Learning Resource Center
Nursing Learning Resource Center (NLRC)
The NLRC is located on the first floor of the Academic Building at 333 N. Washington Avenue in Dallas. The NLRC has a circulation desk at the Tech Point Desk, and contains materials that specialize in nursing. Resources support research and nursing student learning and include scholarly and full-text literature databases; electronic journals; e-research tools, books and e-books; printers; and undergraduate print textbooks for check-out. The NLRC has access to all the Baylor University Central Libraries electronic resources including a suite of nursing and health science specific resources. You may find full-text textbooks in the Access Medicine and related databases and StatRef! which contains over 100 nursing e-books.
Have a Question? Need Help?
A credentialed professional medical librarian is available to answer questions and provide research assistance weekdays between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Nursing student workers are also available to help and give advice. Need the full-text to an article? Having difficulty obtaining literature on your topic? Please come by the NLRC, call (972) 576-9200, or email nursinglrc@baylor.edu . The email is checked three times per day Monday through Friday. NLRC users may also schedule an appointment with the professional nursing librarian here: https://libcal.baylor.edu/appointments?u=70432
PawPrints at the Nursing School
A supplemental printing queue is available to nursing students to simplify the printing process. Printing on legal size paper is required by some nursing instructors and installing the supplemental queue allows that option to be selected. To take advantage of the nursing printing queue please follow the following steps:
- Install the regular PawPrints queues at www.baylor.edu/pawprints
- Install the PawPrints-Supplement-Nursing queue at https://baylor.box.com/v/software-for-students
- With both installed, a user may now send all print jobs using “PawPrints-Nursing.”
- The options the user chooses for the document: simplex/duplex, BW/color, letter/legal will determine which printer the document can be released to for completion.
- If a user tries to release to a printer that cannot handle the options (e.g. legal to a color printer with no legal paper), the release page will deny the job and tell them why, and the user will need to reprint.
- The printer named Nursing-LRC-B is the only printer that allows for legal sized documents.
Staffing Hours
The Information Desk is staffed about 40 hours a week during regular semesters. Fall and spring NLRC Desk staffing hours begin on the first day of class. Standard Desk staffing hours during the fall and spring semesters are Monday – Friday, 8am-5pm.
NLRC Information Desk staffing hours are posted on this website and displayed on monitors around the nursing school buildings. Desk staffing hours for holidays, summer school, breaks and between sessions vary. These special hours will be posted in advance. For more information, go to the NLRC website, call (972) 576-9200 or email nursinglrc@baylor.edu .
Borrowing Books and Equipment
Students may borrow most books from the NLRC for up to three weeks. Books may be renewed for another three weeks by stopping by, emailing nursinglrc@baylor.edu or calling (972) 576-9200 and asking to renew the item. You do not need to have the item with you. However, if someone else has requested the item, it must be returned on the due date and cannot be renewed.
When the NLRC Desk is not staffed books, or other NLRC items may be returned to the NLRC Desk at the Tech Point location.
The following clinical equipment may be checked out at the Clinical Simulation Building (CSB) for 3 weeks:
- sphygmomanometers (blood pressure cuffs)
- otoscope/ophthalmoscope kits
Late Fees
Late items are charged a fee for each day late past the original due date. Computer-generated overdue notices are automatically sent to the user’s Baylor email account. Late fees are then added to a student’s monthly Baylor bill and can be paid online.
Reserve books
- May be borrowed for two hours.
- You may ask to renew for a second two-hour period
- Call 972.576.9200 or
- Ask in person at the Information Desk.
- If the NLRC Desk is closed, return the item by leaving it on the Tech Point Desk. Send an email to Nursinglrc@baylor.edu documenting when the item was returned. The item will be checked in on the next LRC business day and any late fee will be adjusted, if necessary.
Study Guides/Reviews for NCLEX-RN and Nursing Specialties
The Nursing LRC has study guides for NCLEX-RN and HESI specialties test review and practice which can be checked out for nursing student use. The print books are located at the TechPoint Desk. Our online subscription to StatPearls includes NCLEX – RN, Nurse Practitioner – Midwife, and Family Medicine test question banks.