Nursing

Meta-sites for Nursing

► Allnurses.com

► Deaconess Hospital Health Science Library Journal Holdings

► Hardin MD: Nursing and Nursing Research

► Hardin meta directory of Internet health sources - An Internet directory of health sources providing Web resources on topics such as allergy, dermatology, pediatrics, nutrition, telemedicine and more.

► Healthfinder - US Department of Health and Human Services - A gateway to consumer health information.

► HealthWeb

► Martindale's Virtual Nursing Center

► Mayo Clinic Health Oasis - Divided into Resources and Newsstand, this site includes a glossary, information on cancer, diet and nutrition, and heart health.

► National Institute of Mental Health - For researchers as well as the layperson, information on Depression, Anxiety Disorders, Alzheimer's, etc.

► National Institutes of Health - News, health information, grants and contracts, etc. There are also reports from the Surgeon General accessible from this site. There is a search option provided at this site to help locate the various information and entities associated with the NIH.

► National Library of Medicine - Links to Medline including PubMed and Grateful Med, and other information sources as well as NLM publications.

► Nursing Center

► Selected Nursing Web Sites

► Student Nurses.com

 

More specialized websites for Nursing

► Blonz guide to nutrition, food science and health - Compilation of nutrition, food, and health resources in online publications, government resources, and so on.

► HIVInSite - Produced by the Univ. of California, San Francisco AIDS Research Institute, the UCSF AIDS program at SF General Hospital, and the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies. Has clinical, policy and prevention segments.

Online Reference Sources

► JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association)- Free full-text available for the most recent 4 issues only from the JAMA Web site. Subject to change without notice. Availabe in print in the Rice library for the years 1970 - March, 2001

► MedlinePlus - This resource is a service of the National Library of Medicine. The encyclopedia is referenced by disease, injury, nutrition, poison, special, surgery, symptoms and tests.

► Merck - Web counterpart of the Merck Manual and one of the few medical references available free in its entirety on the Web.

► National Center for Health Statistics - Part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this site provides access to most of the Center's publications since 1994, selected public-use data files, and other health-related information.

► The Online Medical Dictionary - Graylab CancerWeb - Dr. Graham Dark of the Gray Laboratory Cancer Research Trust (UK), provides this staggering resource, with over 46,000 brief definitions of terms related to "biochemistry, cell biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, science and technology." Each definition is cross-linked to other definitions. The dictionary can be browsed alphabetically or by topic, as well as searched. This powerful resource shines with its sheer volume of definitions, their conciseness and clarity, and the hyperlinking between words.

► RxList: The Internet drug index - Site maintained by a hospital pharmacy director, gives information on nearly 300 drugs, such as action, warnings, toxicity, side effects, and so on.

► NetLibrary (electronic books- selected reference titles) (You must be currently affiliated with USI to access these resources.)

Opportunities in nursing careers (2003)
Careers in nursing (2003)
The caregiver's sourcebook (2002)
Clinician's pocket reference (2002)
Davis's NCLEX-RN review (2001)