 Cool Nursing Web Sites
These sites have been featured in Donna’s monthly e-newsletter Nursing Connections™.
allnurses.com Nursing for Nurses
www.allnurses.com
A Nursing Community for Nurses The website helps empower those considering nursing, mentors nursing students, and offers practical advice to nurses in U.S. and throughout the world.
American Association of Colleges of Nursing
www.aacn.nche.edu
Information, trends, and resources related to nursing education, nursing workforce, and more.
American Association for the History of Nursing,
Inc.
www.aahn.org
The AAHN site includes extensive information and links about nursing history, conducting historical research, and using archives.
American Nurses Foundation
www.anfonline.org
ANF is the philanthropic and charitable arm of the American Nurses Association and promotes the health of the public and advances the nursing profession through the development and support of programs of excellence.
American
Nurses Association Hall of Fame
www.nursingworld.org/ Hall of Fame
Includes profiles of nursing heroes who have changed the profession, healthcare in general, and the world around us in profound ways.
The Cherry Ames Page
www.netwrx1.net/CherryAmes/
This is a fun site about the ever-popular Cherry Ames series of books.
The
Center for American Nurses
www.centerforamericannurses.org
The Center for American Nurses is a national professional nursing organization that educates, equips, and
empowers nurses to advocate for themselves, their profession, and their patients.
Country
Joe McDonald’s Tribute to Florence Nightingale
www.countryjoe.com
This touching tribute to Flo (and nurses in general) features
audio clips of the four songs Country Joe has written about nurses.
Disaster in Haiti NEW
www.nurse.com/haiti
Nurse.com has designed a special microsite dedicated to stories about nurses and others who have volunteered in Haiti.
Disruptive Women in Health Care
www.disruptivewomen.net/events
This site’s mission is to "serve as a platform for provocative ideas, thoughts, and solutions in the
health sphere."
Exceptional
Nurse
www.exceptionalnurse.com
This one-of-a-kind site provides resources, information, and community
for nursing students and nurses with disabilities.
Forum
for Shared Governance
www.sharedgovernance.org
Here’s the place to find out everything you ever wanted to know about shared governance and then some.
Frontier Nursing Service
www.frontiernursing.org
The Frontier Nursing Service, the first organization in America to use nurses qualified as midwives, combines education and service through a hospital, home health agency, rural healthcare clinics, and a school of nurse midwifery and family nursing.
Health Resources and Services Administration
bhpr.hrsa.gov/nursing
The site features information on financial aid for students and practitioners and grant programs for schools of nursing.
Health Workforce Information Center NEW
www.healthworkforceinfo.org
This online library will help you find and stay up-to-date on health workforce programs and data.
The Heart Truth: Women and Heart Disease
www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/hearttruth/
The Heart Truth is a national awareness and prevention campaign about heart disease in women.
Household Products Database
http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov
The National Library of Medicine Household Products Database links more than 6,000 consumer brands to health effects from Material Safety Data Sheets and allows scientists and consumers to research products based on chemical ingredients.
International Parish Nurse Resource Center
www.parishnurses.org
The site offers resources and information to parish nurses and those interested in the specialty.
Johnson & Johnson’s Campaign for Nursing
http://www.campaignfornursing.com
Johnson & Johnson’s Campaign for Nursing website offers information designed to enhance the image
of the nursing profession, recruit new nurses and nurse faculty, and help retain nurses currently in
the profession.
The Luminary Project: Nurses Lighting the Way to Environmental Health
theluminaryproject.org
The web-based Luminary Project showcases stories of nurses’ activities to improve human health by improving the health of the environment.
Masters in Nursing NEW
www.mastersinnursing.com
This site features a one page, alphabetical guide to accredited schools offering a master’s degree in nursing.
Merck Medicus
http://www.merckmedicus.com
Licensed healthcare professionals residing in the United States who register can
download and continue to update for free the Merck Manual, Harrison's Practice, Pocket
Guide to Diagnostic Tests, and other tools.
Medi-Smart Nursing Humor
http://www.medi-smart.com/humor.htm
The website features a great compilation of nursing and medical jokes, humor, and wit.
MinorityNurse.com
http://www.MinorityNurse.com
MinorityNurse.com provides resources and information for the growing population of minority nurses in America.
Military Nurses in Vietnam
http://www.illyria.com/vnwnurse.html
The Military Nurses in Vietnam page is an extensive compilation of personal accounts, poetry, letters, and photos about and by nurses who served in Vietnam.
