NURSING
Nursing Continuing Education (CE) Websites:
- Online CEUs: A Directory for Nurses.
A directory of online Continuing Education (CE) courses for RNs, LVNs, LPNs, Nurse Practitioners, critical care nurses, EMTs, paramedics, and other individuals working to provide health care. The directory is free, and the CEU hours are very reasonable.
- Education Scholar
A comprehensive, fee-based Web-based program to advance teaching skills, professional scholarship, and instructional improvement for educators in the health professions.
- Nurse-Digest Online
Online nursing CE that's fast, easy to use, totally flexible, and inexpensive
- NCQA (National Committee for Quality Assurance)
NCQA is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. There is a charge for these.
Emergency Nursing
Gerontological Nursing
- Geroweb Virtual
Library on Aging (Wayne State U.)
"Designed as an online resource for researchers, educators, practitioners,
and others interested in aging and for older individuals".
Pediatric Nursing
- Virtual
Pediatric Patient
(Virtual Pediatric Hospital) Provides scenarios of common pediatric conditions:.
presenting symptoms (including images), differential diagnoses, lab &
diagnostic test values, treatments, prognoses, & follow-ups. At the
end of each scenario is a discussion of the diagnosis in more detail.
Professional Associations/Support
Transcultural Nursing
- CulturedMed (SUNY Institute of Technology)
Wonderful resource for transcultural and multicultural nursing.
- Diversity Rx
"Promoting language and cultural competence to improve the quality of health care for minority, immigrant, and ethnically diverse communities." Includes best practices.
- EthnoMed
Cultural profiles, attitudes toward health issues, translated patient materials.
- Transcultural
and Multicultural Health Links
Maintained by Ellen Bosman at New Mexico State University.
- Transcultural
Nursing
Maintained by a "non profit organization, dedicated to increasing
awareness to the issues of Transcultural Nursing, to promote cultural
diversity in nursing, and propose solutions when problems of bias or conflict
arise."
Other sites:
- Fulltext
Nursing and Psychology Journals Ovid
(Note: You must log
in to use this from off campus)
Full text nursing and psychology journals available online--Not a complete
list, so check the Health & Wellness and CINAHL databases also.
- Library Exercises for First-Year Nursing
Students
From the NOVA MEC
library. Designed to teach students to use web-based resources to
locate nursing information.
- Library Exercises for Nursing 254
Students
From the NOVA MEC
library. Designed to teach students to use web-based resources to
locate nursing information.
- Links
to Nursing Care Plans, Care Planning Software and Case Studies
Maintained by Ellen Bosman at New Mexico State University.
- Nursing
and Allied Health Resource Section of the Medical Library Association
Free resources for nurses including databases, electronic books, electronic
journals, and Web sites related to nursing and allied health disciplines.
- Nursing
Ethics at Boston College School of Nursing
Definition, core resources, links to web based materials, reviews
of research projects, tools database and more.
- Nursing
Sites on the World Wide Web
(U. of Buffalo) Nursing specialty sites.
- Nursing Spectrum
Online
A trade publication for RN's with 10 regional editions. Includes resources
for students and professionals and advertising.
- Nursing
Subject Guide from George Mason University
An excellent collection of the most useful sites for nursing and allied
health.
- Pan American Health Organization
Includes country health profiles for Central and South America and
the Caribbean.
- PeriStats
Interactive perinatal data resource providing maternal, infant and
child health-related data at the stateand county levels, for the District
of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the United States.
- Perioperative Nursing
Resources on the Internet
Sponsored by the Association of Operating Room Nurses.
- Screening
Physical Exam
(Loyola University) Physical assessment review: includes a photograph
of how to perform the assessment, what to look for, and normal findings.
Provides links to information about abnormal findings, detailed instructions
for performing the assessment, and a self-test for that particular assessment.
- Test
Prep Review
Practice exams for Nursing Entrance and NCLEX.
This collection is maintained by Kathryn Willis.
