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Safe Patient Handling Laws  Information on state and federal legislation that concerns safe patient handling.

Travel Nursing Jobs  Travel Nurse Across America offers travel nursing jobs, travel therapy jobs and all the information you need to know on travel RN benefits, continuing education and travel nursing careers.

Cybernurse.com - a site run by nurses for nurses to enhance nursing as a profession.

Learning Room - ECG tutorial, learn more about reading EKG's and what they mean.

Lewis's Medical & First-aid supplies First-Aid & Medical Supplies company, supplying first-aid kits, bandages, dressings, firstaid supplies, etc.

Lise's Nursing

MacNursing - demos, shareware and freeware of interest to nurses, nurse managers, nursing students, and others who work in healthcare.

Nurse Advocate: Nurses and Workplace Violence - dedicated to the recognition and resolution of workplace violence experienced by nurses.

Nurses Lounge - links to chat, free e-mail service and more.

Nurseweek - online home of the California nursing publication. Site includes info on continuing education, jobs, and health care links.

Nursewise - site for nurses, by nurses.

Nursing & Health Care Resources on the Net

Nursing Spectrum - published bi-weekly in six major metropolitan regions by dozens of RNs passionate about delivering top quality content.

RN Central - chat with other nurses and obtain helpful information on employment.!

Resources for Nurses and Families - includes general information and sites with a focus on nursing specialties, particularly parent child nursing.

SchoolNurse.com - serving school nurses from around the United States with medical information and current topics of interest.

Usenet - sci.med.nursing - Nursing questions and discussion.

VirtualNurse - moderated specialty nursing chats, message boards, guestbooks and conferencing.

WholeNurse - info on staff nursing, holistic nursing, alternative medicine, cancer, stroke, diabetes, hypertension, and patient care.

Willy's Emergency Nursing Web - includes chat.      


Companies

Ann Williams: IV Nurse Consultant - Provides in house training on IV services and consulting services of P&P, QC and proceedures.

Educational Resources Inc - provides practice tests (hardcopy/or software) for nursing students and schools.

Firstat Nursing Services

Geriatric Video Productions - resources for continuing education and inservice training for geriatric nurses working in nursing homes, acute care, subacute and long-term care facilities.

Greenwich Nursing & Health Care Registry - specialists in private nursing referrals for in the hospital and home.

LearningLINK - for nurses' lifelong learning.

License To Care - specific to licensed nurses, features chat room, legislative nursing updates and a photo gallery of old nursing uniforms.

Meds Publishing - products for students and nurse educators include software, video tapes, audio tapes, and books, reviews and workshops. Categories include RN, PN, and NCLEX.

Neuroscience Nursing Consultants - offering services in case management and legal nurse consulting.

Nurse Care Health Group - Southern California - service that helps families find the best alternatives for the care of the elderly loved ones.

Nurse To Nurse - provides employers of nurses a monthly newsletter for continuing education, competency evaluations, and more.

Nursecom, Inc. - services include book and journal publishing, association management, and conference planning and management.

Nurses PRN - home health care nursing in Texas, Colorado and Connecticut. Travel nursing employment opportunities.

TeleTriage Systems - create products and services for the telephone triage industry.

Web Directory: Nursing City - provides links to commercial and professional nursing web sites throughout the world.

Window on Nursing - makers of note cards and other paper products that illuminate the art of nursing.    


Conferences

Academy for Career Enhancement (ACE) - offered continuing education classes in diverse topics.

CEU ZONE is setting the standard for quality healthcare professional training. Our courses are interesting, easy to navigate, fast paced, and comprehensive. And you can't beat the price

Concept Media - produces and distributes nursing educational videos and CD-ROMs and human development material.

Ednet LLC. - online provider of continuing education for CNRN'S and nurses.

Envision, Inc. serves the educational needs facing the world of healthcare in an effort to inform, educate and motivate healthcare professionals through training programs for staff development, orientation and continuing education.

Health Interactive - continuing education for nurses (Earn CEUs on-line).

Lippincott's Nursing Center - provides numerous online CE courses for nurses in a wide variety of topics.

Nurse Education Workshops, Inc.- offers continuing education for LVN and RN. Classes include CPR, intravenous therapy, ACLS, trauma, EKG, first aid, and more.

Nurse Test - provider of continuing education for nurses in the State of Florida.

Nursing Education Institute (NEI) - provides continuing education programs where faculty members address vital issues that affect the nursing practice.

Nursing Education of America - non-profit organization providing a full curriculum of home-based nursing continuing education courses along with testing.

Wilson Shepard Education Associates - providing nursing education for nurses includes seminar information.  


Employment

Individual Resumes

Cayaban, Jean - experienced OB nurse looking for a change.

Lin, Yu-Shen RN, MSN, PHC - RN looking for employment in Washington, DC area, specializing in research and alternative medicine.

