Nursing/Medicine Websites
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[edit] General
MedlinePlus is a resource for finding consumer health information on a wide range of health topics. It is produced by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health. MedlinePlus has interactive patient tutorials, extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, and latest health news.
Maryland Health → Go Local is a directory of local health-related services and programs serving the citizens of Maryland
Reviews medical news stories from popular sources (newspapers, magazines, television) and assesses the accuracy of reporting and the adequacy of support in the media stories.
This tutorial is intended for any health care practitioner or student who needs a basic introduction to the principles of Evidence-Based Medicine.
Provides links to Web sites of interest to nurses and allied health professionals. Information for each site includes hyperlinked URLs, organization and website descriptions.
This site gives links to categories of web sites for primary care, case studies, HIV/AIDS, women's health, pediatric, and alternative healing resources.
This is a catalog of biomedical and health related web sites maintained by the Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University. It contains a collection of hundreds of online medical sites, including medical journals and newsletters, as well as some popular health publications. Many of these have full text that can be downloaded.
Provides a number of links to nursing resources for a wide array of topics, such as practice guidelines and conferences.
This site contains links to high-quality, peer-reviewed information. Registration is free and registrants can get updates via e-mail. MEDLINE, TOXLINE, AIDSLINE, and a drug information database can be searched without leaving the site.
This well-maintained website is the largest medical and bioscience resource directory on the Internet. Contains a wealth of well-organized information for students and health professionals at all levels. The leading journals in over 80 specialties are identified, and breaking news can be readily accessed by specialty.
Created for the Interagency Council on Information Resources in Nursing (ICIRN), a metasite consisting of links to lots of reference sources on nursing. Covered topics include archives, blogs, audiovisuals, book lists, bioethics, complementary/alternative medicine, consumer health/patient education, databases and indexes, dictionaries, drugs and toxicology, education/career information, grants resources, history of nursing, informatics, patient safety, public health/disaster preparedness, statistics, and writer's manuals and guides.
A tutorial designed to help nursing students and nurses in learning to implement evidence-based practice. Evidence-based practice (EBP) in nursing is using and carrying out nursing practices based on the best available knowledge. It integrates the nurse's clinical expertise with the best external research evidence and encourages nurses to examine nursing practices, analyze alternative and contradictory data, and make sound nursing care decisions supported by the best available research evidence. (Thanks to ACRL-IS for the description)
The Institute for Good Medicine offers tips and advice for students at all levels on how to become a physician.
[edit] Government Information
This is the world's largest medical library, collecting materials in all areas of the health sciences. NLM gives access to health related links and provides a 24-hour MEDLINE search service.
This agency is responsible for government medical research and its site provides links to health information covered by NIH-sponsored research. Also included are links to all the Institutes and Offices that comprise the NIH, and grants and research training supplied by NIH.
This site is a compilation of federal government agencies, most of which are large aggregators of health-related statistics.
Please do not confuse this site with MEDLINE. It allows the researcher to search MEDLINE, but also provides access to health and medical dictionaries, directories, libraries, and a classified list of health topics.
A site of the National Cancer Institute that provides information about cancer, clinical trials, statistics, research programs, and research funding.
A United Nations agency which provides information on international health activities and health services of many nations.
Maintained by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, this site covers a wide range of information from over 550 other Web sites. It also provides over 500 online documents, including health publications and technical literature. It also features databases, which can be searched by topic.
An agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, the CDC provides current information about health topics and statistics. This is the first place to go for travelers' health, immunizations, and infectious disease information.
This site of the National Institutes of Health provides information on CAM, including alerts, treatment advisories, research, and clinical trials.
This site, hosted by the Food and Drug Administration, lists the most current news of food recalls due to health concerns.
This agency is part of the US Department of Agriculture and provides information on nutrition and dietary guidelines including an interactive healthy eating index.
This site was created by a division of the US Office on Women's Health and provides information on both women's and girl's health.
Use this site to answer many questions about Medicare, including information on drug discount cards.
Provides information on price comparisons for the twenty-five most prescribed drugs in Maryland. The website is interactive and allows you to perform a variety of searches to obtain information based on particular drugs, pharmacies, or a geographic location.
[edit] Professional Organizations
Note: The following is a select list. Yahoo's Nursing Organizations Page provides an extensive list of organizations.
ANA is the the professional organization that represents the nation's entire registered nurse population.
Provides information on nursing practice and regulations, licensure and certification, and educational opportunities in Maryland.
This organization is the national voice for America's baccalaureate and higher-degree nursing education programs.
This is the site of the Honor Society of Nursing. It provides information on continuing education, community service projects, research grants, networking, publications, meetings and conferences.
Another branch of Sigma Theta Tau's online nursing resources.
Advancing quality education in nursing is the focus of this organization.
APNA represents the specialty practice of psychiatric-mental health nursing.
[edit] Nursing History
Fosters the importance of history as relevant to understanding the past, defining the present, and influencing the future of nursing.
The Center was founded in 1985 at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing to collect, preserve and make accessible primary sources which document nursing's history.
