HealthLinks: Web Sites of Interest to Ambulatory Care Nursing

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Web Sites of Interest to Ambulatory Care Nursing Search Engines
Search engines allow you to search through huge indexes of Web sites created by computer programs called robots or spiders and display results according to relevance.

AltaVista: http://www.altavista.com/
AllTheWeb (FAST): http://www.bos2.alltheweb.com/
Ask Jeeves: http://www.askjeeves.com/
Google: http://www.google.com/
Specialty Search Engines: http://searchenginewatch.com/links/specialty.html

Meta-Search Engines
Meta-search engines allow you to send searches to more than one search engine at a time.

MetaCrawler: http://www.metacrawler.com/
DogPile: http://www.dogpile.com/
WebCrawler: http://www.webcrawler.com/

Subject Directories
Subject directories allow you to search through structured hierarchies of Web sites created by human indexers.

Yahoo: http://www.yahoo.com/

Specialized Web Guides: Nursing

Allnurses.com: http://www.allnurses.com/
Categorized links to nursing news, medical web search tools, software reviews, CNE, drug resources, and nursing discussion lists.
CINAHLSources: http://www.cinahl.com/csources/csources.htm
Nursing-related links, including descriptions of each web site and links to its parent organization.
HealthWeb: Nursing: http://healthweb.org/
Excellent comprehensive index to career information, clinical nursing, listservs, electronic journals, resources related to nursing research, and links to nursing schools and organizations.
NursingCenter: http://www.nursingcenter.com/
One stop source for information, products and services related to nursing. Includes career center, journals, and continuing education.
Medscape Nurses: http://www.medscape.com/
Comprehensive site featuring journal articles, practice guidelines, CNE, treatment updates, news, conference summaries and patient resources. Free registration
Nursing Sites on the World Wide Web: http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/hsl/internet/nsgsites.html
Comprehensive site of annotated links in all areas of nursing from clinical specialties to schools of nursing, grant information and more.
Resources for Nurses and Families: http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~wink/home.html#TOP
Listing of over 150 sites on diverse topics concerning nursing, children and families.
Martindale's "Virtual" Nursing Center: http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/Nursing.html
Includes links to dictionaries, online nursing journals, tutorials and more.
Yahoo: Health: Nursing: http://dir.yahoo.com/Health/Nursing/
Categorized listing, also searchable by keyword.

Associations

American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing: http://aaacn.inurse.com/
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners: http://www.aanp.org/
American Nurses Association: http://www.nursingworld.org/
ANA information, credentialing, political action, news, and links to related sites.
Yahoo: Health: Nursing: Organizations: http://dir.yahoo.com/Health/Nursing/Organizations/

Databases

CANCERLIT: http://www.cancer.gov/cancer_information/cancer_literature/
National Cancer Institute's bibliographic database.
CHID Online: http://chid.nih.gov/
Combined Health Information Database (CHID), produced by health-related agencies of the federal government; a bibliographic database of health information and education resources.
GeneTests: http://www.geneclinics.org/
Provides current authoritative information on genetic testing and its use in the diagnosis, management, and counseling of individuals and families with inherited disorders.
HSTAT: http://text.nlm.nih.gov/
Access to full-text documents useful in health care decision-making.
NLM Gateway: http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd
Allows searches in multiple National Libraries of Medicine databases, i.e. PubMed, MEDLINEplus, DIRLINE, etc.
OMIM: http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Omim/
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man; a database of human genes and genetic disorders; contains text, pictures and reference information.
PubMed: http://pubmed.gov/
Access to MEDLINE, and other health-related databases, with links to participating online journals and other related databases.

Drug Information

CDER (Center for Drug Evaluation and Research: http://www.fda.gov/cder/
Includes the Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalents Evaluations/OrangeBook and New and Generic Drug Approvals.
DrugInfoNet: http://www.druginfonet.com/
Includes official package inserts and patient package insert information on pharmaceuticals.
Drugstore.com: http://www.drugstore.com/
ePocrates: http://www.epocrates.com/
Drug monographs for the most prescribed medicines for handhelds. Free download after registration.
HerbMed: http://www.herbmed.org/
An interactive electronic herbal database providing links to information on various medicinal plants, including research studies, interactions, cultivation and photographs.
Listing of Newly Approved Drug Therapies: http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/drugs/druglist.html
MEDLINEplus: Drug Information: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html
A guide to more than 9,000 prescription and over-the-counter medications provided by USP DI Advice for the Patient and MedMaster.
MerckMedicus: http://www.merckmedicus.com/
Free registration for MDs and NPs. Includes Mosby's Drug Consult, the Physicians Desk Reference (PDR), and PDR Drug Interaction.
PDR.net: http://www.pdr.net/
Free access to the Physicians Desk Reference and drug interactions for MD's and NP's in fulltime patient care practice. Free registration required.
PillBot.com: http://www.pillbot.com/
Prescription comparison shopping guide.
RxList: The Internet Drug Index: http://www.rxlist.com/
Contains information on more than 4,000 U.S. products; searchable by both brand and generic drug names. Includes Top 200 list and a Tablet/Capsule Imprint Code.
TCM HerbLibrary: http://www.rmhiherbal.org/ai/pharintro.html
Free registration