Lopez, Andrew RN, BS - medical surgical/telemetry staff RN.

Adele Poston Agency - domestic and nursing placement.

Contract Management Services, Inc. - CMSI offers travel nurse assignments nationwide.

Ensearch Management Consultants - recruitment of advanced practice and administrative nurses in the neonatal and pediatric fields.

Erickson & Associates, Inc - advanced practice nurse recruiter specializing in degreed advanced practice clinicians, practitioners, dept heads, managers, and nursing administrators.

Innovations Health Care - provides nurses in a variety of settings, from home care to professional staffing of hospitals and more, in SE Michigan.

MedSearch Staffing Services, Inc. - provides medical personnel to hospitals, nursing homes, HMOs and private practices in Northeast Ohio.

Melnic Consulting Group - independent search firm specializing in the placement of pediatric, neonatal and maternal child nursing positions.

Nurse Staffers - provides health care staffing of RNs, LPNs and CNAs.

Nursefinders - offering staffing services for positions in the nursing field.

Nursing Centers Inc. - supplemental staffing agency for the health care industry.

Nursing Management Services - international healthcare recruitment company specializing in staffing acute care medical facilities throughout the USA.

Orion Medical - nationwide job listings for nurse managers, directors, staff, clinical nurse specialists and more.

Personnel Management Resources - locating positions for physicians, nurse practitioners, nurse managers, pharmacists, physical and occupational therapists.

Procare USA - dedicated to finding temporary and full time employment for American and Canadian Registered Nurses throughout the United States.

Professional Nursing Staffing Services - provides home care services and supplemental facility staffing in the Phoenix Metro area.

Professional Resource Group, Inc. - Jeanna Bozell, RN, CPC, nurse recruiter. Nationwide search and placement of advanced practice nurses including nurse practitioners, clinical specialists, managers, directors, and nursing administrators.

Ronni Cooper Medical, Inc. - specializing in managed care and clinical nursing, permanent and temporary medical positions.

Thornbury Nursing Services and The Scottish Nursing Guild - high-tech nurses for short-term agency assignments in the UK with private hospitals, NHS, and industry.      


Government Agencies

Scottish National Board of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting

Men in American Nursing

Nightingale, Florence

Florence Nightingale: Rural Hygiene - essay written by Nightingale on the subject of hygiene.

Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910) - a tribute to the nursing pioneer.

Bellin College of Nursing - learn more about opportunities in the health care professions, participate in the day with a nurse program and more.

Brigham Young University

Chulalongkorn University (Thailand) Faculty of Nursing

Galen Health Institutes - operates three nursing schools located in Louisville, Kentucky, St. Petersburg, Florida, and San Atonio, Texas.

Indiana University Bloomington - lists academic programs available, faculty, staff, student info, scholarships, and info on bloomington.

Moore Educational Publishers, Inc. - offers an external study nursing degree program for students with clinical experience.

Mount Carmel College of Nursing - undergraduate nursing school with RN to BSN program.

National Institute of Nursing Research - nursing research and training programs, grants and funding opportunities, collaborative research projects, and minority research supplements.

Ohio State University

Oregon Health Sciences University - visit the comprehensive source of information on one of the nation's highest rated Schools of Nursing.

Our Lady of Lourdes School of Nursing

Purdue University

Radford University

San Antonio College

Sharon Regional Health System School of Nursing

Union University

University of Akron

University of Arizona

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences - undergraduate and graduate programs, research center, continuing education, and faculty profiles.

University of Brighton Institute of Nursing and Midwifery

University of California at Los Angeles

University of California at San Francisco

University of Cincinnati

University of Iowa

University of Minnesota - offering four degree options - BSN, MSN, PhD, and RN/BSN/MS.

University of Nevada - Las Vegas

University of Wisconsin at Madison

Vanderbilt University

Virginia Commonwealth University

West Virginia University

Yale School of Nursing  


Midwifery

Birth Centers Online - defines the birthcenter concept and the midwifery model of care for expectant parents and birth center professionals.

Childbirth at Home - wholistic midwifery school, a direct-entry, licensed midwifery training program including referrals to childbirth support services in Southern California.

Dear Midwife: Visiting with Anne Sommers - questions and answers for nervous moms.

Usenet - sci.med.midwifery

Ryerson Polytechnic University

Association of Radical Midwives - midwives, student midwives and others in UK committed to improving the maternity care provided by the NHS.

Citizens for Midwifery - promotes citizen and consumer awareness of midwifery and childbirth issues through networking and information sharing.

Midwives Alliiance of North America - central mission is to promote midwifery as a quality health care option.  


News and Media

Safe Patient Handling Laws  Information on state and federal legislation that concerns safe patient handling.


Nurse Anesthesia

Anesthesia, Nursing, and Medicine Page - information about and for nurse anesthetists.

American Association of Nurse Anesthetists - for patients, health care professionals and CRNAs.

