Selected Internet Resources on Nursing & Health Sciences
General Sites 
BioMed Central (
http://www.biomedcentral.com/)
BioMed Central provides full-text, peer reviewed research in all areas of biology and medicine.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (
http://www.cdc.gov/default.htm)
Offers statistics, news, consumer fact sheets, and other resources on diseases.
Hardin MD (
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/index.html)
A subject guide to internet health resources. This site is maintained by the University of Iowa.
National Institutes of Health (
http://www.nih.gov/)
Healthfinder TM (
http://www.healthfinder.gov/
Provided by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. This is the government's gateway website for health information.
HealthWeb (
http://healthweb.org/)
Provides links to evaluated medical resources on the WorldWideWeb.
Medline Plus (
http://medlineplus.gov/)
Health care information from the National Library of Medicine.
Public health infolinks (
http://www.sph.emory.edu/PHIL.php)
This page, maintained by Emory University, contains links to public health information. The links under "Image Collections" are excellent.
Clinical Areas
Alzheimer's
Alzheimer's Association (
http://www.alz.org)
Anesthesiology
American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (
http://www.aana.com/)
American Association of PeriAnesthia Nurses (
http://www.aspan.org/)
Autism
Autism Information Center (
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism
Cancer
American Cancer Society (
http://www.cancer.org/)
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 (
http://www.iarc.fr/)
From the World Health Organization, covers basic cancer epidemiology.
National Cancer Institute (
http://www.cancer.gov/)
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 (
http://www.ons.org/)
This site has a useful clinical practice page.
Oncology Tools (
http://www.fda.gov/cder/cancer/)
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) (
http://www.apon.org/)
OncoLink (
http://www.oncolink.org)
This site is provided by the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center. It is designed primarily for patient use.
Cardiac
American Heart Association (
http://www.americanheart.org/)
Consumer information about heart disease.
Heart Information Network (
http://www.heartinfo.org)
Provices patient guides.
Case Management
Case Management Society of America (
http://www.cmsa.org/)
Critical Care
American Association of Critical-Care
Nurses (
http://www.aacn.org/)
Provided here are its standards of practice and professional performance.
Society of Critical Care Medicine (
http://www.sccm.org/)
Features American College of Critical Care Medicine guidelines and practice parameters.
Diabetes
American Association of Diabetes Educators (
http://www.aadenet.org/)
A source for continuing education, it also provides a bulletin board and a research database.
American Diabetes Association (
http://www.diabetes.org/default.asp)
Primarily a resource for people living with diabetes.
Emergency
Emergency Nursing World (
http://www.enw.org/)
Includes clinical articles for emergency nurses, such as "Heat Emergencies."
Emergency Nurses Association (
http://www.ena.org/)
Geriatric
American Association of Retired
Persons (
http://www.aarp.org/)
National Gerontological Nursing Association (
http://www.ngna.org/)
National Conference of Gerontological
Nurse Practitioners (
http://www.ncgnp.org/)
HIV / AIDS
AIDSinfo (
http://aidsinfo.nih.gov
ANAC: Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (
http://www.anacnet.org/)
CANAC: Canadian Association of Nurses
in AIDS Care (
http://www.canac.org/)
Gateway to AIDS Knowledge (
http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/)
This site covers many aspects of HIV/AIDS, but seems especially strong on preventive, treatment and social aspects.
National HIV Nurse's Association (
http://www.nhivna.org.uk/)
(United Kingdom).
National Library
of Medicine (
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/hiv.html)
Home Care
Homecare Online (
http://www.nahc.org/
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 (
http://www.hospicenet.org/)
Information for patients with life-threatening illnesses as well as for their care-givers and friends
Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (
http://hpna.org/)
Innovations in End-of-Life Care (
http://www.edc.org/lastacts/)
An online journal from the organization
Last Acts Task Force on Institutional Innovation.
Medical-Surgical
Association of Operating Room Nurses (
http://www.aorn.org/)
The "Research" section especially has useful information, including articles from the AORN Journal.
Midwifery
The American College of Nurse-Midwives (
http://www.acnm.org/)
Their "Resources and Bibliography" page has information on common questions about midwifery.