Evidence-Based Medicine and Guidelines

Clinical Practice Guidelines (AHRQ): http://www.ahcpr.gov/clinic/cpgonline.htm
Full and brief practice guidelines and guidelines for the healthcare professional and the consumer (in English and Spanish) from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
National Guideline Clearinghouse: http://www.guideline.gov/
A public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
PubMed Clinical Queries using Research Methodology Filters or Systematic Reviews: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/clinical.html
TRIP Database: http://www.tripdatabase.com/
Includes links to evidence-based medicine, systematic reviews and clinical guidelines.

Government Sites

CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov/
Provides travelers' health information, vaccination, prevention guidelines, publications, MMWR, statistics.
ClinicalTrials.gov: http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui
Provides patients, family members and members of the public current information about clinical research studies.
Food and Drug Administration: http://www.fda.gov/
National Institutes of Health: http://www.nih.gov/
National Library of Medicine: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
Information from the world's premier health library including links to databases such as MEDLINE, genetic sequence databanks, and toxicology files.

Journals

AJN; American Journal of Nursing: http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/
Tables of contents and abstracts for 30 journals including AJN, MCN, Cancer Nursing, and Journal of Ambulatory Care Management.
MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/
NEJM: New England Journal of Medicine: http://www.nejm.org/
Nurse-zine: http://allnurses.com/Nurse-zine/
Free monthly nursing e-mail newsletter.
Online Journal of Issues in Nursing: http://www.nursingworld.org/ojin/
A peer-reviewed electronic journal providing free forum for discussion of nuring issues.
Online Journal of Knowledge Synthesis for Nursing: http://www.stti.iupui.edu/library/ojksn/
(subscription)

News

CNN Health: http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/
New York Times: Health: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/health/
USA Today Health: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/healthdigest.htm
Yahoo! News: http://news.yahoo.com/

Northwest Sites

Culture Clues: http://depts.washington.edu/pfes/cultureclues.html
African-American, Albanian, Chinese, Korean, Latino, Russian and Vietnamese
EthnoMed: http://ethnomed.org/
A cross-cultural medicine database containing information about cultural beliefs and medical issues pertinent to healthcare of recent immigrants in the Northwest.
HealthLinks: University of Washington Health Sciences Center: http://healthlinks.washington.edu/
Includes a Care Provider Toolkit and a Nurse Toolkit.
Public Health: Seattle & King County : http://www.metrokc.gov/health/
University of Washington School of Nursing: http://www.son.washington.edu/
Washington State Department of Health: http://www.doh.wa.gov/

Patient Information

drkoop.com: http://www.drkoop.com/
HealthFinder: http://www.healthfinder.gov/
U.S. government gateway to reliable consumer health information web sites, online publications, associations,government agencies, etc.
HealthLinks Patient Toolkit: http://healthlinks.washington.edu/toolkits/patient.html
University of Washington links to patient education sources.
KidsHealth: http://www.kidshealth.org/
Wide range of health and parenting material, including reviews of toys and games.
MEDLINEplus Health Information: http://medlineplus.gov/
Provides consumer health materials and links, chosen and reviewed for quality by the National Library of Medicine.
NetWellness: http://www.netwellness.org/
NIH Health Information: http://health.nih.gov/
Provides access to consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health
NOAH: New York Online Access to Health: http://www.noah-health.org/
Includes English and Spanish high quality, full-text information for consumers
NORD: National Organization for Rare Disorders: http://www.rarediseases.org/

Texts

Guide to Clinical Preventive Services: http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov/pubs/guidecps/
Provides the latest recommendations on preventive interventions for more than 80 conditions.
Merck Manual of Geriatrics: http://www.merck.com/pubs/mm_geriatrics/
Merck Manual of Medical Information: http://www.merckhomeedition.com/
Includes both an interactive and text version of the home edition.
University of Iowa Family Practice Handbook: http://www.vh.org/adult/provider/familymedicine/FPHandbook/FPContents.html

Other Interesting Web Sites

CliniWeb International: http://www.ohsu.edu/cliniweb/
An index to clinical information on the Web using MeSH vocabulary.
Navigating the Web: Using Search Tools and Evaluating Resources: http://healthlinks.washington.edu/help/navigating/
Oncolink: http://www.oncolink.org/
An excellent multimedia oncology information resource.
Virtual Hospital: http://www.vh.org/
Digital library of health information for healthcare professionals and patients, including multimedia textbooks. teaching files, clinical guidelines, and physician-reviewed sites on common medical conditions.

Last Updated: March 10, 2003

Janet G. Schnall, MS, AHIP
Information Management Librarian
(206) 543-7774
schnall@u.washington.edu
http://healthlinks.washington.edu/hsl/liaisons/schnall/