Nursing & Allied Health

This collection of web sites has been created to help you manage your time online while sometimes saving you valuable time during the research process. These categorized links provide nurse clinicians and allied healthcare professionals with some of the most timely, comprehensive and relevant clinical information to improve patient care.

We aim to make the clinician's task of information gathering simpler, more fruitful, and less time-consuming as we provide educational tools you may need to stay current in your professions.

Check back often for new and updated resources which will be denoted by our "new" sign.

To begin the process choose a category listed below and click on it. Then find a resource that best fits your requirements. Click on that link and you will be taken to that site which will open in a separate window. When finished at that website, simply close that window and you will be back where you began!

• General Nursing Sites
• Evidence Based Nursing
• Nursing CEU
• Nursing Textbooks
• Nursing and Allied Health Databases
• Nursing and Technology
• Nutrition
• Nutrition Textbooks
• Occupational Therapy
• Online Journals / Newsletters for Nursing and Allied Health
• Pharmacy
• Pharmacy CE
• Pharmacy Journals / Newsletters / News
• Pharmacy Textbooks
• Physical Therapy
• Physician Assistant
• Social Work
• Speech-Language Pathology
• Patient Information Handouts
• Patient Safety Information
• Medical Terminology / Coding / Transcription

Information Literacy for Evidence-Based Nursing Practice
(from Western Connecticut State University)
Medscape Nurses free registration required
RN Web
Resources for Nurses and Families

EBP: Evidence-Based Practice
(from the University of Washington)
Evidence Based Nursing
(from the University of North Carolina)
Resources for Evidence-Based Nursing
(from McMaster University)
Understanding Medical Information (Evidence-based Medicine)

InfoTrac's Nursing & Allied Health Collection contact library staff for offsite access
Provides full-text coverage of many of the titles cited in CINAHL.
Lippincott's Nursing Procedures and Skills
Find detailed descriptions of procedures in a program that allows users to identify the needed procedure quickly and easily. Nurses can scroll through an alphabetical list, browse by nursing or clinical category, or perform a search to identify a particular procedure.
Medications and Mothers' Milk | access available only when on the SHS Intranet
The information contained in this database is intended to supplement the knowledge of health care professionals regarding drug use during lactation.
Nursing Resources: A Self-Paced Tutorial and Refresher
An instructional tool for online resources.
PubMed Online Training
TRIP Database: The Search Engine for Evidence-Based Medicine
Try This:® Best Practices in Nursing Care to Older Adults
The John A. Hartford Foundation-funded project created this web-based resource including demonstration videos, and a corresponding print series featured in the Lippincott's Nursing Center. Locate the specific article from this series there, you can then find it in AJN via Ovid

Easy Auscultation "new"
The heart and lung sound reference guides provide quick access to over 150 real and simulated auscultations with most available FREE!
Interactive Atlas of Thoracic Viscera
Provided by the Digital Anatomist Project, Dept. Biological Structure, the University of Washington.
Heart and Lung Sounds
Listen and learn to distinguish the differences between the normal and abnormal heart sound from Littman Stethescopes (all that is needed is a multimedia player)
medi/Lexicon's Medical Dictionary
medi/Lexicon provides many methods to lookup a word in Stedman's Medical Dictionary. An extra feature they have added is fuzzy logic search that uses Google's search engine to provide alternative variations on your search.
Merriam Webster Medical Dictionary; 2012
Practical Clinical Skills
The simulation-based training modules include lessons on heart sounds, murmurs, lung sounds, carotid bruit, blood pressure assessment and EKGs. Try the mobile versions, as well.

Epocrates
Johns Hopkins ABX Guide
All handheld and mobile devices are supported in using this "decision support tool" providing clinicians with concise, timely information about the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases especially at the point of care.
Medical Calculators
70+ medical calculators from Tucows the freeware and shareware web site!
Mobile MerckMedicus
Download and use an integrated set of useful medical resources for your PDA.

AACE Inpatient Glycemic Control Resource Center
The AACE Inpatient Glycemic Control Resource Center is an educational tool from the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) that can be used to inform, educate, empower, and assist different members of the healthcare team.
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics | formerly the American Dietetic Association

For the Health Professionals

For the Public

For Students

Resources in Other Languages

ADA Clinical Practice Guidelines 2012

Download or Search the Clinical Practice Guidelines here

ChooseMyPlate Food Guidance System
ChooseMyPlate Plan helps you choose the foods and amounts that are right for you. For a quick estimate of what and how much you need to eat use the ChooseMyPlate box. More detailed food assessments can be found by using ChooseMyPlate SuperTracker. Here is information specifically for nutrition professionals which also has some available at the ChooseMyPlate Daily Food Plans website.
The Fast Food Explorer
Glycemic Index and GI Database
The Glycemic Index by David Mendosa
International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) Database
Nutrition Analysis Tools 2.0
From the Food Science and Human Nutrition Department at the University of Illinois
Nutrition Source
Produced by the Harvard School of Public Health,
USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference

Clinical Practice Recommendations 2012   "new"
American Diabetes Association presents their clinical practice recommendations in their entirety as published each year in January. Click on the year to find the previously published clinical practice recommendations for 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, and 1996 versions here.
Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010 "new"
Since 1980, the Guidelines have been jointly issued and updated every 5 years by the Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Health and Human Services (HHS). Click here for the previous Dietary Guidelines.
Dietary Reference Intakes: Applications in Dietary Planning (2003)
Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance (2005)

CUErgo: Cornell University Ergonomics Web "new"
CUErgo presents information from research studies and departmental projects focusing on ways to enhance usability by improving the ergonomics to enhance people's comfort, performance and health especially in the workplace.
e-Hand: The Electronic Textbook of Hand Surgery
OTPlan
This site matches the skills you want to work on, with the materials you have, to a detailed treatment activity that will help you strengthen certain skills.
OTseeker
This is a database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials relevant to occupational therapy.
PoinTIS - Point of Care, Team-based Information System
This site provides comprehensive information on spinal cord injury rehabilitation and traumatic brain injury rehabilitation.

