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 Nursing 3804
Professional Roles and Dimensions of Nursing Practice

Recommended Web Sites    |     Nurse Theorists

Unit 1

1. Online Journal Of Nursing --Articles on Entry Into Practice located in Online Nursing Journal and other topics.

2. Brownson's Nursing Notes - Historical nursing information. Not all links active. Personal web site.

3. American Journal of Nursing - Official journal of the American Nurses Association.  Includes historical events and nursing leaders.

Unit 2

1. http://www.nursingworld.org  - This is the official web site of the American Nurse's Association (ANA).  From this site you can link to various sites for ANA, to multiple Federal Government sites, to specialty nurse's associations sites, etc.

2. http://www.nln.org - This is the official web site of the National League for Nursing.

3. http://www.icn.ch - This is the official web site of the International Council of Nurses.

4. http://www.floridanurse.org - This is the official web site of the Florida Nurse's Association.  Like the ANA web site, multiple links are found here including links to specialty nurse's associations and to Florida Government sites.

5.  Specialties Nursing Organizations

6. http://www9.myflorida.com/mqa/  -  This is the web site for accessing the Florida Board of Nursing.  The web site has changed from the one published in your textbook.  Also, the address has changed since the Board of Nursing headquarters moved from Jacksonville to Tallahassee in January of 2002.

Additional professional specialty nursing organization. one that represents your area or your membership.

Unit 3

1. http://www.nursingworld.org/rnnoharm - This environmental web page of the American Nurses Association provides ANA information as well as links to other sources

2. http://www.noharm.org - Health Care Without Harm.

3. http://www.health.gov/healthypeople -- This web site for Healthy People 2000 has numerous links to related areas and topics.

4. http://www.florences-nightengale.co.uk/ This is the Florence Nightingale Museum web site.

5. http://www.clendening.kumc.edu/dc/fn.  University of Kentucky website devoted to Florence Nightingale and links to similar.

6. http://www.healthfinder.gov -- This U.S. Department of Health and   Human Services' Health Finder has links to multiple sources and sites as well as a space for entering a search topic

7. http://www.who.int  -- The World Health Organization has multiple sources for selection on the home page.  To search for a particular base of the home page and click on Search WHO.

8.  http://www.sandiego.edu/nursing/theory - This web site is devoted to Parse's Theory of Human Becoming

9.  http://www2.bc.edu/%7Eroyca/  --Sr. Callista Roy's web site.

10.  http://www.ualberta.ca/~jrnorris/nt/theory.html  --  A nursing theory web site has links to various other sites related to nursing theorists.  Some of the links work and some do not.  One is quite interesting with a video of interviews with the theorist.  The ability to view the videos will depend on the capability of your computer.

11. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus  - Medline.

12. http://www4.od.nih.gov/orwh/inclusion.html   -- National Institute of Health's Policy on Inclusion of Women in Research

13. http://www.nih.gov/ninr  -- This web site for the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) has a great deal of information.  It also traces the history of the NINR from being a Center for Nursing Research to a National Institute.  

14. http://www.drugabuse.gov -- National Institute on Drug Abuse.  It includes information for students and young adults, parents and teachers, and researchers and health professionals.

  Unit 4

1.  http://www.nccam.nih.gov - This is the web site for the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

2. http://www.jcaho.org - This is the web site for the Joint Commission on  
Accreditation of Health Care Organizations.

3. http://www.nurseweek.com - This is the web site for the Nurse Week Online Journal.  It provides information on nursing careers, education, news, as well as clinical information.

4. http://www.WebMD.com - This website presents medical information, research, and educational services as well as physician practice management services.

5. http://www.floridanurse.org/ - Official website for Florida Nurse Association.

6. http://www.mayoclinic.com - This May Clinic website provides information on healthy living, medications, etc

7. http://www.cmsa.org - This is the web site for the Case Management Society of America.  It provides resource information and links to other sites.

8. http://www.familiesusa.org/site/PageServer- Touted as the voice for Health Care Consumers, this web site offers a considerable amount of information on health care topics including managed care.

