given. Search results can be a mixture of articles and books as well as unpublished manuscripts, course syllabi, and high school term papers, so you must critically evaluate what you find.
Results are not always full-text or free like regular Google. Often the link for an article will take you to the publishers website where the full article is available only if you buy it.