Nursing Websites
| General Sites |
| General Resources:
Anatomy, Physiology |
| Clinical Areas:
Anesthesiology, Cancer,
Cardiac, Case Management,
Critical Care, Diabetes,
Emergency, Geriatric,
HIV/AIDS, Home Care,
Hospice, Medical-Surgical,
Midwifery, Neonatal,
Nephrology,
Neuroscience, Nurse Practitioner,
Nutrition, Pediatric,
Psychiatric, Radiology,
Rehabilitation, School
Nurses. |
| Research |
| Alternative Medicine |
General
BioMed Central
BioMed Central provides full-text, peer reviewed research in all
areas of biology and medicine.
Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
Offers statistics, news, consumer fact sheets, and other resources
on diseases.
Hardin MD
A subject guide to internet health resources. This site is
maintained by the University of Iowa.
Martindales Virtual Nursing Center
Martindales provides links to medical literature, tutorials, review questions, and other nursing references.
National Institutes of Health
Healthfinder
Provided by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. This is the
government's gateway website for health information.
Healthlinks
An online healthcare and medical portal
that includes a section with useful nursing links
Medline Plus
Health care information from the National Library of Medicine.
Public health
infolinks
This page, maintained by Emory University, contains links to public
health information. The links under "Image Collections" are
excellent.
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General Anatomy and Physiology
Resources Anatomy
Atlas
of the Body: from the American Medical Association
BBC Interactive Body:
information and demos regarding the anatomy of the body from the BBC
Digital Anatomist
Interactive Atlases: from the Structural Informatics Group at
the University of Washington
The eSkeletons Project
website, produced by the University of Texas, is devoted to the
study of human and primate comparative anatomy.
Greys Anatomy
Online
at Bartleby.com
LUMEN Structure of the Human Body: from
Loyala University
Medline Plus: Anatomy: links to consumer-friendly anatomy resources
Medtropolis Home of the Virtual Body
Visible Human Project: NLM's
creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional
representations of the normal male and female human bodies
Web Anatomy:
a collection of study aids for entry-level anatomy and physiology
students provided by the University of
Minnesota
WinkingSkull.com
(study anatomy by body region)
Physiology
Aging
& Disease-related Resources: from the U.S. Department of Health
& Human Services
Bubl Physiology
Resources: directory of physiology links from Bubl Link's
Catalogue of Internet Resources
Morbidity
and Mortality Weekly Report: from the Center for Disease Control
and Prevention
National
Cancer Institute Tutorials: graphics-rich tutorials from the
National Cancer Institute on various physiological aspects related
to cancer, for example, the immune system
National Center for Health Statistics:
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; includes a range of health-related statistics
Organ System Pathology Images: from the University of Utah
PhysioNet: Research Resource for
Complex Physiologic Signals: PhysioNet offers free access via the web to large collections of recorded physiologic signals and related open-source software.
The Whole Brain Atlas:
information on the brain's normal and diseased functioning from the
Harvard Medical School
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Clinical
Areas
Anesthesiology
American Association of Nurse
Anesthetists
American Association of PeriAnesthia
Nurses
Cancer
American Cancer Society
This site provides information on many aspects of cancer, and is
generally aimed at the patient, not the health professional.
International Agency for Research on
Cancer
From the World Health Organization, covers basic cancer epidemiology.
National Cancer Institute
The NCI is part of the National Institutes of Health (U.S.). This site
contains valuable information about cancer, including information on
statistics, clinical trials, and research funding.
Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) Online
This site has a useful clinical practice page.
Oncology Tools
A pilot site from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, this has
information on cancer and cancer drug therapies.
Association of Pediatric Oncology
Nurses (APON)
OncoLink
This site is provided by the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center.
It is designed primarily for patient use.
Cardiac
American Heart Association
Consumer information about heart disease.
Heart Information Network
Provides patient guides.
