Nursing
Resources
Online Databases
Health Care Organizations
Medical Resources
Specific
Conditions
Drug Information
Patient Education
Complementary Therapy
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| Librarian's
Choice: Here are some links selected by Librarian Linda Soma (2002).
Others follow. http://library.kcc.hawaii.edu/~soma/health.html |
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| Diane Wink is the Associate Director of the School of Nursing at the University of Central Florida. Good, highly relevant links to sites on nursing, child and family, health education, Internet basics, and Macintosh resources. http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~wink/home.html |
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| Reviews ANA Code for Nurses. Provides text and discussion on each point. (printing cost) http://nursingworld.org/readroom/position/ethics/etcode.htm See the Code for Nurses at the Univ. of S. Carolina nursing program site http://www.sc.edu/nursing/hbkcode.htm |
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| The American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA) promotes nursing informatics through networking, education, research, and professional activities. http://links.ania.org/pages/ |
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| Includes feature articles, job information, hot links to other nursing home pages and continuing education offerings. Excellent format. http://www.nurseweek.com/ |
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| Elderweb | A Kapi'olani Community College website for elder care. Large number of links to local services and national sites. http://elderweb.kcc.hawaii.edu |
| The Hardin Health Science Library of the University of Iowa School provides a rich site of nursing and other health links for nursing research and advanced nursing practice. On line tutorials are provided for chronic wound healing and cancer pain education. http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/nurs.html |
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| Very short cases with photos - abou 100 different diagnoses. Try the mystery diagnosis. http://mdchoice.com/photo/photos.asp |
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| Provides a list with links to medical and nursing resources on the internet. Also has a compendium of many funding sources for grants from national endowments to scholarships, to private foundations, all focused at health care. http://www.medweb.emory.edu |
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| Allows user to search on any keyword. Also includes links to institutes, midwifery, on-line publications, and other nursing home pages. http://www.yahoo.com/Health/Nursing/ |
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| Hawaii Medical Library | Explore the links provided by the Hawaii Medical Library, including several databases of information links. http://www.hml.org |
| A page of health links sponsored by the National Library of Medicine. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hinfo.html |
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| CANCERLITÍ is a bibliographic database that contains more than 1.5 million citations and abstracts from over 4,000 different sources including biomedical journals, proceedings, books, reports, and doctoral theses. It is produced by the National Cancer Institute's International Cancer Information Center. http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/overview.html |
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| This is a link to over 20 popular journals. You may see abstracts (summaries) of several articles in each of these journals. To download the full text articles, you need to subscribe for a monthly fee. Other services include an online listing of hospitals that are actively recruiting nurses with an online mail service and information on how to get a license in each state. http://www.nursingcenter.com/journals/ |
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| Contains selected articles from current and past issues. http://www.bmj.com/bmj/ |
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| Contains information about the AMA, links to other medical resources and abstracts of articles. http://jama.ama-assn.org/ |
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| Medscape | The Web's largest collection of free, full-text clinical medicine articles enhanced with keyword searches, graphics, annotated links to Internet resources, and more. 12 easily searchable databases including MEDLINE, Medscape's full-text articles, news, patient information, medical images, and much more. Daily news - filtered by medical specialty sent to you by email. Interactive and self-assessment features including Interactive Case Challenges, and more. http://www.medscape.com/ |
| National Guideline Clearing House | The NGC is a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (U.S. government), the American Medidal Association and the American Assoc. of Health Plans. http://www.guideline.gov/index.asp |
| Medical Matrix | Medical Matrix is a large index of reviewed and annotated current resources. It has many links to other rich sources of information. You need to register as a user but the service is free. http://www.medmatrix.org/index.asp |
| Allows user to use Medline, locate researchers and information on federally-funded research. Includes the Federal Register http://www.cos.com/ |
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| Contains adult and pediatric multimedia textbooks, patient simulations, clinical reference works and links to other Internet resources. Services are available for health care providers and patients. http://vh.radiology.uiowa.edu/ |
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| From the National Library of Medicine. Creation of a complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representation of the male and female body. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html |
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| MedWeb | Med Web is an extensive collection of links sponsored by the Emory University Health Sciences Center Library. Although it mainly lists organizations with specific focuses, these organizations have links to pertinent sources of information on the topic of interest. http://WWW.MedWeb.Emory.Edu/MedWeb/default.htm |
| HealthWeb | Provides a large variety of links to nursing and medical sites. For example, the nursing link leads to a critical care link, which leads to a pediatric site that lets you download asthma protocols. Try it! http://healthweb.org/ |
| From the Oregon Health Sciences University, provides an index to clinical information on the web. http://www.ohsu.edu/cliniweb |
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| A site of the CDC's, allows you to subscribe (free) to the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Requires Acrobat Readers (as many govt. docs do). This site gives you instructions on how to get it. http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/mmwr.html |
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| State of Hawaii Department of Health homepage with links to Resources, Enviornment, Statistics, Vital Records and Regulations. The "Vital Signs of Hawaii" page has links to data on causes of death, infectious and chronic diseases, behavioral health risks and maternal and child health risks. http://www.state.hi.us/doh | |
| Provides ongoing research projects, direct health information, grant information. http://www.nih.gov/ |
