OTHER USEFUL NURSING SITES

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES/END OF LIFE

• National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (Access Advance Care Planning Help and
• State Specific Advance Directive Forms): http://www.caringinfo.org/i4a/pages/Index.cfm?pageid=3425
• End of Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) Project: http://www.aacn.nche.edu/elnec/

• AHRQ Evidence Based Practice Links to Evidence-Based Practice Center (EPC) Evidence Reports: www.ahrq.gov/clinic/epcix.htm
• Evidence-Based Medicine Resource Center New York Academy of Medicine: www.ebmny.org/cpg.html
• National Guideline Clearinghouse From Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), US Department of Health and Human Services. www.guideline.gov

• American Nurses Association Center for Ethics and Human Rights: www.nursingworld.org/ethics/
• Center for Bioethics Literature (NRCBL): www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/nrc/index.htm
• The ETHX bibliographic database: www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/databases/index.htm
• International Code of Ethics for Nurses Published by International Council of Nurses (ICN): www.icn.ch/icncode.pdf
• Nursing Ethics at Boston College School of Nursing: www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/son/ethics/

· American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA): http://www.ahna.org

· Alternative Medicine Homepage (University of Pittsburgh): ~www.pitt.edu/~cbw/altm.html

· MedlinePlus: Complementary and Alternative Therapies Topics www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/complementaryandalternativetherapies.html

· National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM): http://nccam.nih.gov

· Medi-Lexicon International: www.pharma-lexicon.com/

· Merriam-Webster’s Medical Dictionary on MedlinePlus: www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html

· AJN Guide to Certification, list of State Nurses Associations, and How to Get a License: www.nursingcenter.com

· All Nursing Schools Searchable online directory for schools by location, degree, and/or subject area: www.allnursingschools.com

· American Association of Colleges of Nursing: www.aacn.nche.edu/

· Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education: www.aacn.nche.edu/Accreditation/

· GradSchools.com Nursing graduate school directory: www.gradschools.com/listings/menus/nursing_menu.html

· National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission. (NLNAC): www.nlnac.org/

· US Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Division of Nursing: http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/nursing/

· Academic Center for Evidence-Based Nursing (ACE) University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Includes model for ACE Star Model of Knowledge Transformation, which demonstrates diffusion of innovation from research to practice: www.acestar.uthscsa.edu/About.htm

· Centre for Evidence-Based Nursing, University of York: www.york.ac.uk/healthsciences/centres/evidence/cebn.htm

· McGill University Health Centre Nursing Research: www.muhc-ebn.mcgill.ca/

· HealthierUS.gov http://www.healthierus.gov/

· Medline Plus Interactive Health Tutorials: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorial.html

· HABIT Newsletter (Center for the Advancement of Health): http://www.cfah.org/

· Hospital Compare Site Provides Information on Quality Caregivers: http://www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov/

· Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Network: http://psnet.ahrq.gov/

· American Nursing Informatics Association: http://www.ania.org/

· American Medical Informatics Association: http://www.amia.org/

· Allen, M. (Peg). Nursing Information Access. Celebrating Nursing History: What to Keep. Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section, Medical Library Association. Includes weeding guidelines and listing of classic works: http://nahrs.library.kent.edu/resource/reports/weeding.html

· Links to member libraries, section activities, and current research. Includes link to Key and Electronic Nursing Journals: Characteristics and Database Coverage, a very helpful source reviewing nursing journals: http://nahrs.library.kent.edu/

· NursingCenter Lippincott: www.nursingcenter.com

· Nursing on the Net: Health Care Resources You Can Use: http://nnlm.gov/train/nursing/sampler.html

· Online Journal of Issues in Nursing: Freely available nursing journal, published by Kent State University School of Nursing in partnership with American Nurses Association. www.nursingworld.org/ojin/

· Sigma Theta Tau International/ Virginia Henderson Electronic Library Database: www.nursingsociety.org/

· American Association for the History of Nursing Links to other nonprofit, education, and government websites relevant to nursing history: www.aahn.org/weblink.html

