Providence Library Services

• Certification review and Core Curriculum ebooks
• Scope and Standards of Practice by specialty
• AACN Core Curriculum for Pediatric High Acuity, Progressive and Critical Care Nursing - 3rd Ed., 2019
• AACN Procedure Manual for Progressive and Critical Care - NEW EDITION, 2024
• Alexander's Care of the Patient in Surgery
• ANA Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, 4th ed.
• AORN eGuidelines+ - alternate access
• ASPAN: 2025-26 Perianesthesia Nursing Standards, Practice Recommendations and Interpretive Statements
• AWHONN's Perinatal Nursing, 5th Ed., 2021
• Code of Ethics for Nurses, 2025
• Davis' Drug Guide for Nurses
• The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a path to achieve health equity - free download, registration required
• Infusion Therapy Standards of Practice NEW 9th ed. 2024
• Sheehy's Manual of Emergency Care, 8th ed. 2024
• Wong's Clinical Manual of Pediatric Nursing, 9th ed. 2024
• More nursing eBooks by specialty
• More nursing eBooks via R2
• More nursing eBooks via StatRef

• AWHONN's High Risk & Critical Care Obstetrics, 5th ed.
• AWHONN's Neonatal Skin Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline, 4th ed., 2018
• AWHONN’s Perinatal Nursing, 5th ed., 2021
• AWHONN's Perioperative Care of the Pregnant Woman, 2nd ed. 2019
• AWHONN's Standards for Professional Nursing Practice in the Care of Women, Newborns & People Across the Lifespan, 9th ed.
• Breastfeeding, 9th ed. 2022
• Briggs Drugs in Pregnancy & Lactation, 12 ed. 
• Fetal and Neonatal Physiology
• Guidelines for Perinatal Care, 8th ed.
• Hale's Medications & Mothers' Milk, 2025-26
• Klaus and Fanaroff's Care of the High-Risk Neonate,7th ed.
• Neonatal Nursing: Scope & Standards of Practice
• NRP: Textbook of Neonatal Resuscitation, 9th ed. 
• NRP, Spanish edition - Libro de texto para la Reanimación Neonatal, 8th edición
• Transformative Nursing in the NICU: Trauma-Informed, Age-Appropriate Care, 2nd ed.
• More Perinatal/Neonatal Nursing Books
• Journals

• Advances in Nutrition
• Clinical Nutrition
• Human Nutrition & Metabolism
• Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
• Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
• Journal of Human Nutrition & Dietetics
• Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition
• Journal of Renal Nutrition
• JPEN, Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
• Nutrition in Clinical Practice
• Topics in Clinical Nutrition

• BMC Palliative Care (2002 - present)
• Current Opinion in Supportive & Palliative Care (2007 - present)
• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care (2021 - present)
• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing (2002 - present)
• Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (2007 - present)
• Palliative Care and Social Practice (2019 - present)
• Palliative Medicine Reports (2020 - present) 

Providence libraries have print collections of palliative care texts and classic titles by Dr. Ira Byock, Dr. Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross, and Dr. Sherwin Nuland. For more information email librarian@providence.org.

• Providence Institute for Human Caring - Includes details on upcoming events and information and resources for patients and family members
• Providence Institute for Human Caring (internal page) - Includes internal presentations, communications, Advance Directive resources and ACP Decisions video resources.
• Providence Institute for Human Caring Video Library - Includes training and support videos on palliative care related topics.
• Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) Course Curriculum - Includes course curricula and CME/CEU across a broad range of palliative care related topics. Provides the essential tools, training, technical assistance, and metrics to build and sustain palliative care in all health care setting.

Other organizations

• American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
• Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association
• Hospice Foundation of America
• National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
• National Palliative Care Research Center

Abstract and manuscript writing help

• Copilot Chat is included in Providence caregivers' Microsoft 365 subscription; use for editing, proofreading or summarizing text.
• Major publishers' guidelines on AI use in writing for publication

Providence resources

• DIY Research Studio
• Human Research Protection Program
• eIRB
• Clinical Inquiry Review

General

• Elements of Style - a classic by William Strunk in full text; the American English writing style guide.
• How to Write, Publish, and Present in the Health Sciences: A Guide for Clinicians and Laboratory Researchers (2010)
• How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence-based Healthcare - 7th Ed. (2025)
• Nursing Research & EBP eBook collection

Biomedical

• Authorship guidelines - Who is an author?
• CRediT - Contributor Roles Taxonomy
• ORCID - register for a free, unique, persistent identifier distinguishing you from other researchers. Add it to your grant applications and manuscript submissions.
• Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly work in Medical Journals.
• Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication.
• Keep rights to your published work using the SPARC Author Addendum
• Search across journals' open access policies

Reporting research

• The EQUATOR network - Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research - an international repository of research reporting guidelines, including
  • CARE for case reports. Additional case reports resources:
    • Writing a Case Report
    • CARE Checklist of information to include when writing a case report
  • PRISMA for systematic reviews
  • SQUIRE for quality improvement studies
• Additional guidance on systematic & scoping reviews 

What Are Citation Managers

Citation managers, also called reference managers, are tools that facilitate storing references. With a citation manager you can:

• organize, share, and annotate references
• automatically upload references and pdfs from databases and the web or create references manually
• seamlessly insert citations and create bibliographies in documents
• select citation style, such as APA, AMA, NLM, Chicago, etc.
• there are a few free citation managers, we support Zotero

Guide to getting the most out of Zotero

• create an account for Zotero online
• download the Zotero desktop app
  • using a Providence device? Download Zotero from the Software Center

• install Zotero Connector for web browsers
• Zotero mobile apps
• Zotero tutorials
• check for the next scheduled Zotero class taught by Providence librarians

 Subscription Citation Manager

• EndNote desktop - available via ServiceNow, small fee to cost center and Business Justification required.
• EndNote tutorials

Citation and Writing Style Guides

American Medical Association

• AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors 
• Advancing Health Equity: Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts

National Center for Biotechnology Information

• The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers

APA, AMA, Chicago, MLA

• Purdue OWL - a free resource for APA, AMA, MLA and Chicago Manual of Style
• APA tutorials
• APA Style site - select Style and Grammar Guidelines from the top menu for References, In-Text Citations, Bias-Free Language, Paper Formats, etc.
• APA Style Citing Clinical Practice References - includes information on citing UpToDate, Cochrane Reviews, drug info and more

• Guidance on using images appropriately in your presentations and manuscripts
• Information on copyright and copyrighted materials