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!
Resource Categories
General Nursing Sites
Information Literacy for Evidence-Based Nursing Practice
(from Western Connecticut State University)
Medscape Nurses free registration required
RN Web
Resources for Nurses and Families
Evidence Based Nursing
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)
Nursing CEU <--- click on the link to the left
Nursing and Allied Health Databases
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.
TRIP Database: The Search Engine for Evidence-Based Medicine
Nursing Resources: A Self-Paced Tutorial and Refresher
An instructional tool for online resources.
PubMed Online Training
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
Nursing Textbooks (click here for our collection of Online Textbooks in Nursing from STAT-Ref!)
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; 2009
Nursing and Technology
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
20+ medical calculators from Tucows the freeware and shareware web site!
Nursing PDAs Listserv
An open and unmediated email discussion on the use of PDAs in nursing. Just subscribe (sign up) then log on.
Mobile MerckMedicus
Download and use an integrated set of useful medical resources for your PDA.
Nutrition
American Dietetic Assocuiation (ADA)
Nutrition fact Sheets
Choose Your Foods: Exchange Lists for Diabetes, 2007
Food & Nutrition Information for Consumers
Spanish Language Handouts
ADA Clinical Practice Guidelines 2008
Download or Search the Clinical Practice Guidelines here
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
Nutrition Textbooks
Dietary Reference Intakes: Applications in Dietary Planning (2003)
Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance (2005)
Occupational Therapy
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.
Online Journals / Newsletters for Nursing and Allied Health
The Annals of Long-Term Care
Cath Lab Digest
Clinical Geriatrics
EP Lab Digest
The Internet Journal of Advanced Nursing Practice
Johns Hopkins Nursing "new"
Nursing Times
Ostomy Wound Management
Provider
Today's Wound Clinic
World Wide Wounds
Wounds
Pharmacy
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)
Monthly Prescribing Reference (MPR)
NeedyMeds
RxList - The Internet Drug Index
Virtual Pharmacy Center
Pharmacy CE <--- click on the link to the left
Pharmacy Journals / Newsletters / News
Drug Topics
Formulary
Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy
Pharmacy Today "new"
PharmaLive
U.S. Pharmacist
Pharmacy Textbooks
Electronic Orange Book: Approved Drug Products with
Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations
Medical Abbreviations Dictionary
Physical Therapy
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
Physician Assistant
APCToday (Advanced Practice Clinicians Today) "new"
FREE Registration required for back issues.
JAAPA: Journal of the American Academy of Physicians Assistants
The Internet Journal of Academic Physician Assistants
Social Work
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.
Speech-Language Pathology
Audiology Awareness Campaign
Dysphagia Resource Center
Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) Start Page
The Stuttering Homepage
Patient Information Handouts
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.
Patient Safety Information
AHRQ WebM&M: Morbidity and Mortality Rounds Patient Safety Web Journal
ASHP Resource Center on Patient Safety
Facts about Patient Safety from the Joint Commission
MED-E.R.R.S.com
Online Patient Safety Resources from the National Patient Safety Foundation
RID: Reduce Infection Deaths
Medical Terminology / Coding
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.
ICD-9-CM - Volumes 1, 2 and 3 (2010) --- STAT!Ref
contact library staff for access
Ingenix CPT with RVUs Data File (2010) --- STAT!Ref
contact library staff for access
Medical Terminology Web
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.
Page Last Updated: August 17, 2010