· Other Nursing History Links

· American Nurses Association: www.nursingworld.org/

· National Institute of Nursing Research: http://ninr.nih.gov/ninr/

· National League for Nursing: www.nln.org/

· NP Central Nonprofit site dedicated to practice development, advancement, and educational support of nurse practitioners: www.npcentral.net/

Directories and Databases

· Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Database of all federal programs available to state and local governments (including District of Columbia), federally recognized Indian tribal governments, US territories and possessions, domestic public, quasi-public, and private profit and nonprofit organizations and institutions, specialized groups, and individuals: www.cfda.gov/

· Council on Foundations Membership: www.cof.org/

· Federal Grants Opportunities: www.fedgrants.gov/

· Foundations.org Directory of charitable grant-makers: www.foundations.org/

· Grants for Individuals: Nursing Listing of nursing organizations that offer scholarships and grants to individuals, including MinorityNurse.Com Scholarship Listings: www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/grants/3nursing.htm

· Grants.gov: http://grants.gov/

· HRSA. Bureau of Health Professions: Nursing Nurse Education and Practice Grant Programs: http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/nursing/

· NIH Grants and Funding Opportunities: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/

· National Science Foundation Funding Opportunities: www.nsf.gov/funding/

· Chronicle of Philanthropy and a “Guide to Grants.” http://philanthropy.com/

· COS Funding News Published weekly with a sampling of new and updated award information from the Community of Science Funding Opportunities: http://fundingopps2.cos.com/news/

· Federal Register Government’s “daily newspaper” available from Superintendent of Documents: www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html

· Foundation Center Virtual Classroom Online training (tools, demos, tutorials): http://fdncenter.org/learn/classroom/index.jhtml

Government Sites

· Administration on Aging’s Statistics on the Aging Population: www.aoa.gov/prof/Statistics/statistics.asp

· Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ): www.ahrq.gov/

· Agency for Health Care Research and Quality’s Health Care Cost and Utilization Project: www.ahrq.gov/data/hcup/

· Bureau of Labor Statistics Data on illnesses, injuries, and fatalities: http://stats.bls.gov/

· Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: www.cms.hhs.gov/home/rsds.asp

· HHS Data Council Gateway to Data and Statistics US Department of Health and Human Services:www.hhs-stat.net/

· National Center for Health Statistics Centers for Disease Control: www.cdc.gov/nchs/Default.htm

· National Hospital Discharge and Ambulatory Surgery Summary: www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/hdasd/nhds.htm

· US Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Nursing: http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/nursing/

· American Association of Colleges of Nursing Institutional Data Systems and Research Center: www.aacn.nche.edu/Publications/instdata.htm

· Interagency Collaborative on Nursing Statistics (ICONS): www.iconsdata.org

· National League for Nursing National Nursing Education Database: www.nln.org/research/index.htm

· Pan American Health Organization www.paho.org/

· PeriStats Developed by the March of Dimes Perinatal Data Center: www.marchofdimes.com/peristats/

· Haz-Map Produced by Jay Brown, MD, and made available to the public by National Library of Medicine. A relational database of chemicals, jobs, and diseases. www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/hazmap.html

· Household Products Database. Produced by DeLima Associates and made available to the public by National Library of Medicine. Includes information from brand labels and Material Safety Data Sheets on selected consumer products: http://hpd.nlm.nih.gov/about.html

· TOXLINE® (TOXicology information onLINE) Produced by National Library of Medicine: www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/toxlinfs.html

· Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders (WISER). Produced by National Library of Medicine, WISER is a PDA software tool designed to help first responders when they arrive at a hazardous material (Hazmat) incident, such as a chemical spill. Available for free download from http://wiser.nlm.nih.gov/

· Raymond H. Mulford Library/Medical College of Ohio. Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences. Links to websites for > 3,500 journals in the health and life sciences: www.mco.edu/lib/instr/libinsta.html

· National Women's Health Network: http://www.womenshealthnetwork.org/

· The National Women's Health Information Center: http://www.4woman.org/

· Women's Health Initiative: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/whi/

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