Nursing

Primo is our library discovery system and can be used to search our book collection. The library offers books in print and also online! To access e-books, you'll need to use your UMass Dartmouth login.

If you don't find the book you need in Primo, go to the Interlibrary Loan tab to learn about other ways to obtain it!

Use the search box below to run a quick search for books, or use the advanced search page to limit your material type to books prior to searching. 

Our library uses the Library of Congress Classification System.  If you are browsing our stacks, call numbers beginning with R are for medicine and specifically those under RT are nursing and these are located on our fifth floor.  The Library of Congress has a full outline of this classification to better understand what's under each call number within the R's.  We also have a good collection of e-books available through Primo.  

Here are just a few titles in our collection.  

You can access more than 30 books from the American Nurses Association online!

This list provides all the titles and links to the full-text of each e-book.

Some sample titles include:

• Nursing: Scope & Standards of Practice
• Teaching IOM: Implications of the Institute of Medicine Reports for Nursing Education
• Faith Community Nursing: Developing a Quality Practice
• Guide to the Code of Ethics for Nurses: Interpretation & Application

Here's a quick guide on how to read call numbers in our library (and most other academic libraries).

The first line is read in alphabetical order.

• ex. This would be before the PQ's but after the PM's.

Read the second line in numerical order.

• ex. This would be after PN 6746 and before PN 6747.1 or PN 6748.

The third line is tricky. Read the letter in alphabetical order then the number as a decimal.

• ex. PN 6747 .S245 would come before PN 6747 .S5, because .5 in decimal is really .500!

Sometimes the fourth line will look like this and you read it exactly like the other line.

• ex. PN 6747 .S245 P4713 would come before PN 6747 .S245 P8, because .8 in decimal is really .800!

When you see a line near the bottom that looks like a year, it is a year! This goes in numerical order.

• ex. If there was a book just like this except the date was 2003, it would go before the 2007 edition.

You could think of a call number like a detailed address in reverse: planet, country, state, city, street, street number. Each line helps you narrow down the book's exact location!

UMass Dartmouth dissertations and thesis are online in our digital archives.  If you need one from 2016 or earlier, search the title or author in Primo.

Nursing Dissertations (online)