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Selected Websites
Nursing
Limited Sources for Journal Articles and Citations:
- ADVANCE for LPN Online - An online journal for LPN's.
- American Medical Association -- AMA Journals.
- Australian Electronic Journal of Nursing Education -- Full text articles by a nursing school committed to enhancing the teaching learning experience across a variety of nurse contexts.
- CINAHL (Nursing) Database -- Provides indexing for over 2,700 current nursing and allied health journals and publications dating back to 1982, totaling over 1,000,000 records.
- Critical Care Nurse -- publication provides critical care and acute care nurses with accurate, relevant, and useful information concerning the bedside care of critically and acutely ill patients.
- FDA NEWS - Federal Drug Administration News.
- Free MEDLINE: PubMed provides access to over 15 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1950's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
- International Journal of Nursing in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities -- A free on-line Full Text Journal.
- MedlinePlus -- brings together authoritative information from NLM.
- Merck Manual - Home Edition.
- Midwifery Today -- Selected full text articles from the Journal.
- New England Journal of Medicine -- Full text of articles (1993 to present) in this prestigious publication.
- Nursing Times -- Clinical news, forums, report findings...
- Online Journal of Issues in Nursing -- A free, peer-reviewed, international, online publication that addresses pertinent topics affecting nursing practice, research, education and the wider health care sector.
Helpful Websites:
- Adirondack Medical Center -- Local, Saranac Lake hospital.
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality -- AHRQ Mission: To improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care.
- American Medical Association -- Information for Physicians and Patients.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- The lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people
- Clinical Trials -- Provides regularly updated information about federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers.
- EMTALA ACT -- Emergency Treatment and Active Labor Act, aka The Anti-Dumping Act. Links to multiple sources of information.
- Healthfinder -- a gateway consumer health and human services information web site.
- Health Technology Assessment Programme -- National Health Service (UK) -The purpose of the programme is to ensure that high quality research information on the costs, effectiveness and broader impact of health technologies is produced for those who use, manage and provide care.
- National Guideline Clearinghouse -- A public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
- New England Journal of Medicine -- Full text of articles.
- New York State Hospital Profiles -- number of beds, procedures performed, quality of care, etc
- New York State Official Website
- New York State Physician Profile -- Profiles for all licensed doctors of medicine and doctors of osteopathy who are registered to practice medicine in New York State.
- Northern NY HealthWeb -- sources of medical information.
- Nursing Center.com -- Information, products, and services for professionals and students. Some full-text journal articles, but usually not free.
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Created 2.2.2000 /rev 02.04.2009 by P.F. McIntyre. Revised 11.04.2009 by L.F. Larkin.
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