Midwives Alliance of North
America (
http://www.mana.org/index.html)
Neonatal
National Association of Neonatal
Nurses (
http://www.nann.org/)
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 (
http://www.inurse.com/~anna/)
Information for nurses specializing in renal (kidney) disease.
National Kidney Foundation (
http://www.kidney.org)
Neuroscience
The American Assocation of Neuroscience
Nurses (
http://www.aann.org/)
Mostly information about the association but does have links to sites of interest to neuroscience nurses.
Nurse-Practitioner
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (
http://www.aanp.org/)
American College of Nurse Practitioners (
http://www.acnpweb.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1)
National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (
http://www.ncgnp.org/)
Internet Resources for Nurse Practitioner Students - UCSF School of Nursing. (
http://nurseweb.ucsf.edu/www/arwwebpg.htm)
Uniformed Nurse Practitioners Association (
http://www.unpa.org/)
Nutrition
American Dietetic Association (
http://www.eatright.org)
Pediatric
Association of Pediatric Oncology
Nurses (APON) (
http://www.apon.org/)
National Association of Pediatric
Nurse Associates and Practitioners (
http://www.napnap.org/)
Society of Pediatric Nurses (
http://www.pedsnurses.org/)
Information about the society including position statements.
Psychiatric
American Psychiatric Nurses Association (
http://www.apna.org/)
Radiology
The Basics of MRI (
http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/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 (
http://chorus.rad.mcw.edu/)
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 Imagaing (
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/rad.html)
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 (
http://www.rehabnurse.org/)
Information about the association, an electronic mailing list, and job listings.
School Nurses
National Association of School Nurses (
http://www.nasn.org/)
Research
Medscape (
http://www.medscape.com/)
National Institute of Nursing Research (
http://www.nih.gov/ninr/)
This is a division of the National Institutes of Health.
PubMed Central (
http://pubmedcentral.nih.gov/)
A free archive of life sciences journals.
Virginia Henderson International
Nursing Library (
http://www.stti.org/VirginiaHendersonLibrary/)
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.
Alternative Medicine
Multiculturalism and Nursing
Quackery on the Web
National Council Against
Health Fraud (
http://www.ncahf.org/index.html)
Quackwatch (
http://www.quackwatch.com/
Created by Stephen Barrett, M.D., with the goal of combatting "health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies."
Demographic Data
Pharmacology
Center for Drug Evaluation
and Research (
http://www.fda.gov/cder/)
(U.S. Food and Drug Adminstration) Contains a searchable drug information database.
Drug Infonet (
http://www.druginfonet.com/)
This site includes details from drug package inserts, consumer drug pamphlets, and links to other sources of drug information.
Nevada Resources
Associations
Nevada Nurses Association (http://www.nvnurses.org/)
This site provides information about the Association and legislative action in Nevada pertaining to health care.
State Government
Dept. of Human Resources. Health Division (http://health2k.state.nv.us)
Nevada State Board of Nursing (http://www.nursingboard.state.nv.us/)
Available here is information on licensure and certification, continuing education. Board minutes may also be obtained.
State Board of Medical Examiners (http://www.state.nv.us/medical/)
Hospitals
Boulder City Hospital (Boulder City)(http://www.bouldercityhospital.org/)
Mountain View
Hospital (Las Vegas) (http://www.mountainview-hospital.com/)
St. Rose Dominican Hospital (Henderson)
(http://www.strosehospitals.org/)
Information about the hospital, including employment opportunities. The site also offers a health risk assessment test and provides information on a variety of consumer health topics.
Sunrise Hospital and Medical
Center (Las Vegas) (http://sunrisehospital.com)
Information about the hospital, including employment opportunities.
University Medical Center of Southern
Nevada (Las Vegas) (http://www.umc-cares.org/)
Valley Health System (includes Desert Springs, Summerlin, Valley, and Spring Valley hospitals) (Las Vegas)(http://www.valleyhealthsystem.org/)
Other
University of Nevada School of Medicine (Savitt Library) (http://www.med.unr.edu/medlib/)
West
Charleston Public Library Health Sciences Library (http://www.lvccld.org/special_collections/medical/index.htm)