 9. http://www.nursingworld.org - This web site for the American Nurses Association provides links to ANA's legislative branch, to state nurses associations, and to the Online Journal of Issues in Nursing. 

10. http://www.familiesusa.org - Touted as the voice for Health Care Consumers, this web site offers a considerable amount of information on health care topics including managed care.

11. http://www.childrenshealthmatters.org - This website is dedicated to helping eligible children get health insurance.  It provides links to multiple sites including Medicaid sites for each state.

12. http://cms.hhs.gov/schip - This Federal Government website provides multiple links to children's health insurance programs.

13. http://www.themcic.com - This managed care information center is designed for health care executives.  It contains links to a variety of sources.

14. http://www.medicare.gov - This web site provides a great deal of information on the Medicare health plan.

15. http://www.cms.hhs.gov - This former Health Care Financing Administration site (HCFA) has been changed to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).  Multiple links to programs are found at this site.

16. http://www.medicarehmo.com/mcmnu.htm - This web site provides information on Medicare HMOs and provides managed care fact sheets.

17. http://www.allhealth.org - The Alliance for Health Reform web site provides information on health policy options facing the nation.

18. http://www.healtheconomics.com - This web site provides a professional guide to health economics, and medical and pharmacy resources on the Internet.  Not all links are current.

19. http://www.familydoctor.org/handouts/ - The American Academy of Family Physicians provides this site containing health information for the whole family.

20. http://www.dredf.org/ - This site was founded by people with disabilities and provides information important to people with disabilities. Included is a link to the Department of Justice's ADA page.

21. http://www.ajj.com/services/pblshng/nej/default.htm - This is the site for the journal, Nursing Economics. It provides links to web sites related to nursing

22. http://www.wemedia.com - This site provides information and deals with issues important to people with disabilities.

23. http://www.ajj.com - This is the site for the journal, Nursing Economics.  It provides links to web sites related to nursing.

24. http://www.epolitics.com - This is a search engine for political issues.  It provides links to various web sites.  They also sell a service.

25. http://www.healthfinder.gov/ - A federal government website and guide to reliable health information from US Dept. of Health & Human Services, including Health Care Providers, etc.

26. http://www.politicalindex.com - The stated purpose of this web site is to provide one stop shopping for substantive political information.  Many links are provided.

27. http://www.politics1.com - This is a comprehensive online guide to American politics.  Multiple links are provided.

28. http://www.politicsonline.com - This site provides fundraising and internet tools for politics.  Multiple links are provided.

29. http://www.votenet.com - This site develops, markets, and supports various solutions with a focus on public policy, political, and nonprofit organizations.  It provides viewers with information on their congressional representative and senators with a mechanism to write them.  Further it provides for online voter registration.

30. http://www.medwebplus.com - This site provides a free service to help find health science information quickly and easily.  Multiple links are available.

31. http://www.dhhs.gov - This U. S. Department of Health and Human Services provides links to HHS agencies as well as entertaining and educational links for children..

32. http://movingideas.org - This is the website for The Policy Action Network.  It provides links to health policy information.

33. http://hippo.findlaw.com - This Health Hippo website provides multiple links for resources for health policy issues.

34. http://thomas.loc.gov - This website, referred to as The U.S. Congress on the Internet, is the Thomas Library of Congress website for legislative information and links to members of congress.

 

Unit 5

http://www.nursingworld.org  - Can be read but has been posted in such a manner that it cannot be copied from the website.

www.icn.ch-  code of ethics for nurses on the International Council of Nurses web site

1. http://www.aclu.org/privacy - This portion of the American Civil Liberties Union web site deals with privacy issues.

2. http://www.med.upenn.edu/bioethic/index.shtml - This is the web site for the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. It offers multiple resource links including Bioethics on NBC's ER. (Note: upenn, not upem)

3.  http://www.findlaw.com - This legal resource provides a space to enter a search for the topic of interest by the site visitor as well as other sources of information.

4.  http://www.consumer.gov/idtheft - This government web site offers information about identity theft as well as an ID Theft Affidavit.

5. http://www.amia.org - This website for the American Medical Informatics Association provides information and links dedicated to advancing health care through information technology.

