Resources for Nursing Professional Organizations and related web sites American Academy of Nurse Practitioners American Academy of Nursing American Association of Colleges of Nursing American College of Nurse Practitioners Midwest Nursing Research Society National League of Nursing National Student Nurses' Association NLN employment listings & opportunities Sigma Theta Tau International Journals American Journal of Nursing  Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America Geriatric Nursing JOGNN: Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing Journal of Neuroscience Nursing Journal of Nursing Administration : JONA Journal of Pediatric Nursing MCN: the American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing Medsurg Nursing Nursing Diagnosis Nurse Practitioner Nursing Nursing Administration Quarterly Nursing Outlook Government Web Sites National Institute of Health  (enter "nursing" in search box) Contains links to health information, statistics, current news, NIH offices, and numerous full-text government documents.   Nebraska Health & Human Services System (NHHSS) Has information on jobs, programs, and licensing related to health care.  Nebraska@Online Assembles links to all 50 state government web pages. Helpful for locating state licensing, rules, regulations, laws, and departments or agencies. Databases CINAHL (WebSPIRS access) Primary index for nursing journals and resources.   e-Medicine Comprehensive full-text medical information. MEDLINE (WebSPIRS access) Main index for journals in the biomedical area including medicine and nursing. MEDLINE (PubMed access) National Library of Medicine’s free search engine for searching Medline. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCOHost) Indexes articles from nursing, medicine, and health care.  A number of titles have full-text available. Micromedex Comprehensive database for drug information.   Reference Works Cecil Textbook of Medicine RES WB100 C3888 (older edition in stacks) Fundamental of Nursing RES WY100 P868F (older edition in stacks) Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy REF WB100 M555 (older edition in stacks & electronic version available under "Electronic Books" on the HSL web page) Mosby's Nursing Drug Handbook  REF QV39 S62M (older edition in stacks) Widmann's Clinical Interpretation of Laboratory Tests REF QY 4 S1212w Related web sites Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Current information on health topics and statistics, including MMWR. Hardin MD: Nurse & Nursing Resources Contains a number of links to nursing resources for a wide array of topics, such as, practice guidelines, conferences,  health HQ Provides access to consumer information on support and self-help groups in Eastern Nebraska. Medscape Nurses Variety of links for current information for the health care professionals including a section for nursing. NIH Health Information Index Large database of information on health related topics for the health professional and the public. National Library of Medicine Medlineplus - Full-text database of consumer health information NLM Gateway - Search engine that indexes many of the NLM's databases and information on books, journal articles, meeting abstracts, and consumer health. Univ. of Michigan's Web Page for Citation Information Resources Lists citation resources available on the web.

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