NANDA International
http://www.nanda.org
NANDA International is committed to developing nursing diagnostic terminology that would provide
nurses at all levels and in all areas of practice with standardized nursing terminology.
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute Diseases and Conditions Index
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/index.html
The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute Diseases and Conditions Index gives users a quick and easy way to get complete and
dependable information about heart, lung, and blood diseases and sleep disorders.
National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations NEW
www.ncemna.org
NCEMNA is a national collaboration of ethnic minority nurse associations.
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute Diseases and Conditions Index
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/index.html
The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute Diseases and Conditions Index gives users a quick and easy way to get complete and
dependable information about heart, lung, and blood diseases and sleep disorders.
National Guideline Clearinghouse
http://www.guideline.gov/about/about.aspx
The National Guideline Clearinghouse™ is a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
National Nurse Blogspot
www.nationalnurse.blogspot.com/
Visit this blog to learn more about the campaign to create the
Office of the National Nurse within the federal government and
how you can support it
National Student Nurses’ Association
http://www.nsna.org
NSNA provides educational resources, leadership opportunities, and career guidance to future nurses.
The Nightingale Declaration Campaign
http://www.nightingaledeclaration.net
Add your John Hancock to the Nightingale Declaration, in which nurses promise
to "dedicate ourselves to the accomplishment of a healthy world by the year 2020."
Nightingale Policy Group
http://www.nightingalepolicygroup.org/index2.html
The mission of the Nightingale Policy Group is to showcase the expertise of experienced
policy nurses in the development of health, public, and organizational policy to effect
positive change.
Nurse.com
http://www.Nurse.com
Along with articles from Nursing Spectrum and NurseWeek, this website features nursing news, continuing education, jobs, and my online Dear Donna advice column.
Nurseauthor.com
http://www.nurseaurthor.com
This site, sponsored by the Nurse Author and Editor publication, provides direct e-mail links to more than 200 nursing journal and book editors with direct, “one-click” links to many author guideline pages.
Nurseradio.org
http://www.nurseradio.org
Nurseradio.org features one-hour interviews with nurse leaders
and nurse healers that are available around the world 24 hours
a day through Internet streaming.
Nurses for a Healthier Tomorrow
http://www.nursesource.org
Nurses for a Healthier Tomorrow is a coalition of nursing and healthcare organizations working together to wage a communications campaign to attract people to the nursing profession.
Nursing Fact Sheet
http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Media/FactSheets/nursfact.htm
In an effort to clear up misconceptions about the nursing profession, the American Association of Colleges
of Nursing has compiled a page full of nursing facts.
Nursing Informatics
http://www.nursing-informatics.com/
Nursing Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/visitor_information/Nurses_Memorial.html
This website provides information about a memorial honoring armed forces nurses buried in Arlington National
Cemetery’s Section 21 — also called the "Nurses Section."
Nursing on the Net: Health Care Resources You Can Use
http://nnlm.gov/training/nursing/sampler.html
This is a web sampler of nursing resources from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.
Nurses House
www.nurseshouse.org
During this season of giving and giving thanks, I encourage you to remember those in need, including our fellow nursing colleagues. Nurses House provides short-term financial assistance to nurses in need due to illness, injury, or disability. And while many of us are experiencing our own financial pinch this year, it is good karma to give some of what you have away to those who need it even more than you do. Give what you can and be grateful for what you have.
SkillStat Learning
www.skillstat.com
SkillStat Learning features learning tools, such as an ECG Simulator, a cardiac trivia game, and an ACLS quiz; a library consisting of a selection of chapters from two critical care texts; and a selection of products.
The Truth About Nursing
www.truthaboutnursing.org
Created by the founder of The Center for Nursing Advocacy, this site keeps track of nurses and nursing
issues in the media and advocates for more positive and accurate images.
The United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor
Statistics
www.bls.gov/oco/ocos083.htm
The Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2010-11 Edition — Nursing features the latest info on nursing — job outlook, projections, earnings, wages.
University
of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Patient Education Materials
http://www.upmc.com/HealthManagement/ManagingYourHealth/Health
Reference/PatientEducation
Site features easy-to-understand patient education material on
such topics as back surgery, chemotherapy drugs, ostomy care,
cardiology, tests and procedures, and living wills.
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