Nursing Resources

Learn more about the library's health literacy service, where we help departments to produce patient education materials that are more readable and more useful for our patients.

Link to UTMC's Health Information Center page, set up for patients.

This reliable, authoritative, and easy-to-use resource from the National Library of Medicine allows users to link to vetted consumer health content across many different websites.

This guide was assembled by the library to help public libraries in beginning to answer health-related questions for their clientele. The guide now includes information on helping patients find healthcare, learn about their provider, find free and low cost health related mobile apps, and more!

There are also many resources on health for patients in the library's ebook collection, such as Magill's Medical Guide. Try the ebooks search on the library's home page to find more.

This database, from Tennessee Electronic Library, provides consumer-level health information

This site allows one to search for a nurse practitioner near you.

The National Library of Medicine provides this information page on what exactly a nurse practitioner is as well as what they do.

Another useful guide explaining a nurse practitioner and their duties.