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Associate
Degree Nursing Program
Internet Resources
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES APA
Style Manuals
APA
Style Essentials
KY Virtual University "How to Cite" page
Software
(only available to WKCTC Nursing Students).
Ask for the log-on and passwords from
your instructor or inquire in the nursing office. Critical
Thinking in Nursing Management series assists students or nurses at
all levels of experience, especially those with leadership and management goals,
to become effective nurse leaders and managers. The series helps learners bridge
the gap between reading about abstract principles and experiencing real life-situations.
Learners gain insight into nursing management through various strategies. Delmar's
Fundamental and Advanced Nursing Skills Online contains 200 full-color
interactive nursing skills. Containing approximately 500 minutes of step-by-step
video, the online format is perfect for self-assessment and to promote competence
in fundamental and complex nursing skills. Over 1500 full color, real-life photographs
and video clips emphasize key actions and rationales to help encourage comprehension
of each skill. EDGT's
Online Tutorials
•Math
Magic is an online program that teaches the basic
concepts of dosage calculations using a dimensional analysis approach
•Management Skills: Effective Delegation
teaches the essential elements for the safe delegation of nursing
care and how to implement the delegation process using a nursing process framework.
•Home Health Nursing: Applying Problem Solving
Strategies is designed to help nursing students and
practicing nurses learn the difference between acute care nursing and nursing
in the home setting.
Professional
Development Software
•Adult Health
Nursing Concepts and Skills: Genitourinary,
Hepatic-Biliary, Musculoskeletal
•Critical
Care Concepts and Skills: Cardiovascular,
Endocrine, Gastrointestinal, Neurological, Respiratory
•Maternity:
Normal Pregnancy,
Problems of Pregnancy
•Pediatric
Nursing Concepts and Skills: Chronic,
Out-Patient, Respiratory
•Psychiatric
Mental Health Nursing Concepts and Skills: Anger,
Hostility, and Agression; Anxiety, Depression and Elation, Severe Persistent Mental
Disorders, Substance Abuse
•Recognizing
Common Dysrhythmias Textbooks
Harkreader
& Hogan: Fundamentals of Nursing (Evolve Web site) for NSG 101
Ignatavicius:
Medical Surgical Nursing (Evolve Web site) for NSG 203
Varcarolis: Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing (Evolve Web site)
for NSG 203
Wong, Perry, and Hockenberry: Maternal Child Nursing Care website for
selected text in NSG 204 Other Email:
Access to student email accounts NURSING RESOURCES American
Nurses Association is
a full-service professional organization representing the nation's 2.6 million
Registered Nurses through its 54 constituent state associations and 13 organizational
affiliate members. ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards
of nursing practice, promoting the economic and general welfare of nurses in the
workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and by lobbying
the Congress and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and
the public.
Caring4you
website offers free NCLEX practice exams and quizes.
Discover Nursing is a great source for nursing careers and is sponsored by
Johnson & Johnson.
Kentucky
Board of Nursing protects public health and welfare by development and enforcement
of state laws governing the safe practice of nursing. The KBN does primary verification
of an initial applicant's nursing education.
Kentucky Nurses Association (KNA) is the only full-service professional
organization for the state's entire nurse population. In addition to its role
to promote the essential role of the registered nurse in health care delivery,
the Association serves as an advocate for quality patient care in all settings.
National League
for Nursing advances quality nursing education that prepares the nursing workforce
to meet the needs of diverse populations in an ever-changing health care environment.
Nursing Center is the only web portal nurses need to gain knowledge,
develop professionally, and advance their careers. An online continuing education
(CE) collection gives nurses hundreds of CE articles as well as online testing
with instant results and certificates and a CE planner to help nurses keep their
CE up-to-date. NursingJobsHelp.com
educates students about job access and the necessary requirements for finding
the right job.
Rinehart & Associates provides nursing review seminars for both RN and
PN graduates preparing for the NCLEX examination.
RN
Web serves registered nurses in various specialties, primarily those working
in hospital-affiliated facilities. Roughly 80 percent of the editorial matter
is clinical. Legal issues, ethical questions, and career development are among
the non-clinical topics covered. Eight contact hours of continuing education are
offered in every issue.
HEALTHCARE RESOURCES
AHCPR, the
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, provides research that improves access
to care and information that enables better decisions about health care.
ACS, the
American Cancer Society, is committed to fighting cancer through balanced programs
of research, education, patient service, advocacy, and rehabilitation.
American Diabetes
Association is the nation's leading nonprofit health organization providing
diabetes research, information and advocacy.
Centers
for Disease Control (CDC) serves as the national focus for developing and
applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion
and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United
States.
Family
Doctor is operated by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), a
national medical organization representing more than 94,300 family physicians,
family practice residents and medical students. Information on the site is written
and reviewed by physicians and patient education professional at the AAFP.
Healthfinder
is a Federal Web site for consumers, developed by the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services. It is recognized as a key resource for finding the best government
and nonprofit health and human services information on the internet.
HIV InSite
is a source for comprehensive, in-depth HIV/AIDS information and knowledge.
KidsHealth
Info is a gateway to authoritative sources of information on children's health.
Lab
Tests Online has been designed to help you, as a patient or caregiver, to
better understand the many clinical lab tests that are part of routine care as
well as diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of conditions and diseases.
Mayo Clinic
Health Information offers health information, self-improvement and disease
management tools, and access to the knowledge and experience of Mayo Clinic for
all of your consumer health information needs.
Medline Plus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health
and other trusted sources on over 650 diseases and conditions. There are also
lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary,
extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information
from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.
NHLB,
the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, provides leadership for a national
program in diseases of the heart, blood vessels, lung, and blood; blood resources,
and sleep disorders.
FDA
Health Information Online provides an excellent jumping off point for those
who want to learn more about the agency and the drugs, food supplements, and medical
devices it regulates.
WebMD
provides services that help physicians, consumers, providers and health plans
navigate the complexity of the healthcare system.
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