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| Also provides an up-to-date immunization information page for diseases ranging from chicken pox to tetanus. Description, transmission, and vaccine information are given for each disease. http://www.cdc.gov/ |
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| Also provides CancerNet which summarizes cancer treatment, supportive care, screening and prevention and investigational or newly approved drugs. The Journal of the National Cancer Institute is also provided online. http://www.nci.nih.gov/ |
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| Contains epidemiological and statistical information, information on World Health Day, international travel and the World Health Report. http://www.who.int/ |
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| Hawaii Community College offers NA, LPN, ADN Programs http://www.hawcc.hawaii.edu/nursing/ |
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| Maui Community College Nursing Division | Maui Community College offers NA, LPN and ADN Programs including online courses in home care and advanced cardiovascular concepts. http://mauicc.hawaii.edu/unit/nursing/welcome.html |
| Kapi'olani Community College Nursing Department | Kapi'olani Community College offers NA, ARCh, LPN and ADN Programs. http://programs.kcc.hawaii.edu/health/nursing |
| Kauai Community College NA, LPN, ADN Programs and online courses in EKG and medical terminology. http://www.kauaicc.hawaii.edu/hed/ |
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| U.H. Manoa School of Nursing offers BSN, Masters Degree and PhD Nursing Programs and online courses in a number of subjects. http://www.hawaii.edu/nursing/ |
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| HPU offers BSN and Masters Degree nursing programs and is located at Hawaii Loa Campus in Kaneohe. http://web1.hpu.edu/index.cfm?section=undergrad25 |
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| University of Phoenix offers BSN completion and Maseres Degree programs. http://www.phoenix.edu/hawaii/ |
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| Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention - CDC | Offiical government links to up to date inforamtion about HIV and AIDS. |
| AIDS Clinical Trials Information | Information about drug protocols for AIDS treatment. A site of the Department of Health and Human Services. http://www.actis.org/ |
| This site provides information on topics such as Cancer Prevention, Environmental Cancer Risks, and Tobacco Use. There is also a form to obtain free cancer information brochures and pamphlets. http://www.cancer.org/ |
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| Cancer resource site from the University of Pennsylvania. Contains news on cancer trials, meetings, support groups, information by cancer type, book reviews, and it also supports keyword searching. http://oncolink.upenn.edu/ |
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| Offers news releases, information and services for health professionals, and links to Pediatric Internet Resources. http://www.aap.org/ |
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| On line information for pediatricians and others interested in child health. Link to a pediatric chat group. Many links. University of Alabama, Burmingham. http://www.pedinfo.org/ |
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| Assist Guide provides numerous links to long term care services for the elderly and disabled in Hawaii. It includes virtual tours of many local nursing homes and retirement centers, links to information and local services. http://www.assistguide.com/ |
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| Contains information on disease, latest research, grants, and caregiver resources. http://www.alz.org/ |
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| Contains patient information, support groups, educational information, statistics and recipes. http://www.americanheart.org/ |
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| An information service focusing on end of life issues. Contains US and Canadian news on euthanasia, transcripts of Senate special committee hearings and a last rights online bookstore. http://rights.org/deathnet/open2.html |
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| A database for patients and health professionals containing drug alerts, patient information, job vacancies, conferences and publications. http://www.pharmweb.net/ |
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| Information about natural products such as aloe, bee pollen and a variety of herbs, their interaction with drugs and other alternative therapies. http://rights.org/deathnet/open2.html |
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| AHRQ
is the health services research arm of the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS), complementing the biomedical research
arm of its sister, the National Institutes of Health. |
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| Contains patient guides on cancer related topics including Chemotherapy, helping children understand, questions about breast surgery and many more. http://www2.cancer.org/materials/index.cfm?cancer_cd=1 |
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| This site is an electronic consumer health library on a wide variety of topics. It allows user to telnet to ask an expert questions on a specific topic. Created and evaluated by the Universit of Cincinnati, Case Western Reserve and The Ohio State University. http://www.netwellness.org http://www.netwellness.org |
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| Medicine Net | A commercial site with consumer information with tabs for Diseases and Conditions, Procedures and Tests, Medications and a glossary. A little slow loading but worth looking at. You can also use the index on the left side of the screen to locate a disease of interest. http://www.medicinenet.com/Script/Main/hp.asp |
| This Yahoo site features a very comprehensive list of alternative medicine resources on the Internet, including fulltext documents, company information, products and USENET groups. http://www.yahoo.com/Health/Alternative_Medicine/ |
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| A paper exploring Chinese medicine can help discover new drugs. http://www.the-scientist.library.upenn.edu/yr1996/feb/chinese_960219.html |
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| Hawaiian Herbal Medicine | An article by Bob Olson about the kinds of herbs, plants and sea products used for healing by the Hawaiian Kahua Lapa'au, or medical priest. (no space in url) http://honolulu.about.com/citiestowns/alaskahawaii/honolulu/ library/hawaii/aa01219h.htm |
| Herbal Medicine | Contains articles, other herb links, software, books and publications. http://herb.com/herbal.htm |
| Traditional Chinese Medicine | A site providing information about what Traditional Chinese Medicine is, accredited schools in the U.S. and types of common practices. |
| Google
Image Search http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search HotBot http://hotbot.lycos.com/ Ithaki Image and Photo Metasearch http://www.todalanet.com/images/ IXQUICK http://www.ixquick.com/ Lycos Multimedia Search http://multimedia.lycos.com/ Picsearch http://www.picsearch.com/ Scour http://www.scour.com/Yahoo! Picture Gallery http://gallery.yahoo.com/ |
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| Compiled by Joanne Noone, Rick Carmichael, Kauai Community College, updated 7/98, 6/00, 1/02, 1/03 JM. Please notify us of non-working links, suggestions and recommended additions at jmatsuka@hawaii.edu. | |
