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Resources for DNP Students

Accessing eBooks

**Please note that these instructions are for the required 899 class texts; you do not need to follow these directions for any ebooks you access for your individual research needs**

A textbook for Nurs 899 with Dr. Buettner-Schmidt is available online: Population Health: A Primer

Due to some licensing restrictions, the ebook is restricted to only 3 users at a time. In order to make sure you and your classmates are able to access the course readings without locking anyone out, please follow these directions:

  • Download and save the chapters that you need to read, one at a time. You are able to download only up to a certain number of pages per day--in the example below, you can download up to 71 pages one day, and that should reset back to 71 pages the following day.
  • Do NOT read chapters online--if three people due that at the same time, it will lock out fellow students.
  • Do NOT download the full book--this will use up one of the three user licenses for 1-2 weeks.
  • Once you have downloaded the PDF of the chapter you need, please close out of the browser.

Finding Measurement Tools

Measurement tools are instruments like surveys, questionnaires, or scales to help collect data from a population—whether patients, students, clients, or subjects. They help quantify variables that are not normally quantifiable with technology and equipment. For example, we can draw blood and run a lipid panel to measure cholesterol levels. However, concepts like anxiety or pain or satisfaction cannot be measured by any equipment or technology so we must rely on measurement tools.

Interlibrary Loan

Interlibrary Loan is a free service that provides NDSU faculty, staff, and students access to the collections of local, regional, and national libraries when we don't have the item in our collections.

The following video demonstrates the main ways to make a request:

When you make ILL requests, the time it takes to receive the item depends on both the item and the library that is able to send it. Generally, articles take 2-3 days, though some of the more obscure journals can take longer. Books can take anywhere from a week to a few weeks to get shipped.