Links for NURS 5382

Advanced Nursing Roles

Many interesting data can be derived by using an electronic phone book (how many physician offices are there in a zip code; how many nursing homes are there in an area code; how many supermarkets are there available to a zip code population?) One phone book UTA student faculty and staff may use within the Libraries is:
ReferenceUSA

U.S. Census Bureau (http://www.census.go v)
US population Census data is collected once every 10 years. The last census was 1990, the next census is 2000.

Local census projections and estimations are available through (as well as lots of other regional data):
North Texas Council of Government (http://www.ntcog.dst.tx.us/)

Tarrant County Government (http://www.tarrantcounty.com)

City of Arlington (http://www.ci.arlington.tx.us/)
Arlington Independent School District
City of Dallas (http://www.ci.dallas.tx.us)
City of Fort Worth (http://www.ci.fort-worth.tx.us/)
City of Grand Prairie (http:///www.ci.grand-prairie.tx.us/)

The United Way of Metropolitan Tarrant County's Blue Book is now available
online. It's very handy when doing a community services analysis.
http://uwmtc.org/bluebookonline.html

Helen

A surprising amount of data about a community is available through the school systems public records. One can estimate poverty level based on percentage of children in a school on free or reduced lunch. One can estimate language skills of a community by considering number of children in English as a Second Language programs. To obtain specific school level data, start at the Texas Education Agency's Texas Academic Excellence System search page:
Texas Education Agency's Texas Academic Excellence System

State of Texas Government World Wide Web
Texas Legislative Bills Website
NursingWorld/ANA
Texas Nurses Association

One of my favorite search engines for looking for government web sites: www.google.com/unclesam

FedStats: More than 70 agencies in the United States Government

Complete list of databases available at UTA | Instructions for setting your computer so you can get them from home

Citation manuals: This links to a page which provides further links to citation manuals on the Web.

OPAC
At UTA, the catalog, PULSe will provide the same information a paper card catalog as well as information as whether the item is checked out or not. PULSe will tell of whole books, whole journals, and other materials the UTA libraries own. It can also aid in determining exactly which issues of which journals are available in the library but will not provide data on articles within those issues.

INTERLIBRARY LOAN ILL

Bibliography of Legal & Government Publications

Links to some Government Web Sites, including Texas & US

Search of US federal laws: THOMAS
US government regulations: Code of Federal Regulations
Search Texas state laws: Texas Legislature Online
Texas state regulations: Texas Register | Texas Administrative Code

The database available to UTA students, staff, & faculty quite helpful to government legal research is: Academic Universe | Instructions for setting your computer so you can get it from home

Bibliography--"Legal Material" by Trudy deGoede

hough@uta.edu 817 272-7429