California Association of Nurse Anesthetists

North Carolina Association of Nurse Anesthetists - representing the Certified Nurse Anesthetist in North Carolina; current issues, education, and information.  


Nurse Practitioner

American Academy of Nurse Practitioners - non-profit national professional organization for nurse practitioners of all specialties.

American College of Nurse Practitioners

NJSNA Forum of Nurses in Advanced Practice - NJSNA resource for nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists.

Nurse Practitioner Resources

Nurse Practitioners Support Services - links to resources for nurse practitioners, an on-line directory of nurse practitioners    


Organizations

AMIA Nursing Informatics Working Group

Alliance for Psychosocial Nursing (APN) - resource and lobbying force for nurses and their patients containing memberships, meetings, a job bank, online journal, and discussion areas for important issues and questions.

American Assembly of Men in Nursing - goal is to enhance nursing by increasing the visibility of men in the profession; membership includes both women and men.

American Association of Colleges of Nursing

American Association of Critical-Care Nurses - provides clinical resources, journals and education opportunities to nursing and other healthcare professionals.

American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants - nonprofit organization dedicated to the professional enhancement of registered nurses practicing in a consulting capacity in the legal field.

American Association of Managed Care Nurses - to establish standards for managed care nursing practice and to positively impact public policy regarding managed health care delivery.

American Association of Neuroscience Nurses

American Association of Nurse Attorneys

American Holistic Nurses' Association - world wide organization offering support and education to nurses who seek to function within a holistic perspective.

American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA) - promotes nursing informatics through communication, education, research and professional activities.

Association of Camp Nurses

Association of Rehabilitation Nurses - promotes and advances professional rehabilitation nursing practice through education, advocacy, collaboration, and research.

Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) - promotes excellence in nursing practice to improve the health of women and newborns.

British Nursing Association - provides nursing services, health care trusts and temporary employment to nurses.

California Nurses Association - represents patients in patient advocacy issues.

Community Nurse Association of Fairhaven, MA - provides skilled therapeutic nursing services and health supervision to any resident of the Greater New Bedford area of Massachusetts.

CultureNurse.org - tdevoted specifically to transcultural nursing.

Emergency Nurses Association

Federation of European Nurses in Diabetes (FEND) - promoting and developing the professional role of the diabetes nurse in Europe.

Florence Project - grassroots group of nurses working to both improve the state of health care and halt the erosion of the professional status of nurses.

German Nursing Association - in German.

Hospice & Palliative Nurses Association

Intravenous Nurses Society (INS) - national nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the intravenous nursing specialty throught professional education and research.

Moving Ahead with Advanced Practice Nurses in GA - promoting quality mental health care for the public and developing and supporting the position of the psychiatric nurse specialist.

National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. - information on public policy regarding nursing, computerized clinical simulation testing, nurse aides, and nursing regulation.

National League for Nursing - advancing the health of diverse communities through nursing.

New York Professional Nurses Union (NYPNU) - representing the Registered Nurses at Lenox Hill Hospital for over ten years. We are a small, grassroots organization attending to the needs of over 800 Lenox Hill nurses.

New York State Nurses Association

Sigma Theta Tau International - nursing honor society.

Society of Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates (SGNA) - an organization dedicated to gastroenterology and endoscopy nursing.

Society of Urologic Nurses and Associates - professional organization committed to excellence in patient care standards and a continuum of quality care, clinical practice, and research through education of its members, patients, families, and community.

Tucson Nurse - provides information about educational and employment options, as well as links to local professional organizations.

Virginia Association of Colleges of Nursing - dedicated to improving health care in Virginia through the education of professional nurses.

Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada

British Columbia Nurses' Union (BCNU)

Canadian Nurses Association - seeks to advance the quality of nursing in the interests of the public.

Canadian Nursing Students' Association (CNSA/AEIC) - national voice of nursing students in diploma and baccalaureate nursing programs in Canada.

Manitoba Nurses' Union

NWT Registered Nurses Association

Ontario Nurses Association - a vision of health care which includes the participation of everyone for quality patient health care.

Ordre des Infirmières et Infirmiers du Québec - licensing body for 67,000 registered nurses in Québec.

Registered Nurses Association of British Columbia - collection of news items, resource lists and membership information.

Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO)

Saskatchewan Registered Nurses' Association

United Nurses of Alberta - trade union representing registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses.      


Student Nursing

Canadian Nursing Students' Association (CNSA/AEIC) - national voice of nursing students in diploma and baccalaureate nursing programs in Canada.

Nurses ICQ Network - helps nurses and nursing students all over the world find each other, make friends, and give support.

Student Nurses' Association of Pennsylvania

Usenet - bit.listserv.snurse-l - International Nursing Student Group.  


Web Directories

Hardin Meta Directory - Nursing

NetNurse - Nursing and related links.