6. http://www.ania.org - This website for the American Nursing Informatics Association provides information and links to other resources.

7. www.nurseadvocate.org - this website has been discontinued.

8. http://www.nurseadvocate.org - A nurse who recognized the types of abuse that nurses may experience started this web site.  This occurred after she experienced abuse in the hospital where she was employed.  Information on multiple subjects is available.

 9. http://www.aanp.org - This American Academy of Nurse Practitioners website offers multiple links re: legislation, certification, etc.

10. http://www/cms.hhs.gov - This former Health Care Financing Administration site (HCFA) has been changed to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).  Multiple links to programs are found at this site.

11. http://www.ncsbn.org/ - The National council of State Boards of Nursing provides information as well as links to boards of nursing in each state.

12. http://www.epic.org/privacy/consumer/states.html - Considerable information is found here regarding the topic of privacy that will be useful to you personally as well as in your role as a nurse. (No longer privacy.net.)

13. http://www.asbh.org/ - This website for the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities provides multiple resource links.

14. http://www.nursingworld.org/ethics/ - This is a direct link to the American Nurses Association Ethics and Human Rights section of their web site.  Select other aspects of this website for information related to the legal aspects of nursing.

15. http://www.ethics.asbh.org - This website for the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities provides multiple resource links.

16. http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/resources/biomed/ - This website for Biomedical and Health Care Resources provides scenarios for discussion as well as links to other resources.

17. http://www.bsvinc.com/ - This website for Bioethical Services of Virginia, Inc. provides information, sells services, and provides links to other resources.

18.http://stanford.edu/dept/scbe - This Center for Bioethics at Stanford University provides multiple links to other resources.

 19. http://www.partnershipforcaring.org - This website for Partnership for Caring: America's Voice for Dying provides information, links to other sites, and forms for advance directives.

20. http://www.icn.ch/index.html - This is the direct link to the International Council of Nurses Code of Ethics.

21. http://www.med.jhu.edu/bioethics_institute - This John's Hopkins University Bioethics Institute website provides information and links to other sites.

22. http://www.nursingethicsnetwork.org - The Nursing Ethics Network serves as an ethics resource for nurses.  The site provides research information, reports, and links to other sites.

23. http://wings.buffalo.edu/faculty/research/bioethics/index.html - This University of Buffalo Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care website provides multiple links to other sites.

24. http://healthleaders.com/news/ - News such as new HIPPA Privacy Rule, etc.

 

Unit 6 and Other Useful websites

1. http://www.nursingworld.org - This is the American Nurses Association website that also offers a link to the Online Journal of Nursing

2. http://www.members.tripod.com/~diannebrownson/ - The Brownson's Nursing Notes website offers a wealth of information.

3. http://www.nln.org - This is the website for the National League for Nursing

4. http://www.wfs.org - This is the website for the World Future Society. Their journal, The Futurist, is concerned with the future; the articles can be thought provoking.

5. http://www.alternativemedicine.com/ - This alternative medicine website presents wellness information and advertisements.  (No longer wellweb.)

6. http://www.tcns.org - This is the website for the Transcultural Nursing Society.  Information on Dr. Madeleine Leininger is also located at this site.

7. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/emergplan/index.htm - This U. S. Center for Disease Control website addresses Emerging Infectious Diseases: A Strategy for the 21st Century.  Included are videos along with other information.  Ability to play the video depends on the capabilities of your computer.

8. http://www.osha.gov - This is the U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration website.

9. http://telehealth.hrsa.gov - is the U.S. Government telehealth website and

10. http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/violcont.html - This is the U.S. Center for Disease Control website that address violence in the workplace.

11. http://www.nursingworld.org/dlwa/osh/wp5.htm

12. http://www.nurseadvocate.org - A nurse who recognized the types of abuse that nurses may experience started this web site.  This occurred after she experienced abuse in the hospital where she was employed.  Information on multiple subjects is available.

http://www.nursingworld.org/readroom/tele2.htm is the link to the ANA website on telehealth.  Both provide information on telehealth and telemedicine.

 

 

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