RN Zone Links
 

Keeping current with today’s professional changes and achieving best practices are awesome undertakings.  To this end, Husted Life Care Planning has developed a starter kit of helpful web links. The best part of this Starter Kit is that these links are free!!!  Browsing TIP: Browse all the sites listed. Many of them fit into several categories. If you know of a helpful site to add to this list, please email me at info@rnzone.com. 

Articles for finding health information on the web
Needle in a Hay Stack? Finding health information on the  web http://www.nursingworld.org/ojin/infocol/info_2.htm 
Ask Question Sites
Ask Jeeves http://www.ask.com/

Case Management
Case Management Society of America http://www.cmsa.org/ 
 
Medscape http://www.medscape.com/px/urlinf

Clearing House – Federal Health Information
2005 Federal Health Information Centers and Clearing House http://www.health.gov/nhic/Pubs/clearinghouses.htm 

Consumer links 
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality http://www.ahrq.gov/

Black healthcare.com @ www.blackhealthcare.com/

Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services- consumer section www.cms.hhs.gov/
 
Healthfinder: http://www.healthfinder.gov/

Health information for the whole family from the Academy of Family Physicians  http://familydoctor.org/

Medline Plus Hispanic-American Health
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/hispanicamericanhealth.html

Merck Source
http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_home.jsp

Office of Professional Misconduct New York State Department of Education
http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/opmc/main.htm

The Stanford Health Library
http://healthlibrary.stanford.edu/resources/videos.html

WebMDHealth http://my.webmd.com/webmd_today/home/default 
 
Continuing Education
See journals and nursing associations.  Free continuing medical education programs by specialty
http://www.medscape.com/cmecenterdirectory/Default?src=hdr 

 
Disability Sources 
Information on assistive technology http://www.abledata.com/

Job Accommodation Network http://www.jan.wvu.edu/ 
 
Disease Management
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/about.htm 


Evidence Based Medicine
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality http://www.ahrq.gov/

Health Services Technology Assessment Text.(HSAT)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat

National Guideline Clearinghouse www.guideline.gov/

National Library of Medicine (NLM). The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S... www.gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd 
 
National Quality Measures Clearinghouse
www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/survey/page1.aspx?id=6c967a7d-f708-448c- 


Healthcare Policy
GPO Access (official information from the three branches of the federal government) http://www.gpoaccess.gov/

Health Policy Statistics Section (HPSS) – Links to Health Policy Sites www.amstat-online.org/sections/hpss/links.htm

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation United States Department of Health and Human Services aspe.hhs.gov/index.shtml  
 
Journals
Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/

Electronic Journal Miner http://ejournal.coalliance.org/

Free Medical Journals http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/

Nursing ejournal at Medscape 
http://www.medscape.com/pages/homepages/ejournal/tapnursing 


Journal Searches (for abstracts only)
PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi 

Legal Nurse Consulting
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/errorsix.htm 
 
Martindale-Hubbell
http://lawyers.martindale.com/xp/Martindale/home.xml

Medical Terminology http://www.mtdesk.com/c.shtml

Medscape http://www.medscape.com/px/urlinfo

National Practitioner Databank http://www.npdb-hipdb.com/index.html 
 
The American Bar Association http://www.abanet.org/home.cfm 
 
Life Care Planning
Care Planner Network http://www.careplanners.net/

Drugstore .com http://www.drugstore.com/

International Academy of Life Care Planners
http://www.internationalacademyoflifecareplanners.com/

National Center for Health Statistics (Life Expectancy)
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lifexpec.htm

Pillbot.com http://www.pillbot.com/

Sammons Preston Roylan Rehabilitation Products 2004
http://www.sammonspreston.com/ 

Media Links
Essential Links.com provides access to multiple media sites including
CNN
ABC news
CBS news
FOX news
MSNBC
PBS news hour
C-SPAN
USA Today
New York Times
Washington Post
Magazines
Available @ www.el.com/ 
 
Medicare Set Asides
Medicare Coordination of Benefits http://www.cms.hhs.gov/medicare/cob/

National Alliance of Medicare Set-Aside Professionals http://www.namsap.com/ 
 
Mental Sites
Mental Help Net http://mentalhelp.net/ 
 
Nursing and Professional Organizations
American Association of Nurse Life Care Planners
http://www.aanlcp.org/

American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants
http://www.aalnc.org/

American Nurses Association official site
http://www.nursingworld.org/ 
 
Association of Rehabilitation Nurses http://www.rehabnurse.org/

Case Management Society of America http://www.cmsa.org/

Directory of nursing organizations
http://dir.yahoo.com/Health/Nursing/Organizations/ 
 
International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals
http://www.rehabpro.org/ 
 
Physician Sites
The Medical Literature Guide http://amedeo.com/

American Academy of Family Physicians. http://www.aafp.org/

The best medical websites
http://www.goldenlinks4doctors.com/preliminaryresults.php 
 
Population Based Medicine and Medicare Set-Asides
Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services- professional section
www.cms.hhs.gov/ 
 
and Medicare secondary payer and you
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/medicare/cob/msp/msp_detail.asp

National Health Information Center
www.health.gov/nhic/
United States National Library of Medicine National Institutes of
Health @ www.nlm.nih.gov/portals/healthcare.html 
 
Spinal Cord Injury
Spinal Cord injury Model System Dissemination Center
http://www.mscisdisseminationcenter.org/

16 Model Spinal Cord injury Systems
http://www.ncddr.org/rpp/hf/hfdw/mscis/map.html 


Toll Free Numbers
2005 Toll Free Numbers for Health Information
www.health.gov/nhic/pubs/tollfree.htm  


Traumatic Brain Injury
American Brain Tumor Association
http://hope.abta.org/site/PageServer

Brain Injury Association of America
http://www.biausa.org/Pages/splash.html

Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago http://www.ric.org/

Substance Abuse and Traumatic Brain Injury
Synap Shots http://www.synapshots.org/ 
 
TBI Model Systems http://www.tbindc.org/ 


U.S. Government Sites
U.S. Government sites http://www.hivnetnordic.org/links/us_gov_sites.html 


University Hospital Links
Stanford University Health Library
http://healthlibrary.stanford.edu/resources/internet/bodysys.html  
 

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