The Annals of Long-Term Care
Cath Lab Digest
Clinical Geriatrics
EP Lab Digest
The Internet Journal of Advanced Nursing Practice
Johns Hopkins Nursing Nursing Times
Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care "new"
Ostomy Wound Management
Provider
Today's Wound Clinic
World Wide Wounds
Wounds

Drug Digest
Drugs.com
FDA Drugs "new"

Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations

DailyMed

Drugs@FDA
GlobalRPh.com
InPharm
Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)
Lexicomp Online
Available only to staff of Samaritan Health Services.
Monthly Prescribing Reference (MPR)
NeedyMeds
RxList - The Internet Drug Index
Virtual Pharmacy Center

Drug Topics
Formulary
Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy
Pharmacy Today "new"
PharmaLive
U.S. Pharmacist

Electronic Orange Book: Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations
Medical Abbreviations Dictionary

Hosford Muscle Tables
Hypermuscle: Muscles in Action
PEDro: Physiotherapy Evidence Database
PT Central
Physicial Therapy [free full text after 1 year]
Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection contact library staff for offsite access
Physiopedia "new"
Think Wikipedia for physiotherapists with the content of Physiopedia being driven by experts and representing an evidence-based approach to patient care which is collaboratively edited.
Rehabmanual.com
The portal covers rehab topics of interest for physiatrists, orthopedic & spine surgeons, and pain physicians. Use the search engine to search more than 400 rehab topics.
(Virtual) Sports Injury Clinic
You will find information on over 100 sports injuries. Get started by clicking on the image to the right or select from the links to the left or directly below.

Advance for NPs & PAs
FREE Registration recommended.
APCToday (Advanced Practice Clinicians Today)
FREE Registration required for back issues.
JAAPA: Journal of the American Academy of Physicians Assistants
The Internet Journal of Academic Physician Assistants

The Caregiver's Handbook
COMBI: Center for Outcome Measurement in Brain Injury
ProQolid
A large guide list to free Internet resource instruments for Quality of Life Assessment in Medicine from MAPI Research Institute.
Stroke Scales & Tools
Tools for Clinical Materials
A tool is a document, spreadsheet or other file that you may download and use in your quality improvement work. These tools support the actions to be taken to achieve success with a particular strategy.

Audiology Awareness Campaign
Dysphagia Resource Center
Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) Start Page
The Stuttering Homepage

AAFP 's familydoctor.org
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Public Information
American Congress of Obstetricians & Gynecologists Patient Education Pamphlets
You will find a large collection of patient education pamphlets in both English and Spanish ready for printing.
Facts for Families
From the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
Health Information Handouts - Listed by Topics
Produced by the McKinley Health Center of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Heart and Stroke Encyclopedia
JAMA Patient Page
Find over 460 different topics with a new one each week.
Multilingual / Multicultural Health Brochures, Translation Tools, and Information Resources
Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Articles for Patients
From Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Department of the University of Washington
Society of Thoracic Surgeons Patient Information
UpToDate for Patients
Learn more about a diagnosis, treatment options presented, or a medical condition. All this to help you make informed decisions as you work with your healthcare provider.

AHRQ Patient Safety Network (PSNet)
AHRQ Patient Safety Tools: Improving Safety at the Point of Care (Toolkits by Setting Type) "new"
AHRQ WebM&M: Morbidity and Mortality Rounds Patient Safety Web Journal
ASHP Resource Center on Patient Safety
MED-E.R.R.S.com
ON THE CUSP: Stop HAI
Patient Safety Fact Sheets from the Joint Commission
Patient Safety Resource Center from the National Patient Safety Foundation
RID: Reduce Infection Deaths

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ICD-10 Web site
ICD-10 codes must be used on all HIPAA transactions, including outpatient claims with dates of service, and inpatient claims with dates of discharge on and after October 1, 2013. Select the links to the left on the homepage to access CMS' ICD-10 and Version 5010 transition resources for your industry segment.
e-MDs ICD-9 Coding Search
ICD-10-CM-/PCS Myths & Facts Sheet
This fact sheet from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services summarizes structural differences between the two coding systems, and explains how organizations and facilities should be planning for the change.
ICD10Data.com "new"
ICD10Data.com takes the ICD-10 coding book and adds over 4.2 million cross references between codes to make finding what you need fast and easy. Here you will find the •2012 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes, •2012 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes-Index, and a tool to •Convert between ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM codes.
Medical Terminology Web
Practical Skill Building for the ICD-10 Coder
This series of quizzes is designed to test your knowledge and provide you with basic, intermediate and advance skill building exercises in the application of ICD-10.
Understanding Medical Words: A Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine
This tutorial from the National Library of Medicine teaches you about medical words, how to put together parts of medical words, along with quizzes to see what you've learned. Please note that you will need the Flash Player to view the programs.
Transcriptionist Reference Shelf "new"
This organized list of resources has been created for Transcriptionists whether working at home or within a hospital. New links will be added regularly.