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Healthcare research resources and licensure/certification exam prep resources

by Enid Wohlstein on 2025-11-07T11:06:51-05:00 in *Blog vendors: EBSCO, *Blog vendors: LearningExpress, *Blog vendors: ProQuest, Health, Health: Health Professionals, Job and Career, Psychology, Sociology, Test Prep and Skill Practice | 0 Comments

Kentucky Virtual Library provides access to both peer reviewed journals indexed and full text, and Career Preparation with licensing/certification exam prep and skills building content.  We have about 15 hospitals in the KYVL membership and these resources are available, as well as all the other KYVL content -- 65 research, encyclopedia, skills building and test prep resources.  For access, someone must be on the network of a public library, school, organization, hospital, university, etc OR have been given log in instructions.  The research databases and test prep resources are restricted to member locations within Kentucky.

For research on healthcare topics or for test prep, we have a page for Health Professionals listing what is most relevant. For example, the following research databases are listed among recommended resources:

  Academic Search Complete > Scholarly multi-disciplinary full-text database, with periodicals; indexing and abstracts for journals; monographs, reports and conference proceedings

 Career and Technical Education database from ProQuest > Full text from nursing journals and related fields

 CINAHL with Full Text > Full text for many of the most-used nursing & allied health journals in the CINAHL index - with no embargo

 

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection > Full text database for psychologists, counselors, researchers and students providing full-text psychology journals

Also listed on our Health Professionals page is the resource Career Preparation within LearningExpress from EBSCO.  This module in LearningExpress contains tutorials, practice tests, study guides as ebooks, flashcards, and more for a variety of different career paths in healthcare and related fields.

Prepare for the following certifications or exams:

Dental Assisting
Emergency Medical Services and Firefighting
EMT
Nursing School Entrance Tests
Nursing Assistant/Nurse Aide 
NCLEX-RN
NCLEX-PN
Occupational Therapy Assistant 
Paramedic 
Pharmacy Technician
Physician Assistant
Physical Therapist Assistant
Radiologic Technologist
Respiratory Therapist
Social Worker ASWB
Surgical Technologist
Veterinary Technician

KYVL resources are responsive and will adjust to mobile devices.  The eBooks in LearningExpress can be downloaded anywhere they are needed.  You can have multiple copies on multiple devices.  There is a mobile LearningExpress app but not everything is available.

We have two flyers to share - one for the Health Sciences Research resources and one for Health Careers and LearningExpress.   We can customize these flyers with the unique links for KYVL members and you can share out the PDFs or post them to a website, online classroom or elsewhere.

 

       

 


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