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logo.jpgCool 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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