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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 |
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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. |
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Academy of Medical Surgical Nurses- A professional
nursing organization. |
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AORN
Online
Association of periOperative Registered Nurses - A
professional organization promoting OR and PACU nurses |
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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. |
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Care
plan Corner Locate care plans on RN Central - a website
for nurses with information important to nursing and patient
care |
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Elsevier Care Plans by Nursing Diagnosis - Care plan
constructor |
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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. |
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DNP essentials From the American Association of Colleges
of Nursing |
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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. |
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History of Nursing Uniforms |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Lillian Wald Online and bibliographic resources from the
Jewish Women's Archive. |
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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 |
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Profile of Older Americans From the Administration on
Aging, statistical information from 1999 forward.
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QuitNet: Quit Smoking All Together A site for tobacco
use cessation operating in association with Boston
University School of Public Health. |
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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. |
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From Silence to Voice
Discusses some of the issues of
nursing public image and how nurses react to them.
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Nurses:
For Nurses Everywhere. Information and Resources for
Nurses Worldwide. An excellent resource. Also includes
information for students [an exchange link]. |
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OPERATING ROOM NURSING |
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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 |
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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 |
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How informed are you about consents?
An article by Nancy J. Brent, RN, JD, from
NSO Risk Advisor,
July 1993 |
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Latex Allergies An
online tutorial from the National Library of Medicine's
Medline Plus that addresses patient reactions to latex.
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Latex Allergy
From the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration (OSHA)Latex
Allergy From the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) |
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Perioperative Management of the
LATEX-ALLERGIC Patient
By Gary Kantor, MD, Department of Anesthesiology at
University Hospitals of Cleveland |
