 Cool
Nursing Web Sites
These sites have been featured in Donna’s
monthly e-newsletter Nursing Connections™.
allnurses.com Nursing for Nurses
http://www.allnurses.com
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 for the History of Nursing,
Inc.
http://www.aahn.org
The AAHN site includes extensive information and links about nursing
history, conducting historical research, and using archives.
American
Nurses Association Hall of Fame
http://www.ana.org/hof
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
http://www.netwrx1.com/CherryAmes
This is a fun site about the ever-popular Cherry Ames series of
books.
The
Center for Nursing Advocacy
http://www.nursingadvocacy.org
This site keeps track of nurses and nursing issues in the media.
Country
Joe McDonald’s Tribute to Florence Nightingale
http://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.
Exceptional
Nurse
http://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
http://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
http://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.
GEM-Nursing
http://gem-nursing.org
GEM-Nursing is an e-mentoring community that pairs experienced
nurses with nursing students so that the nurses can answer questions,
share experiences, and generally support and nurture the student
nurses.
The Heart Truth: Women and Heart Disease
http://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
Medical Volunteers Association
http://www.imva.org
This site includes a listing of organizations that provide both
long-term and short-term volunteer healthcare services, as well
as valuable information and advice about the logistics and realities
of volunteering overseas.
International Parish Nurse Resource Center
http://www.parishnurses.org
The site offers resources and information to parish nurses and those interested in the specialty. NEW
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
http://theluminaryproject.org
The web-based Luminary Project showcases stories of nurses’
activities to improve
human health by improving the health of the environment.
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.
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 NEW
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 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
http://www.nationalnurseblogsport.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
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 Infomatics
http://www.nursing-informatics.com/
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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
Old Wounds
http://www.af.mil/news/airman/0498/nurse.htm
The site consists of recollections by Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the
first black nurse in the Regular Army Nurse Corps in 1942.
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.
Symbol of a Profession: 100 Years of Nurses’
Caps
http://www.civilization.ca/hist/infirm/inint01e.html
This site showcases nurses’ caps donated to the CanadianMuseumof Civilization by Gloria Kay, a retired nurse, who believed that the
caps should be preserved.
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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