Clinical Placement Resources
This guide is meant to support you during your clinical practice placements and will help guide you to the trustworthy resources you need the most. The sections of this guide contain detailed and specific resources, including drug information, nursing care plans, diseases, tests, and community health.
General Information
Clinical Resources
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Nursing Care Planning Made Incredibly Easy
Publication Date: 2018 -
Nursing Care Plans: Guidelines for Individualizing Client Care Across the Life Span
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Publication Date: 2024 -
Care Planning in Children and Young People's Nursing
Publication Date: 2023 -
Nursing Care Plans: Diagnoses, Intervention and Outcomes
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Publication Date: 2013 -
Lippincott's Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans
Call Number: RC 440 S3317 2013Publication Date: 2012 -
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Davis's Comprehensive Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications
Publication Date: 2019
Drugs
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Davis's Canadian Drug Guide for Nurses
Publication Date: 2024Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses® Canadian Version, 19th Edition delivers all of the information you need to administer medications safely across the lifespan-well-organized monographs for hundreds of generic and thousands of trade-name drugs.
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CPS Drug Information This link opens in a new windowThe Canadian standard for drug monographs contains thousands of products, including monographs for drugs, vaccines, natural health products and medical devices, Lexi-Interact drug interaction checker, critical updates: warnings, advisories and drug shortages, and clinical information on many topics such as pregnancy & breastfeeding.
Diseases & Disorders
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Nurse's Pocket Guide : Diagnoses, Prioritized Interventions, and Rationales
Publication Date: 2022
Diagnostic Resources
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Davis's Comprehensive Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications
Publication Date: 2019
Dermatological Resources for Skin of Colour
Many resources teaching about dermatological disorders provide visual examples that feature primarily white skin tones. The following links feature examples of what certain dermatological disorders look like for skin of colour.
- Mind the Gap a handbook of clinical signs in black and brown skin.
- Skin Deep an open access bank of high quality photographs of medical conditions in a range of skin tones.
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Taylor and Elbuluk's Color Atlas and Synopsis for Skin of Color
Call Number: RL 73.3 T39 2023Publication Date: 2023
Community Assessment
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Community ToolboxProvides toolkits to help you get a quick start on key activities in community work. Select the work closest to what you are doing to see an outline of key tasks, examples, and links to more detailed instructional sections.
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Tamarack InstituteDevelops and supports collaborative strategies that engage citizens and institutions to solve major community issues across Canada and beyond.
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Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives (4th ed.)
Publication Date: 2025
Canadian Practice Guidelines
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NSCN - Nova Scotia College of Nursing - Practice Support ToolsTools to support nurses in providing safe, competent, compassionate, and ethical care. Includes practice guidelines.
Patient Safety
There are many resources that promote / offer guidelines for patient safety.
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Healthcare Excellence CanadaThe Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement and the Canadian Patient Safety Institute are now Healthcare Excellence Canada.
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ISMP CanadaThe Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada is an independent national not-for-profit organization committed to the advancement of medication safety.
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So You Want to Teach Clinical?: A Guide for New Nursing Clinical Instructors
Publication Date: 2019 -
Fast Facts for the Nurse Preceptor
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Publication Date: 2015
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