The Interagency Council on Information Resources in Nursing (ICIRN) has released the 26th edition of Essential Nursing Resources (ENR), an
expansive resource list intended to be used by nurses and librarians.
Because the list of possible resources has grown so large the ENR has
become too large and expensive to publish in print and so it appears
only online at www.icirn.org on the ICIRN website.
Nurses
can use ENR as a tool to assist them with building a personal
professional collection of resources to support and advance their area
of practice. Librarians can utilize this tool as an evaluation point in
determining collection development, and as a reference tool. ENR is
neither a comprehensive presentation nor product endorsement, but
represents the opinions of the contributors. This tool is meant to
assist nurses and librarians to evaluate on their own what resources
best apply to their particular situation. Only the most recent editions
and website addresses have been included. The ENR was compiled to point
to pathways for exploration, rather than be an end point, and to expand
to other formats beyond traditional references.
New to this edition is a very handy key to let users know if: $ =fee required; M=mobile; O=online; P=print for each resource listed. New and redesigned sections in
this edition include Blogs; Forums and Discussion list; Evidence-based
Nursing; Management; Patient Safety/Quality Assurance; and Toxicology,
Environmental, Occupational Health.
