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Reviewed Resources:
1.Emergency Nursing World
Emergency Nursing World is intended to be the world's first comprehensive practice-based resource for emergency nurses and those in its allied professions. Site is the product of one man's commitment and passion, and it shows: the site is stuffed full of articles, links, and support useful to novice and expert alike.
Purpose: Learning, Reference.
Audience: Nurses.
Reference index:78
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://enw.org/TOC.htm
2.GSC Home Study Continuing Education for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals
GSC Home Study is a company that helps medical professionals brush up on their knowledge--or learn entirely new topics--from the comfort of their own homes. Company offers three-hour easy-to-learn lesson modules; over 50,000 satisfied healthcare professionals nationwide have taken the courses so far. Most courses are designed for the licensed professional to meet continuing education requirements for license renewal; the price of each course is around twenty dollars. Site is easy to navigate and fairly thorough.
Purpose: Learning.
Audience: Dentists, Nurses.
Reference index:12
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://gscce.com/
3.Communication Skills: Building Rapport and Trust
These lessons are designed to help nurses sharpen their communication skills in order to build more therapeutic relationships with their patients.
Purpose: Learning.
Audience: Nurses.
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.healthworks.co.uk/hw/HWOCDCat/nursing.html#CommunicationSkills
Order CD-ROM URL:http://www.healthworks.co.uk/hw/HWOCDCat/nursing.html#CommunicationSkills
4.Mosby's Comprehensive Review of Nursing CD-ROM
This multimedia review tool and study guide helps students prepare for the NCLEX-RN examination in the United States and the comprehensive licensure examination in Canada. It can alternately be use for reviews during course work.
Purpose: Learning.
Audience: Medical Students, Nurses.
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.healthworks.co.uk/hw/HWOCDCat/nursing.html#ComprehensiveReview
Order CD-ROM URL:http://www.healthworks.co.uk/hw/HWOCDCat/nursing.html#ComprehensiveReview
5.Mosby's Medical Surgical Nursing Viewstudy CD-ROM
This innovative nursing media product offers convenience, flexibility, and access to hundreds of images. It features more than 500 full-color illustrations and photos depicting key concepts of medical-surgical nursing.
Purpose: Learning.
Audience: Nurses.
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.healthworks.co.uk/hw/HWOCDCat/nursing.html#MOSBYSMEDICAL
Order CD-ROM URL:http://www.healthworks.co.uk/hw/HWOCDCat/nursing.html#MOSBYSMEDICAL
6.Medical CD-ROM Shop
Over 600 medical CD-ROM titles are for sale on this site. It includes a searchable database and main menu. For each title there is a small summary of the CD-ROM along with a price (in British pounds) and ordering information. Design and ease of navigation are both good.
Purpose: Reference, Simulation.
Audience: Dentists, Medical Doctors, Medical Students, Nurses.
Reference index:2
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.healthworks.co.uk/secure_shopping/index.asp
Order CD-ROM URL:http://www.netlink.co.uk/users/erol/cdshop.html
7.HeliosHealth
The experts at Helios Health are available to answer most frequently asked questions about health and health care. They disseminate their knowledge through animations, discussions, and email services. Topics addressed include allergies, asthma, heart health, birth control, prenatal and postnatal care, yeast infections, menopause, osteoporosis, PMS, and more. Complete information guides are provided for selected subjects.
Purpose: Learning.
Audience: Patients.
Reference index:1009
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.helioshealth.com/
8.HELIX
This is a healthcare education information site. Medical, nursing and pharmacy CME programs contain on-line real audio lectures and testes.
Purpose: Learning, Reference.
Audience: Medical Doctors, Nurses.
Reference index:1761
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.helix.com/
9.Holland Cross Psychological Services
A large database of psychology and self-help resources are available from this site in print, or by phone. Other services include counseling and psychotherapy for children, adolescents and adults, as well as professional resources for educators, psychologists and other mental health workers.
Purpose: Learning, Reference.
Audience: Medical Doctors, Nurses, Patients.
Reference index:81
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.hollandcrosspsych.com/
10.Homeopathy Home
This site links users to homeopathy web resources worldwide. It includes discussion forums, educational seminars, and references to relevant books, articles, and research information. Though most of site's content leads to other off-site resources, there is a very active bulletin board here as well as a selection of books for sale.
