Online Nursing Journals

America Journal of Nursing Contains articles, career guides and information about nursing associations.

National League for Nursing NLN Home Page. Includes information on membership, publication and testing information.

Nursing Research

National Center for Health Statistics - Brought to you by the CDC, this page contains access and links to health care databases nationwide.

Qualitative Nursing Research - An excellent resource for qualitative nursing research.

Medscape - An excellent, current medical resource. Once you sign up, you receive weekly E-mails with up-to-date clinical research and articles. Full text articles are available free through Medscape.

CINAHL - It's now FREE for SPU Students, Faculty & Staff (Contact Library for Login Info.) This database is accessed through the Banner system.

Free Medline Search - Use this site to search nursing, medical, dental and psych journals. The best part: it's also free!

Healthlinks Journals Full text retrieval for several health science journals.

National Library of Medicine Every significant program of the Library is represented, from medical history to biotechnology. We hope that the resources of the world's largest biomedical library will find ever wider useful application around the nation and around the world.

Pharmacology Information

Antibiotic Guide A concise antibiotic guide from the University of Wisconsin.

Drug InfoNet  Drug InfoNet is your one-stop WWW site for all your healthcare informational needs. We provide both information and links to areas on the web concerning healthcare and pharmaceutical-related topics. This free service is brought to you to improve your education as consumers and healthcare professionals.

The Food and Drug Administration

Nursing Law and Ethics

Washlaw Home Page Governmental links to all 50 States and many other national law resources.


Nurse Practitioner Resources

AANP Home Page for the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.
ACNM Home Page for the American College of Nurse Midwives.
ACNP Home Page for the American College of Nurse Practitioners.
Nurse Practitioners Resources From Springnet Publishers, this site has links to many NP resources and journal articles.
Nurse Practitioner Central Information for and about Nurse Practitioners

Nursing Related Sites and Medical Resources

American Association of College of Nursing Use this site for information on educational standards, legislative advocacy, publications and position statements. Also contains current news and information on nursing higher education.

ACP Online Home page for the American College of Physicians. Includes a searchable page on bedside interviews and examinations.

American Journal of Nursing Home page for the AJN. Contains links to career and nursing association information.

American Medical Association An excellent online health resource with information for both healthcare consumers and providers.

Discover Nursing A site published by Johnson and Johnson to promote the nursing profession.  The site has many resources for nurses and potential nurses.

Health Careers Your complete on-line healthcare career resource.

Infectious Disease Links.

Journal of Nursing Jocularity - Humor for nurses, doctors and patients.

Martindale's Health Science Guide This page contains everything the healthcare provider needs. Has over 37,000 teaching files and 45,000 medical cases. This is a great page!

Medical Humor

Oncology Nursing Society Web page dedicated to Oncology nursing. After a free and simple online registration, you will have access to oncology information for providers and patients.

National Guideline Clearinghouse A public resource for evidence based clinical practice guidelines.

The National Student Nursing Association Web page devoted to Student Nursing Issues.

Nightingale - From the University of Tennessee, Knoxville - School of Nursing, this site is full of nursing links.

Northwest Geriatric Education Center - This site has information on health promotion for older adults.

Nurses Christian Fellowship- Bringing the good news of Jesus Christ to nursing, Promoting a Christian worldview in nursing education and practice.

NursingNet - A nursing resource pack full if information including employment opportunities, online forums, links to other nursing pages and much more!

Penn State Medical School - This site is mainly dedicated to radiology. It has teaching files and other resources.

The Virtual Hospital - From the University of Iowa, College of Medicine, this sites is a resource for patients and healthcare professionals. It contains site for teaching and assorted publications.

The Virtual Nursing Center One of the best nursing resource sites
available! Packed full of information for nurses. You must check this out!

Visible man and woman From the NIH, this site has color MRI and CT cross-section pictures of the human body. Slow downloading, but great images.

Visible Human Viewer A nice way to see the visible human project.

Preparing for NCLEX

National Council of State Boards of Nursing

Organizations -- Washington

Seattle-King County Department of Health
Washington State Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission -- State Board of Nursing, Washington
Washington State Department of Health

KOMO 4 Highlights Nursing

Organizations -- National
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Center for Science in the Public Interest 
Federal Drug Administration (FDA)
Health Care Financing Administration
Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO)
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
World Health Organization (WHO)