Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH. Guide to nursing and healthcare sites on the Internet. Includes 50 content areas, summaries of each site, intended audience, sponsors, level of information, and relevance to nurses. Indicates sites for referral to patients. Previous edition: c2000. Softcover. DNLM: Internet--Resources Guides. Contents......Page 6 Contributors......Page 10 Introduction......Page 16 Guidelines for Browsing the Internet......Page 18 Part I. Professional Topics......Page 22 1. Professional Nursing Organizations......Page 24 2. Nursing Administration......Page 29 3. Managed Care and Case Management......Page 35 4. Evidence-Based Practice......Page 41 5. Culturally Competent Care......Page 48 6. Nursing Informatics......Page 54 7. Nursing Education......Page 60 8. Returning to School: Graduate School Resources......Page 67 9. Government Resources......Page 73 10. Health Policy......Page 80 11. Leadership......Page 87 12. Nursing Outcomes......Page 93 13. Research and Grant Resources......Page 101 14. Nursing Theory......Page 108 15. Nursing Classification Systems......Page 113 16. Careers in Nursing......Page 121 17. Nursing Job Sites......Page 128 18. Writing Resources......Page 134 19. Fundraising......Page 137 20. Economics and Financing of Health Care......Page 142 21. International Nursing Resources......Page 148 22. Online Journals......Page 153 23. Nursing Publishing Companies......Page 162 Part II. Clinical Topics......Page 170 24. General Health Care Resources......Page 172 25. Consumer Health Resources......Page 177 26. Pharmaceutical Resources......Page 190 27. Physical Assessment......Page 195 28. Clinical Decision Making......Page 202 29. Infants, Children, and Adolescents......Page 210 30. Women's Health......Page 216 31. Older Adults......Page 221 32. Nutrition......Page 227 33. Pain......Page 233 34. Mental Health......Page 240 35. Critical Care......Page 247 36. Emergency Care......Page 253 37. Community Health......Page 259 38. Advanced Practice......Page 265 39. Primary Care......Page 271 40. Palliative Care......Page 278 41. Diabetes......Page 284 42. Heart Disease......Page 291 43. Vascular Disease......Page 299 44. Respiratory Care......Page 305 45. Genetics......Page 311 46. HIV/AIDS......Page 316 47. Cancer......Page 324 48. Maternity......Page 331 49. Breastfeeding......Page 337 50. Complementary and Alternative Therapies......Page 343 51. Disaster Preparedness......Page 349 52. Bioterrorism......Page 355 Part III. Evaluation Information......Page 362 53. Web Sites with Evaluation Guidelines......Page 364 Appendix: Alphabetical Index of Web Sites......Page 370 A......Page 424 B......Page 426 C......Page 427 D......Page 430 F......Page 431 G......Page 432 H......Page 433 I......Page 434 L......Page 436 M......Page 437 N......Page 438 P......Page 440 S......Page 443 V......Page 444 Y......Page 445 Ch. 1. Professional nursing organizations Ch. 2. Nursing administration Ch. 3. Managed care and case management Ch. 4. Evidence-based practice Ch. 5. Culturally competent care Ch. 6. Nursing informatics Ch. 7. Nursing education Ch. 8. Returning to school: Graduate school resources Ch. 9. Government resources Ch. 10. Health policy Ch. 11. Leadership Ch. 12. Nursing outcomes Ch. 13. Research and grant resources Ch. 14. Nursing theory Ch. 15. Nursing classification systems Ch. 16. Careers in nursing Ch. 17. Nursing job sites Ch. 18. Writing resources Ch. 19. Fundraising Ch. 20. Economics and financing of health care Ch. 21. International nursing resources Ch. 22. Online journals Ch. 23. Nursing publishing companies Ch. 24. General health care resources Ch. 25. Consumer health resources Ch. 26. Pharmaceutical resources Ch. 27. Physical assessment Ch. 28. Clinical decision making Ch. 29. Infants, children, and adolescents Ch. 30. Women's health Ch. 31. Older adults Ch. 32. Nutrition Ch. 33. Pain Ch. 34. Mental health Ch. 35. Critical care Ch. 36. Emergency care Ch. 37. Community health Ch. 38. Advanced practice Ch. 39. Primary care Ch. 40. Palliative care Ch. 41. Diabetes Ch. 42. Heart disease Ch. 43. Vascular disease Ch. 44. Respiratory care Ch. 45. Genetics Ch. 46. HIV/AIDS Ch. 47. Cancer Ch. 48. Maternity Ch. 49. Breastfeeding Ch. 50. Complementary and alternative therapies Ch. 51. Disaster preparedness Ch. 52. Bioterrorism Ch. 53. Web sites with evaluation guidelines. This new edition of the award-winning guide to the web for nurses is nearly double in size and twice as useful! Expert nurses in more than 50 content areas have carefully selected and reviewed nearly 400 web sites available in their specialty areas -- resulting in an authoritative guide to the best the web has to offer for the professional nurse. Each web description includes a summary of the site, intended audience, sponsor, level of information, and relevance to nurses. The book also indicates sites which can be referred to patients.--Publisher's descritpion
This new edition of the award-winning guide to the web for nurses is nearly double in size and twice as useful! Expert nurses in more than 50 content areas have carefully selected and reviewed nearly 400 web sites available in their specialty areas --- resulting in an authoritative guide to the best the web has to offer for the professional nurse. Each web description includes a summary of the site, intended audience, sponsor, level of information, and relevance to nurses. The book also indicates sites which can be referred to patients.
Expert nurses in over 50 content areas have selected and reviewed nearly 400 web sites in their specialty areas in this award-winning guide to the web for nurses. Each web description includes a summary of the site, intended audience, sponsor, level of information, and relevance to nurses. It also indicates sites to be referred to patients. Professional nursing organizations serve as a framework for professional relationships, networking, and organization of members with similar goals and interests.
