Searching the Web | nursing websites
| Representative Examples of the Types of Web Sites Available for Nursing Information | ||
| Name of Site and URL | Type of Site | Description of Contents |
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| Alliance for Nursing Informatics/ http://www.allianceni.org/ | Organization | Collaboration of 20 nursing informatics groups in the U.S. Represents more than 3,000 nurses, with the goal of "Providing a single point of connection between nursing informatics individuals and groups, and the broader nursing and healthcare community." |
| Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Featured News http://cdc.gov/news/ | News | Up-to-date links to health related national and international news. |
| Essential Nursing Resources http://homepages.nyu.edu/~skj1/essentialnursingresources2007.html | Freely accessible list of essential print, electronic, and web reference tools. | Published biannually by the Interagency Council on Information Resources for Nursing (ICIRN), essential reference tools, both print and electronic, with links to meta sites. |
| Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html | A free Internet tutorial. | Hypertext linkedInternet tutorial, for beginners to advanced searchers. |
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Google http://google.com/ Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/ |
search engines |
Google indexes over 8 billion web sites, ranking by popularity. Google Scholar searches across many disciplines and sources: peer reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. |
| Hardin Meta Directory of Nursing Internet Sites http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/nurs.html | A metadirectory of nursing information. | Selected links to sites related to nursing, sponsored by the University of Iowa. |
| HIPAA / U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/ | Government site | Background, Fact Sheets, Educational Materials, Regulations and Standards related to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 |
| Nursing Discussion Forums http://nursing.buffalo.edu/mccartny/nursing_discussion_forums.html | Meta site | Links to discussion forums for many nursing specialties. |
| In Our Own Words: Medscape Nurses http://medscapenursing.blogs.com/ | Blog | An example of a web log where nurses may share professional issues. |
| Lippincott's Nursing Center http://www.nursingcenter.com/ | A site provided by a publisher of nursing texts and journals. | Selected full-text access to journals (may require free registration); opportunities to earn on-line CE credit; career and association links; forum discussions. |
| MetaCrawler http://www.metacrawler.com/ | A meta-search engine. | Simultaneously searches multiple search engines and consolidates results in a ranked list. (Metacrawlers may incorporate rankings purchased by sponsors from individual search engines.) |
| MedlinePlus® http://medlineplus.gov/ | Free consumerhealth gateway. | Gateway to authoritative consumer health information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Includes drug information, encyclopedia, patient tutorials, and latest health news. |
| National Library of Medicine Gateway http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd | Searchable access to multiple resources at one site. | Bibliographic resources, consumer health, and other resources from National Libraryof Medicine. |
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Online Journal of Issues in Nursing http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN.aspx |
Free electronic nursing journal. | A full-text electronic journal available free on the Internet. |