Purpose: Reference.
Audience: Medical Doctors, Nurses, Patients.
Reference index:1328
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.homeopathyhome.com/
11.International Council of Nurses
The International Council of Nurses is a federation of more than 120 national nurses' associations worldwide. Its mission is to ensure quality care, health policies globally and advance nursing knowledge. It offers standards, guidelines and policies for nursing practice, education, management, research and socio-economic welfare. The site is in English, French and Spanish.
Purpose: Reference.
Audience: Nurses.
Reference index:1357
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.icn.ch/
12.Virtual Conversations+
Virtual Conversations+ programs are multimedia educational applications that combine digital video and voice recognition technology (Dragon Systems½ VoiceTools) to allow the user to engage in a dialogue with a virtual human subject using spoken language.
Purpose: Simulation.
Audience: Medical Doctors, Nurses.
Reference index:2
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.idrama.com/VC_facts.htm
13.InfoPOEMs Inc.
The MedicalInfoRetriever service aims to make reliable, evidence-based information available to physicians at the point of care (either on PCs or handhelds). Site advertises this product along with offering a newsletter, a journal feature, software for Windows 95/98/NT and handheld computers. A virtual tour demonstrates the service to visitors, who can then purchase the company's products online.
Purpose: Learning, Reference.
Audience: Medical Doctors, Nurses.
Reference index:480
Price:90.0000
URL:http://www.infopoems.com/
14.Internurse: The World's online nursing library
Internurse is a British site aimed at professional nurses around the world. Home to more than 5000 peer-reviewed journal articles, Internurse is not just a collection of links; you'll also find news, intra-Britain relocation information, and a section for nursing students.
Purpose: Reference.
Audience: Nurses.
Reference index:727
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.internurse.com
15.Welcome to iNurse
iNurse is an excellent start page for searching the nursing information on Internet. It is made with very simply graphic and just several topics, but with excellent external links about nursing.
Purpose: Reference.
Audience: Nurses.
Reference index:331
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.inurse.com/
16.Internet Scientific Publications
This site provides a myriad of online journals related to anesthesiology, cardiovascular surgery, nursing practice, and emergency medicine. Read full-text articles at no cost, or browse the online bookstore. Note that many of the journals have histories of only one or two editions.
Purpose: Reference.
Audience: Medical Doctors, Nurses.
Reference index:12
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.ispub.com/index.htm
17.Inteli-Health Professional Network
Via the InteliHealth Professional Network, all healthcare professionals--physicians, nurses, pharmacists, administrators, and other members of the health professions--can easily access timely, relevant information about developments in their respective fields. Slickly designed site offers an e-mail newsletter service (separate ones for each speciality) as well as frequently updated news.
Purpose: Reference, Simulation.
Audience: Medical Doctors, Nurses.
Reference index:3
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://ipn.intelihealth.com/ipn/ihtIPN?t=7187&st=7187
18.Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology
The Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology aims to cover a full range of topics on the psychosocial and psychosomatic aspects of women¦s health and to encourage gynecologists to pay close attention to the psychological aspects of their work. Abstracts, editorials, letters to the editor, and more--all are found on this site, which sports a pleasant purple design. Full-text articles are not available online.
Purpose: Reference.
Audience: Medical Doctors, Nurses.
Reference index:71
Price:145.0000
URL:http://jpog.ispog.org/
19.The Student Nurse Forum
The Student Nurse Forum is an excellent site that delivers a list of nursing programs, study aids, job and salary information, message boards, and more. Some of the more interesting features are medical calculators, self tests, and the glossary of medical terms, prefixes, and suffixes. Site is run by a nursing student; esprit de corps abounds.
Purpose: Learning, Reference.
Audience: Medical Students, Nurses.
Reference index:112
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://kcsun3.tripod.com
20.Vision Science
Vision Science is an online resource that explores human and animal vision. It offers a virtual library of web resources, as well as information on research groups, institutes, universities, organizations, conferences and symposia, journals, and bibliographies. Job listings and positions for post-docs abound.
Purpose: Reference, Simulation.
Audience: Medical Doctors, Medical Students, Nurses.
Reference index:306
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.visionscience.com/VisionScience.html
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