Medicine > Nursing
Contributor --
Michel Atlas, University of Louisville
- Achoo: Gateway to Healthcare
- Achoo sees itself as a jump point and information resource for the medical
community and all other Internet users interested in healthcare information.
All aspects of healthcare are included, such as clinical medicine, alternative
medicine, as well as the business aspects of medicine. Achoo seeks to serve
consumers, professionals and the people involved with the business of healthcare.
- AMA- Adolescent
Health Online
- This site contains Adolescent Health Links, AMA Adolescent Health Resources,
Adolescent Clinical Preventive Services, and Parenting Resources.
- AMA Atlas
of the Body
- This atlas, from the American Medical Association, includes a large section
of excellent anatomy and medical illustrations.
- ANA Nursing World:
Nursing Links
- Provides 14 categories of information resources including: Academic Organizations,
Government Resources, Grant Information, Specific Health Conditions, State
Boards of Nursing, and Tutorials/Online Learning.
- BioSites: A Virtual Catalog
of Selected Internet Resources in the Biomedical Sciences
- BioSites is a current listing of important Internet resources in the biomedical
sciences. The sites evaluated here have been selected as part of a collaborative
project by staff in the Resource Libraries within the Pacific Southwest
Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.
- CliniWeb International
- CliniWeb is an index and table of contents to clinical information on
the World Wide Web. It now allows search terms to be entered in English,
German, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. It has direct links to MEDLINE
searches via the PubMed system at the National Library of Medicine.
- Doctor's Guide to the Internet
- This web site is produced by Nuvis, is part of PSL Group, a global organization
dedicated to putting information at the service of medicine. It provides
a large and comprehensive range of condition-specific channels, featuring
news, case studies, and webcasts.
- Drug InfoNet
- Free registration is requested for personalized edition. This website
claims to simplify searching for healthcare information with links to Drug
Information, Disease Information, an Ask the Doctor service, Pharmaceutical
Manufacturer Information, Healthcare News, Health Information, Healthcare
Organization Sites, Government Sites, Medical Reference, and Hospitals Online.
- Galaxy: Medicine
Internet Directory
- Galaxy is the original searchable Internet directory with information
compiled and organized by human Internet Librarians. Select Medicine-Health
Occupations--Nursing.
- Hardin Meta Directory of
Internet Health Sources
- Hardin MD is a "list of lists". Its purpose is to provide easy access
to comprehensive resource lists in health-related subjects. It includes
subject listings in large "one-stop-shopping" sites, such as MedWeb and
Yahoo, and also independent discipline-specific lists. Hardin MD subject
pages indicate the length of lists in each subject, making it easy to see
at a glance which lists are most comprehensive. It includes links to Nursing
and Nursing Research sites, Women's
Health and Gynecology and much more.
- Health A to Z: the Search Engine for
Health and Medicine
- Health A to Z is a comprehensive, well-integrated health and medical resource
for consumers. It is designed to provide users with- free and fast access
to health and medical information and to a vast directory of health and
medical Internet sites- all of which have been individually reviewed and
rated by Health A to Z's staff of healthcare professionals.
- HealthFinder
- This is a free guide to reliable consumer health and human services information,
developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It links
to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and
support and self-help groups, as well as government agencies and not-for-profit
organizations that produce reliable information for the public.
- HealthWeb
- HealthWeb project was conceived in 1994 to develop an interface that will
provide organized access to evaluated non-commercial, health-related, internet-accessible
resources. The resources include those currently available as well as new
resources developed in collaboration with other organizations. The interface
will integrate educational information so the user has a one-stop entry
point to learn skills and use material relevant to their discipline.
- HICUP: Health Information
in Chinese, Uniting Patients, Physicians and the Public
- This site, from New York University School of Medicine, provides patient
information and consumer health materials in Chinese.
- How to Search: Finding
and Evaluating Electronic Healthcare Information Sources
- This site suggests searching strategies to use in order to find clinically
useful information from electronic sources. It is designed for new students
or anyone who wants tips on searching the Internet for health-related information.
- IntelliHealth
- This site provides credible health information from the most trusted sources,
including Harvard Medical School and the University of Pennsylvania School
of Dental Medicine. It includes health news and content as well as access
to trackers, tools and risk assessments.
