Web Sites for Nurses

Professional Associations

• American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
• American Academy of Nursing
• American Association of Critical Care Nurses
• American Association of Nurse Anesthetists
• American Organization of Nurse Executives
• American Nurses Association
• American Nursing Informatics Association
• American Psychiatric Nurses Association
• Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses (AORN)
• Emergency Nurses Association
• Maryland Board of Nursing
• National Association of Orthopedic Nurses
• National League for Nursing
• Oncology Nursing Society
• Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society

Information Resources

• Agency for Health Care Policy and Research --- Evidence based medicine and practice guidelines
• AllNurses.com --- Metasite for nurses. Includes nursing news, CE information, job listings, and discussion groups.
• American Association of Poison Control Centers --- Provides tools to find poison control centers in other states, statistics on poisoning, consumer education, and descriptions of myths about poisons.
• CancersourceRN --- Sponsored by the Oncology Nursing Society, this site provides updated oncology news, patient education materials, and general information about managing patients with various types of cancer.
• Cybernurse --- Site maintained by two nurses. Includes information on the history of nursing and nursing as a career. Also includes special prayers for nurses, nursing humor, CE information, and links to nursing journals and to all the state boards of nursing.
• Emergency Nursing World --- Browsable site with recent clinical articles and practice guidelines related to critical care nursing.
• Health, United States, 2003 --- Health statistics
• Martindale's Virtual Nursing Center ---Includes information about nursing journals and online CE opportunities. Also links to online medical dictionaries and interactive tutorials.
• Maryland Poison Center --- Web site of local poison control center. Includes emergency contact info by phone and TDD. Site also offers an interactive quiz, information about local poison education programs for professionals and laypeople, and fact sheets ("tox alerts") about common poisons.
• MEDLINE via PubMed
• Merck Medicus --- A gateway to many free, full-text resources, including Harrison's Online, Dorland's Medical Dictionary, and the Cecil Textbook of Medicine . Requires a free registration process that includes entering a valid professional license number.
• Minority Nurse.com --- Professional development site for practicing nurses and nursing students who are members of an ethnic minority group. Includes an online journal, a discussion forum, and job location information.
• National Institutes of Health --- Gateway to the web sites of the various agencies that fall under the NIH umbrella, including the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
• National Institute of Nursing Research --- Web site of a federal agency whose mission involves the establishment of scientifically-proven nursing practices. Extensive grant information is accessible on this site. Also includes links to government publications on clinically-relevant issues such as pain management.
• Nursing World --- A metasite sponsored by the American Nurse's Association. Includes an online journal and listings of CE opportunities.
• Oncolink --- A University of Pennsylvania site that provides cancer information to professionals and consumers. Many articles include bibliographies.
• RxAssist --- Web site of program that identifies sources of low-cost pharmaceuticals for financially-needy patients. Designed for health professionals who are working on behalf of their patients.
• RX List:The Internet Drug Index
• Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics --- Online orthopedics text that was first published c. 1996. Fully browsable and searchable. Many of the disease monographs include links to articles in the journal literature. Also includes anatomical atlas of bones, muscles, joints, and nerves and information about medications that are commonly used in orthopedics.
  

  Nursing Journals

  • Please go to Main Journals Page
  • Free Medical Journals --- Gateway to journals that are available free full-text online.

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