Case Management
Case Management Society of America
Critical Care
American Association of Critical-Care
Nurses
Provided here are its standards of practice and professional
performance.
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Features American College of Critical Care Medicine guidelines and
practice parameters.
Diabetes
American Association of Diabetes
Educators
A source for continuing education, it also provides a bulletin board and
a research database.
American Diabetes
Association
Primarily a resource for people living with diabetes.
Emergency
Emergency Nursing World
Includes clinical articles for emergency nurses, such as "Heat
Emergencies."
Emergency Nurses Association
Geriatric
American Association of Retired
Persons
National Gerontological Nursing
Association
National Conference of Gerontological
Nurse Practitioners
HIV / AIDS
ANAC: Association of Nurses in AIDS
Care
CANAC: Canadian Association of Nurses
in AIDS Care
Gateway to AIDS Knowledge
This site covers many aspects of HIV/AIDS, but seems especially strong
on preventive, treatment and social aspects.
National HIV Nurse's Association
(United Kingdom).
National Library of
Medicine
Home Care
Homecare Online
A service of National Association for Home Care. Provides consumer
access to the Home Care/Hospice Agency Locator, a database of more than
22,500 home care and hospice agencies.
Hospice
Hospice Net
Information for patients with life-threatening illnesses as well as for
their care-givers and friends
Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association
Innovations in End-of-Life
Care
An online journal from the organization
Last Acts Task Force on
Institutional Innovation.
Medical-Surgical
Association of Operating Room Nurses
The "Research" section especially has useful information, including
articles from the AORN Journal.
Midwifery
The American College of Nurse-Midwives
Their "Resources and Bibliography" page has information on common
questions about midwifery.
Midwives Alliance of North
America
Neonatal
National Association of Neonatal
Nurses
Information for nurses specializing in the care of newborn babies, sick
babies, and premature babies. This site is geared toward members of NANN.
Nephrology
American Nephrology Nurses'
Association
Information for nurses specializing in renal (kidney) disease.
National Kidney Foundation
Neuroscience
The American Assocation of
Neuroscience Nurses
Mostly information about the association but does have links to sites of
interest to neuroscience nurses.
Nurse-Practitioner
American Academy of Nurse
Practitioners
American College of Nurse
Practitioners
National Organization of Nurse
Practitioner Faculties
Internet
Resources for Nurse Practitioner Students - UCSF School of Nursing.
Uniformed Nurse Practitioners
Association
Nutrition
American Dietetic Association
Pediatric
Association of Pediatric Oncology
Nurses (APON)
National Association of Pediatric
Nurse Associates and Practitioners
Society of Pediatric Nurses
Information about the society including position statements.
Psychiatric
American Psychiatric Nurses
Association
Radiology
The Basics of MRI
An excellent feature of this online textbook is the large number of
images available. The textbook is written by Dr. Joseph P.Hornak, a
Professor of Chemistry and Imaging Science at the Rochester Institute of
Technology.
CHORUS: Collaborative Hypertext
of Radiology
CHORUS is a hypertext for physicians and medical students. The documents
available describe diseases, radiological findings,
differential-diagnosis lists ("gamuts"), and pertinent anatomy,
pathology, and physiology. The site is provided by the Medical College
of Wisconsin.
Hardin MD --
Radiology & Medical Imaging
A section of the Hardin Meta Directory, which claims to link to only the
pages with the best links ("best" defined as having connection rates
above 80%).
Rehabilitation
Association of Rehabilitation
Nurses
Information about the association, an electronic mailing list, and job
listings.
School Nurses
National Association of School Nurses
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Research
Medscape
National Institute of Nursing
Research
This is a division of the National Institutes of Health.
PubMed Central
A free archive of life sciences journals.
Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library
This website provides access to a peer-reviewed journal, the Online
Journal of Knowledge Synthesis for Nursing, a research registry, and
other resources for nursing scholarship.
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Alternative
Medicine
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