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ONLINE RESOURCES - SUBJECT
GUIDE
NURSING & HEALTH - Selected Links
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Nursing Theory:
Nursing Career & Study Aids:
- Human Anatomy Online - Provided by Myhealthscore.com.
- Martindale's Nursing Center -Links to references, online journals, dictionaries, grand rounds, continuing education courses, and more.
- Medi-Smart: Nursing Education and Career Resources - Nursing continuing education, online nursing degrees, clinical resources, tutorials, news, articles, forums, humor, and nursing job listings.
- McGill University Virtual Stethoscope - An internet resource for medical and nursing students
- Nursing Center - A portal to peer-reviewed continuing education activities and clinical articles from leading nursing journals, a career center, a nurse community and more.
- Nurse.com - Includes jobs database, career information, continuing education courses, and more.
- Nursing Jobs at Advance - Can searching for LPN nursing jobs, LVN jobs, RN jobs, and more.
- Nursing Jobs Available at allnurses.com - Nursing specific employment resource.
- Physical Exam Study Guides - Thorough and clear guides created by the University of Florida Medical Program.
- Types of Nurses: Nursing Jobs and Nursing Schools - Career information, nurse training programs and nursing degree programs.
- Yahoo---Nursing - one of the most popular ways to find information on nursing & health care
Nursing Cultural Competency:
- Countries and Their Cultures - Offers profiles including folklore, rites of passage, living conditions, and social problems inter alia.
- The Cultural Orientation Resource Center - focuses on refugee populations, explaining their cultural background.
- Ethnomed - is based out of Seattle and addresses the health and cultural concerns of the minority communities there. The CIRRIE, SUNY Buffalo, has developed a 13-volume series.
- Multicultural Canada - Provides a great deal of data on hundreds of ethnic groups/cultures; the details cover economic life, kinship and family, culture, religion, education, and intergroup relations.
- The Rehabilitation Provider's Guide to Cultures of the Foreign-Born - examining the cultural beliefs of major ethnic groups/cultures.
Health
Consumers:
- Centers
for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) - One
of the 13 major operating components of the Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS), provides news, health topics A-Z, data & statistics,
information on publications, software, training employment and more.
- Drugwatch.com - Information about thousands of different medications and drugs currently on the market or previously available worldwide.
- National
Health Information Center - A health
information referral service, established by the Office of Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion.
- NLM Gateway - National Library of Medicine, provides a global search function for Pubmed, Pubmed Central, and Medline Plus. It is an excellent place to begin a search of health-related government information.
- Medline
Plus - Access to extensive information about
specific diseases, and links to dictionaries, lists of hospitals and
physicians, health information in Spanish and other languages, and clinical
trials.
- Nutrition Government
- Access to all US Gov. web site of nutrition.
Guidelines/Policies:
- Health
Hippo (from FindLaw) - A collection of policy
and regulatory materials related to health care, including congressional
testimony, legislation, and recent [court] decisions impacting managed
care.
- Healthy People - by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans.
- National
Guideline Clearinghouse - A public resource
for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, an initiative of of
the Agency for Health care Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services.
Statistics:
- American Fact Finder - Your source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data from U.S. Census Bureau.
- Data
and Statistics, CDC - Provides scientific data
and surveillance on diseases, as well as health statistics.
- FASTATS
- National Center for Health Statistics - Quick
access to health-related topics such as vital statistics, disease
statistics, morbidity and mortality arranged in an A-Z listing.
- State
Health Facts Online - "State-level data
on demographics, health, and health policy, including health coverage,
access, financing, and state legislation..." for all states and
U.S. territories, from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
- State of the Cities Data Systems (SOCDS) - Provides data for individual Metropolitan Areas, Central Cities, and Suburbs.
- World
Health Report - An annual report on human health
around the world, including research on health risks, diseases, and
disabilities, from the UN World Health Organization (WHO).
Topics/Diseases:
AIDS & Cancer:
- Johns Hopkins AIDS Service - Accurate, updated information on HIV/AIDS treatment, guidelines, prevention, research, education, and epidemiology from doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital; includes online JHU standards of care.
- Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention - Information to prevent HIV infection and reduce the incidence of HIV-related illness and death.
- CDC National Prevention Information Network - A service of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, STD and TB Prevention.
- American
Cancer Society - An excellent resource for
patients, families, and cancer survivors.
- Cancer
- From Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) -
Basic information about different types of cancer.
- Cancer
Statistics - A variety of data sources, including
SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results) and an alphabetical
list of Statistics by Cancer Type.
- National
Cancer Institute - Information of all types
of cancer, treatment, prevention, the role of genetics, and causes;
screening and testing; coping with cancer; support resources; cancer
literature; and PDQ (Physician Data Query). Information
here is reviewed by oncology experts and is based on the results of
current research.
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OncoLink: Abramson Cancer Center of University of Pennsylvania - Comprehensive
information about specific cancers.
- Young
People With Cancer: A Handbook for Parents -
Information on the different types and treatment of cancer, talking
to children about cancer, and more.
Associations:
- American Association for the History of Nursing - AAHN is a professional organization to foster the importance of history as
relevant to understanding the past, defining the present, and influencing the
future of nursing.
- American
Association of Critical Care Nurses - AACN
is dedicated to creating a healthcare system driven by the needs of
patients and families where critical care nurses make their optimal
contribution. The web page provides information on Publications, Certification,
Careers, Continuing Education and more.
- American
Nurses Association- Nursing World - Information
on legal, educational, and professional issues, as well as the online
journal in nursing issues.
- American Public Health Association - Legislative Information Center, Take Action (advocacy), Policy Statements, State Public Health Associations, etc.
- National
Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations (NCEMNA) -
Announcements about NCEMNA's unique programs and activities, as well
as direct links to each member association's Web site.
- The
National Federation of Licensed Professional Nurses (NFLPN) -
A professional organization for licensed practical nurses and licensed
vocational nurses and practical/vocational nursing students in the United
States.
- National
League for Nursing - Information on quality
nursing education such as Achievement Test Catalog, conferences.
- National
Council of State Boards of Nursing - Established
by state government to protect the public's health by overseeing and
ensuring the safe practice of nursing.
- American
Medical Association - Information on education
extending to the graduate medical and continuing medical education and
more.
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