 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 (ANA) Hall of Fame
www.nursingworld.org
Includes profiles of nursing heroes who have changed the profession,
healthcare in general, and the world around us in profound ways.
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
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.
Happy Nurse™ NEW
www.discovernursing.com/happynurse
This site features the Happy Nurse™ online game.
Health Care Without Harm
www.noharm.org
Health Care Without Harm is working to implement ecologically sound and healthy alternatives to healthcare practices that pollute the environment
and contribute to disease.
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
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
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.
Initiative on the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action
www.thefutureofnursing.org
The Campaign for Action offers solutions to challenges facing nurses and builds upon nurse-based approaches to transforming the way Americans receive healthcare.
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
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
www.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
www.mastersinnursing.com
This site features a one page, alphabetical guide to accredited schools offering a master’s degree in nursing.
Merck Medicus
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
www.medi-smart.com/humor.htm
The website features a great compilation of nursing and medical
jokes, humor, and wit.
MinorityNurse.com
www.MinorityNurse.com
MinorityNurse.com provides resources and information for the growing population of minority nurses in America.
Military
Nurses in Vietnam
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
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 Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations
www.ncemna.org
NCEMNA is a national collaboration of ethnic minority nurse associations.
National League for Nursing
www.nln.org
NLN is dedicated to excellence in nursing education.
National Nursing Centers Consortium NEW
www.nncc.us
The consortium supports nurse-led care and nurses at the front lines of care.
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
www.nsna.org
NSNA provides educational resources, leadership opportunities, and career guidance to future nurses.
The Nightingale Declaration Campaign
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."
The Nightingales Nurses
www.nightingalesnurses.org
These nurse activists work to focus public attention on the behavior of the tobacco industry
and its contribution to the preventable epidemic of tobacco-caused disease and death.
Nightingale Policy Institute NEW
www.policynurses.org
This site showcases the expertise of experienced policy nurses in the development of
health, public, and organizational.
Nurse.com
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.
NurseManifest
www.nursemanifest.com
This site features "A Nursing Manifesto: A Call to Conscience and Action."
Nurses in Recovery
www.brucienne.com/nir
This site is for all healthcare professional who are either in recovery or have a desire to be in recovery from drug addiction, alcoholism, gambling, codependency - any obsessive compulsive addictive process.
Nurseradio.org
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
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
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
www.nursing-informatics.com/
Nursing Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery
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
nnlm.gov/training/nursing/sampler.html
This is a web sampler of nursing resources from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.
Nursing Theory Link Page
nursing.clayton.edu/eichelberger/nursing.htm
This site is a compilation of the most used links to information about
nursing theorists, such as Virginia Henderson and Patricia Benner.
Nurse's Career Center
www.nursingworld.org/careercenter/resources
The American Nurses Association has created a site with resources for those looking for a job or leaving a job.
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.
One Nurse at a Time NEW
www.onenurseatatime.org
This nonprofit organization helps nurses look for local, national, and international volunteer opportunities.
Safe Lifting Portal
www.safeliftingportal.com/slp-for-nurses
Provides how-to articles about safe lifting.
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.
The Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library NEW
www.nursinglibrary.org
A resource for nursing research.
Your Future in Nursing
www.discovernursing.com/yourfutureinnursing
This instructional program combines the interactivity of video computer gaming with real-life nursing scenarios
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