Nursing Resources & Links

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance..... Will Durant (1885-1981)

Some of my favorite web sites are listed below:

Learning tools and games

http://freenursetutor.com/ (Learning Games)    my favorite games are:

                http://www.freenursetutor.com/endocrine/games-endocrine-rags-to-riches-millionaire-type-game--2.html

                http://www.freenursetutor.com/cardiac/flashcards-matching-hypertension-and-cardiac-medications-3.html

http://www.rale.ca/Recordings.htm

http://www.or-live.com/ (operations see live via pod cast)

http://evolve.elsevier.com/staticPages/s_index.html

Cardiac Resources

http://www.wilkes.med.ucla.edu/inex.htm

http://www.bioscience.org/atlases/heart/

http://www.chfpatients.com/

http://www.blaufuss.org/tutonline.html

http://www.anesoft.com/ click on "free stuff" then under the heading educational resources - training aides choose either Rhythm for the web or Rhythm 2000

Nursing Associations

http://www.nurseportal.net/ (many useful inks- as well as a link to state board's of nursing)

http://www.nsna.org/ (National Student Nurses' Association - NSNA)

http://www.nursingworld.org/ (American Nurses Association)

http://www.wsna.org/ (Washington State Nurses Association)

http://www.oregonrn.org/ (Oregon Nurses Association)

http://www.nursingcertification.org (Advanced Certifications for Nurses)

http://www.aacn.org (American Association of Critical Care Nurses)

Health Specific Associations

http://www.lungusa.org/ (American Lung Association)

http://www.cancer.org/ (American Cancer Society)

http://www.diabetes.org/main/application/commercewf (American Diabetes Association)

http://www.aap.org/ (American Academy of Pediatrics)

http://www.amhrt.org/ (American Heart Association)

http://www.ama-assn.org/ (American Medical Association)

http://www.acnm.org/ (American College of Nurse-Midwives)

http://www.acog.org/ (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists)

http://www.obgyn.net/ (OB/GYN Net)

http://www.awhonn.org/ (Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses)

http://www.aaaai.org/ (American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology)

Informative and Resource websites 

http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/index.html (Hardin Meta Directory)

http://www.aahn.org (History of Nursing)

http://www.vh.org/ (Virtual Hospital)

http://www.cdc.gov/ (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)

http://www.nih.gov/ (National Institutes of Health)

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ (Medline)

http://www.os.dhhs.gov/ (Office on Women’s Health, U.S. Public Health Service, Dept of Health and Human Services)

http://www.4woman.gov/ (The National Women’s Health Information Center)

http://www.discovernursing.com/http://www.ultimatenurse.com/component/option,com_mtree/task,listcats/cat_id,93/Itemid,59/  (Ultimate Nurse)

http://www.nursingnet.org/ (NursingNet)

http://www.healthopedia.com/

http://www.nejm.org/ (New England Journal of Medicine)

University sites

http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/hsl/internet/nsgsites.html (University at Buffalo New York)

http://www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb/ (Emory University)

http://www.ethnomed.org/ (Harborview and University of Washington website for multicultural information)

 

Inspirational stories

http://include.nurse.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/CM/20070507/HL02/705070332&SearchID=73295766838851

 

Sites specific to Genetics and Breast cancer:

http://www.facingourrisk.org/

http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/project/about.html

http://www.faseb.org/genetics/acmg/pol-24.htm

http://www.bcrfcure.org/rese_meet_king.html

http://www.ovariancancer.com/default.asp

http://www.myriad.com/

http://www.ornl.gov/

http://www.ocrf.org/

http://www.komen.org

http://www.susanlovemd.com