This comprehensive site, sponsored by Nurse Practitioner Support Services, offers information and resources of interest to Advanced Practice Nurses.
Those looking for a new job can find postings of employment opportunities, as well as other tools to assist you in your search, such as tips on resumé preparation and interviewing skills.
While it is free to sign up for these discussion groups, users should exercise restraint in joining too many, because the tremendous volume of e-mail that some groups generate can quickly become overwhelming.
ARNP Care is available for downloading either as pure text or in PDF format. Be forewarned, however: the ".PDF" format requires Acrobat Reader from Adobe. If you do not already have Acrobat Reader on your computer, it is free for downloading from the Adobe home page.
You can dowload back issues of the Netwalker, a column from NP news, a now defunct but hughly informative electronic newsletter. This "E-zine" does a good job of introducing the internet and explaining some of its many issues.
American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN)
Kansas Continuous Learning Project
KU Continuing Nursing Education
Includes full text of Annals of Thorasic Surgery, membership database, MEDLINE access, and a section for medical residents.
Includes proceedings of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Practice Guidelines Conference, MD Anderson's Medical Oncology, unlimited use of Medline, AIDSline, PDQ, and Cancerlit. A PRR Company website.
Virtual World Congress from the American College of Chest Physicians
Over 75 scientific and clinical sessions are presented using the latest World Wide Web technologies for direct audio listening and graphical visualization. Involves login, password.
Plastic Surgery Consultants, Ltd.
Is this where we're headed? The home page features a rapturous product of plastic surgery (or so it implies); go to "All About Plastic Surgery: and you'll find little mannequins whose "trouble areas" you can click on - Forehead Lift! Skin Resurfacing! Nose Job (I mean Rhinoplasty)! Breast Enlargement Breast Reduction (yes, for you men, too)! You'll get a little pep talk about the surgery that can make you happy, and make you feel guiltless for wanting it ("Are you feeling as though Mother Nature played a dirty trick on you?"). Straight up marketing for elective surgery.
International Museum of Surgical Science
One of the oddest, most humbling web sites I've run across. It features an Interactive Antique Illness that takes you back to the 1800's and asks you to make treatment decisions based on medical knowledge and practices at the time. So much for the good old days…
The use of databases at the National Library of Medicine is a must-read if you have ever struggled with getting timely, pertinent data from this reference source.
American Academy of Physician Assistants
Some suggestions from Home Health care of Washington