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ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® This program of the American Nurses Credentialing Center identifies hospitals that have achieved excellence in nursing care. Site includes self-assessment surveys for both organizations or staff nurses

  ADVANCE for Nurses A regional biweekly publication for registered nurses, including job listings, career advice, clinical articles and CE opportunities. Subscriptions are free to RNs.
  Academy of Medical Surgical Nurses- A professional nursing organization.
  AORN Online Association of periOperative Registered Nurses - A professional organization promoting OR and PACU nurses
  Center for Nursing Advocacy An organization "building a grassroots network of nurses to change media's misrepresentations of nurses." Extensive site covering all aspects of media coverage and nursing.
  Care plan Corner Locate care plans on RN Central - a website for nurses with information important to nursing and patient care
  Elsevier Care Plans by Nursing Diagnosis - Care plan constructor
  Evaluating Medical Information on the web. National Complementary and Alternative Therapy site. This short guide contains important questions you should consider as you look for health information online.
  DNP essentials From the American Association of Colleges of Nursing
  Family Violence Prevention Fund The Family Violence Prevention Fund is the nation's foremost expert on domestic violence. Noah Project The Noah Project began over 25 years ago, to serve the needs of family violence victims in Abilene.
  History of Nursing Uniforms
Florence Nightingale, Avenging Angel A web site related to this book by Hugh Small; includes excerpts from actual letters and reports written by Florence Nightingale, and a downloadable illustration of the original Diagram of the Causes of Mortality in the Army in the East in late 1858.

History of Frontier Nursing Service Site includes a biography of Mary Breckinridge, and a history of the Frontier Nursing Service; from Frontier Nursing Service Inc.

Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not by Florence Nightingale; requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to download; from the Delta Omega Classics section of the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health.
Lillian Wald Online and bibliographic resources from the Jewish Women's Archive.
Mentoring resources: GEM-Nursing An "E-mentoring community for registered participants"; and Mentoring: The Experience of a Lifetime - description and order information, an award-winning video from National Student Nurses Association

Profile of Older Americans From the Administration on Aging, statistical information from 1999 forward.

QuitNet: Quit Smoking All Together A site for tobacco use cessation operating in association with Boston University School of Public Health.
Smokefree.gov A site intended to help people quit smoking; "created by the Tobacco Control Research Branch of the National Cancer Institute, with important contributions from other nationally recognized agencies and organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Cancer Society.

From Silence to Voice Discusses some of the issues of nursing public image and how nurses react to them.

Nurses: For Nurses Everywhere. Information and Resources for Nurses Worldwide. An excellent resource. Also includes information for students [an exchange link].
OPERATING ROOM NURSING
  Association of periOperative Registered Nurses - AORN, and SSM Online, [Surgical Services Management] an AORN special resource site for "perioperative leaders", Patient Safety First, a separate site AORN site on clinical and educational resources for patient care, and Clinical Practice Resources, which includes AORN standards and position statementsssociation of periOperative Registered Nurses - AORN, and SSM Online, [Surgical Services Management] an AORN special resource site for "perioperative leaders", Patient Safety First, a separate site AORN site on clinical and educational resources for patient care, and Clinical Practice Resources, which includes AORN standards and position statements
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Includes the The Division for Healthcare Quality Promotion (formerly the Hospital Infections Program) which has sections on Hand Hygiene, Bloodborne Pathogens; Sterilization Disinfection
  How informed are you about consents? An article by Nancy J. Brent, RN, JD, from NSO Risk Advisor, July 1993
  Latex Allergies An online tutorial from the National Library of Medicine's Medline Plus that addresses patient reactions to latex.
  Latex Allergy From the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)Latex Allergy From the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
  Perioperative Management of the LATEX-ALLERGIC Patient By Gary Kantor, MD, Department of Anesthesiology at University Hospitals of Cleveland
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