- Internet Resources
for Nurse Practitioner Students
- This site includes a list of sites that will be both interesting and useful
to NP students. It includes Health Information Gateways, Nurse Practitioner/Nursing
Resource, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Primary Care, Pediatrics, Adolescent
Health, School-Based Health Care, Women's Health, HIV/AIDS, Complementary
and Alternative Health Care, Case Studies, Interactive Tutorials, Evidence-Based
Health Care, Government Agencies, and Pharmacology.
- Kentucky Board of Nursing
- This site includes information about nursing education, continuing educations,
licensure, publications and brochures. It offers on-line verfications for
nurses, nurse aides, and home health aides.
- Kentucky Cabinet for Health
Services Department for Public Health
- This site includes information about chronic disease programs, certification,
licensed or Permit programs, newsletters, local health departments, publications
and data reports and much more.
- Kentucky Coalition of Nurse
Practitioners and Nurse Midwives
- This site provides information and resources for nurse practitioners and
nurse midwives in Kentucky.
- Kentucky Nurses Association
- The association's website includes information about job openings, links
to a number of resources and other information useful to Kentucky nurses.
- Kentucky Nursing Schools
- Listed below are links to schools of Nursing in the state of Kentucky.
Bellarmine University-School
of Nursing and Health Sciences
Berea College- Nursing
Department
Eastern Kentucky University - Dept.
of Baccalaureate and Graduate Nursing
Midway College
Morehead
State University- Dept. of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences
Murray State
University - Department of Nursing
Northern Kentucky University -
Dept. of Nursing and Health Professions
Spalding
University --School of Nursing
Thomas
Moore College --Department of Nursing
University of Louisville
- School of Nursing
University of Kentucky --College
of Nursing
Martindale's Health
Science Guide
This award-winning site contains 22 medical "centers", including radiology,
cardiology and pulmonology, nutrition and pharmacy and a Reference Desk.
MDChoice
MDChoice includes sites for consumers and healthcare professionals. All
content is selected by board certified physicians. It also includes clinical
care calculators and scoring systems.
Medical Matrix
Medical Matrix assigns ranks to internet resources based on their utility
for point-of-care clinical application. Resources are peer-reviewed, annotated
and updated.
Medscape
This site claims to offer the web's most robust and integrated medical
information and education tools. It is organized by medical specialty. Content
is evaluated, created and presented under the guidance of editorial boards
and scientific advisory boards.
MedWeb
This site provides access to 72 different categories of information including-
holistic health, injuries, midwifery, neoplasms, nephrology, public health,
obstetrics, oncology and more.
National Institutes of Health-Scientific
Resources
This site provides links to scientific resources for researchers. It includes
Intramural Research Sourcebook, NIH Special Interest Groups, NIH Research
Labs on the Web, Research and Training opportunities and more.
National Institute of Nursing Research
The National Institute of Nursing Research supports clinical and basic
research to establish a scientific basis for the care of individuals across
the life span.
NursingCenter
This interactive web community and portal was created by nurses for nurses
as a source of nursing information and content that is comprehensive, credible,
convenient, and current.
NursingNet
This site includes NCLEX Review, NP mentoring program, nursing chat rooms,
web forums, nurse practioner and emergency nursing internet resources, and
links to neonatal, critical care, ob-gyn, maternal-child, CRNA, home health
and geriatric, and student nursing internet resources.
NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
NOAH is an authoritative bilingual health information site. It is dedicated
to an underserved population of health consumers, many of whom do not have
English as a first language.
OMNI
This site is a gateway to evaluated, quality Internet resources in health
and medicine. It is aimed at students, researchers, academics and practitionders.
PedInfo: An Index of the Pediatric Internet
Dedicated to the dissemination of on-line information for pediatricians
and others interested in child health. Presents a wide variety of well-selected
sites concerning all aspects of health of children and young adults.
Resources
for Nurses and Families--Resources Index
This site includes links to academic organizations, government information,
grant information, tutorials, listservs, print and online journals and books
and much more.
Student Nurse Information
Center
This site is dedicated to providing nursing students with some helpful
information and links to other resources on the internet. It includes nursing
links, links by specialty, nursing journals/organizations, formulas and
conversions, state boards of nursing and much more.
Virtual Hospital
The Virtual Hospital is a digital health sciences library. It contains
hundreds of books and brochures for health care providers and patients.
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Last Updated: Wednesday, 17-Sep-2003 12:20:38 EDT
