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Nursing

Sites of interest to nurses or those interested in nursing as a career.

SEE ALSO Magazines • Associations on the Net

Resources in this category:

allnurses.com
http://allnurses.com/
An online community for nurses that serve all aspects from news, chat community, to school searches, and employment opportunities.
Cancer Resources from Oncolink
http://www.oncolink.com/
Comprehensive patient information on all types of cancers, treatments, coping with cancer, advice for finding an oncologist, news, and much more. For healthcare professionals, the site offers disease and drug information, patient handouts, and updates on new therapies and research.
CCRN-CEN Central.com: Caring for Critically Ill People
http://www.ccrn-cen-central.com/
Registered Nurses can expand their professional status and salary expectations by acquiring certification in critical care. This site provides easy access to information and practice questions for the two examinations: CCRN (Certification for Adult, Pediatric, and Neonatal Critical Care Nurses) and CEN (Certification for Emergency Nursing). The actual exams are available through other links on the page, but this nursing site makes it easy and quick to find useful information about them. The exams have a fee, but here the introductory information is free and the access is simple.
Intute: Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health
http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/nursing/
"NMAP (Nursing, Midwifery and Allied health Professions) is a gateway to evaluated, quality Internet resources, aimed at students, researchers, academics and practitioners in the health and medical sciences."
Nurse Universe
http://www.nurseuniverse.com/
An online community for nurses that serve all aspects from chat community, to school searches, and employment opportunities.
NurseZone.com
http://www.nursezone.com/
Career advice and information for those in the nursing profession.
Pain Resource Center
http://prc.coh.org/
Bibliographies of print literature and links to online resources about chronic pain management, pain assessment, palliative health care, quality assurance, and ethics in nursing. Offers resources for both consumers and healthcare professionals.

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