Nursing: Recommended Web Sites

"Mentors the professional development of future nurses and facilitates their entrance into the profession by providing educational resources, leadership opportunities, and career guidance."

"The national voice for America's nursing education programs by providing educational, research, governmental advocacy, data collection, publications, and other programs."

An organization whose mission is to "provide networking, education and information resources that enrich and strengthen the roles of nurses in the field of informatics" through educational opportunities, conferences, and other resources.

"A unified force advocating for equity and justice in nursing and health care for ethnic minority populations."

"Dedicated to improving the health and health care of Americans through the funding of nursing research and research training."

"Promotes excellence in nursing education to build a strong and diverse nursing workforce."

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A free, peer-reviewed, international, online publication, indexed by both Medline and CINAHL, that addresses pertinent topics affecting nursing practice, research, education and the wider health care sector.

"An online community dedicated to providing nurses with professional and personal development information and opportunities." Includes nursing news and events, links to blogs and videos, and education and career development resources.

"Designed to help you, as a patient or family caregiver, to better understand the many clinical lab tests that are part of routine care as well as diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of conditions and diseases."

85 NCLEX practice questions with rationale.

An online collection of videos created specifically for the education and training of nurses, nursing assistants, and other healthcare workers.

"Offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to Center for Disease Control's pictures organized into hierarchical categories of people, places, and science, and is presented as single images, image sets, and multimedia files."

"Provides free digital resources of the highest quality that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators." These resources include images, videos, animation, exercises, lectures, and tutorials."

"Displays a wide array of images available to the media to reprint. These photos may be used free of charge, with prior permission from Health Canada, only to promote healthy lifestyles and for non-commercial purposes."

"Complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies."