Faculty Resources
Educational Resources
- AccessMedicine This link opens in a new window
Medical textbooks, quick reference, multimedia, drug therapy cases, diagnostics, and self-assessment tools. NOTE:You must register for a free Access account to use the self-assessment tools and case studies.
- AccessPharmacy This link opens in a new window
Pharmacy textbooks, quick reference, multimedia, drug therapy cases, and self-assessment tools. NOTE:You must register for a free Access account to use the self-assessment tools and case studies.
- APA PsycBooks on PsycNetThis collection contains high-quality publications in psychology and related fields.
- Ebooks for the ClassroomUSF Libraries have assembled a collection of ebooks that can be adopted for courses at no cost to students and with unlimited access. These titles are either owned or can be purchased by the USF Libraries for use in a course. New ebooks are added as they become available.
- MedOne Education This link opens in a new window
MedOne Education (formerly Thieme Electronic Book Library) is Thieme’s medical learning platform that features over 110 e-textbooks covering the entire medical school curriculum, with textbooks in the health and life sciences, Thieme’s color atlases of anatomy, and review books (including USMLE test prep.) The searchable platform includes 761 videos, over 57,000 images, and a new Q&A section with over 1,000 questions.
- Taylor and Francis Nursing and Allied Health e-book collectionTaylor & Francis eBooks is a single destination platform with eBooks in science, technology, engineering, medical, humanities and social science.
- Open Textbook Library- NursingOpen textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost.
Now offering 1559 open textbooks, the Open Textbook Library is supported by the Open Education Network. - Open RN TextbooksOER nursing textbooks are created by faculty based on the WTCS State Nursing curriculum and the current NCLEX-RN Test Plan. Textbooks undergo national peer review by faculty, deans, industry members, and nursing students to ensure the content is accurate and relevant, written in clear language for pre-licensure nursing students, and based on current, evidence-based practices. All Open RN materials have CC-BY 4.0 Creative Commons licensing.
- Jove Core NursingJoVE Core Nursing offers concise animated lessons on nursing practices, covering health systems, nursing organizations, and health concepts. It includes practical communication, infection prevention, and nursing fundamentals, providing students with a clear understanding of nursing principles.
- Jove Clinical Nursing SkillsThis collection demonstrates medication preparation and administration, with videos highlighting important safety checks, considerations, dosage calculations, and common mistakes associated with improper medication administration.
- Jove Core Med-Surg NursingJoVE Core Medical-Surgical Nursing, Unit I, Set 1 includes 58 animated lessons and 18 Scientists-in-Action videos spanning six chapters, covering essential topics in respiratory health. From understanding respiratory anatomy to advanced diagnostic techniques, this collection is designed to bridge theoretical knowledge with practical clinical applications.
- Jove Core Pharmacokinetics and PharmacodynamicsThe initial release comprises 51 animated videos, which take viewers through topics like drug absorption, pharmacokinetic modeling, and biostatistics. These lessons provide a thorough understanding of how drugs interact within the human body, from the cellular level to systemic effects. We also explore the influence of biostatistical analysis on pharmacokinetics, covering critical topics such as data variability, hypothesis testing, and statistical inference.
- Jove Clinical ListCore Nursing, Anatomy & Physiology, Clinical Skills, and Pharmacology
- Jove EducationVideo textbooks which explain concepts taught in undergraduate courses through high-impact animations and real-life experiments.
Biology, Chemistry, Social Psychology, Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry, Statistics, Physics, Cell Biology, Nursing, Anatomy and Physiology,
Mechanical Engineering, Pharmacology
- Nursing and Mental Health in Video: A Symptom Media Collection This link opens in a new window
Nursing and Mental Health in Video: A Symptom Media Collection features over 240 videos of the most common mental health disorders nurses may encounter. Faculty can integrate these 2-22 minute long videos within lectures, discussion groups, tests, and distance learning programs. Nursing and Mental Health in Video supports the existing curriculum at all levels – undergraduate, graduate, and professional. USF has perpetual access to this collection.
- JoVE Research
JoVE is the world-leading producer and provider of science videos with the mission to improve scientific research and education. Millions of scientists, educators and students at thousands of universities, colleges, hospitals and biopharmaceutical companies worldwide use JoVE for their research, teaching and learning. The JoVE Research collection includes the content areas of Behavior, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Biology, Cancer Research, Chemistry, Developmental Biology, Engineering, Environment, Genetics, Immunology & Infection, Medicine, and Neuroscience.
- Clinical Nursing Skills in VideoClinical Nursing Skills in Video offers essential visual examples for supporting the curriculum at all levels from undergraduate to professional.
- Open RN Virtual SimulationsA collection of the virtual simulations developed by WTCS faculty and the Open RN team. Each simulation is designed in H5P and is available under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license, allowing free and open access for faculty to utilize, adapt, or modify them. When incorporating or customizing an Open RN virtual simulation at your institution, please ensure to include an attribution statement in accordance with the CC BY licensing.
- CINAHL CE EducationThe CINAHLeducation program provides nursing, social work, and allied health professionals a convenient way to obtain their certificates of completion for continuing education required by the states in which they practice or the facilities in which they work. These interactive modules allow health professionals to satisfy CE requirements online. Each module consists of course material, an interactive review, a competency test, and a module evaluation. A certificate is awarded upon satisfactory completion of the competency tests. Completion requirements are provided in each module.
- DynaMedex
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DynaMedex combines the clinical expertise and extensive, curated disease content of DynaMed with the comprehensive view into treatment options, depth and breadth of drug information and advanced search capabilities of Micromedex. DynaMedex is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other healthcare professionals for use at the point-of-care, now also with built-in drug and drug interaction information from Micromedex. You can also still access DynaMed without Micromedex.
NOTE: This resource is also available as a mobile app. Click on phone icon to learn more.
- Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM)NNLM has made classes eligible for Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) credits, all free of charge. These classes offer Illinois CNE, but nurses from several states may use these classes for CNE credits.
Filter the classes page by Continuing Nurse Education. - USF Health Continuing Professional DevelopmentUSF Health’s Office of Continuing Professional Development is an academic provider of continuing education for healthcare professionals. They offer a variety of free and fee-based continuing education opportunities. Check the program brochures for cost information.