Step 1:
Access the Nursing Reference Center. Note: If you're off-campus, you will be prompted to login with your myPVCC username and password.
Step 2:
Select the appropriate tab before searching. Note: You can leave it on "Basic Search" to search across everything.
- Diseases & Conditions - Contains both "quick lessons" which are designed to map the nursing workflow and "evidence-based care sheets" which contain summaries of the diseases and how to treat it.
- Skills & Procedures - Contains both clinical papers detailing the steps to achieve proficiency in a specific nursing tasks, as well as "cultural competencies" on how to give care to specific groups of people.
- Drug Information - Find details about specific drugs by searching Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses and AHFS Drug Information Essentials.
- Patient Education - Contains handouts and information directed to patients, not nurses.
- Practice Resources - Access and search several ebooks, including Diseases and Disorders: A Nursing Therapeutic Manual and Comprehensive Handbook of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests,

Step 3:
Enter your search term. In this case, we will search the "Drug Information" tab for "ibuprofen."

Step 4:
Click from the results to read the entry.
