Nursing Sites

1. INSERT INSERT facilitates the dissemination of information through a web based network dedicated to the subject of intravenous therapy and care. If you care for patients receiving any form of IV therapy you will benefit from a free INSERT membership. This network was born from necessity in April 1999. This is a great all round site for IV nurses.
   
2. NURSE , a UK-based WWW Information Service relating to nursing/health.
   
3. Worldwide Nurse site
   
4. National League for Nursing
   
5. All Nurses Site
   
6. Pharmahorizons This is a new Canadian Internet resource designed especially for the healthcare, biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors.
   
7. Nursing Ethics This is the web site for Nursing Ethics.
   
8. NAPPSI web site Their mission is to advance sharps injury protection in the healthcare environment through vigorous promotion of Primary Prevention technologies and practices. A great web site to bookmark and check on a regular basis
   
9. Nurse Web Search Index Features a full text searching of major nurse topical and information internet resources, provides categorized listings of nurse related internet sites.
   

Nursing Associations

1. Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada
   
2. AARN The Alberta Association of Registered Nurses web site.
   
3. Canadian Association of Nephrology Nurses and Technologists
   
4. Mioti web site great resource for associations and upcoming conventions
   
5. Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
   
6. Canadian Nursing Students' Association
   

Web sites for health professionals

1. Community and Hospital Infection Control Association
   
   
2. Nightingale , Knoxville College of Nursing, at the University of Tennessee.
   
3. American Health Consultants Home Page , a page with information on specialized health care products, the latest news in health care and dozens of links to various health care associations.
   
   
4. Health Canada , An excellent all-round health site.
   
5. Centers For Disease Control , an excellent search and reference tool for health and disease-related information. Check out the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on the homepage. (You may have trouble accessing the website. A simple solution... Click on the link a second time. It should work.)
   
6. Cinahl Information Systems. For nearly 40 years nurses, healthcare professionals, researchers, students, and educators have known the CINAHL database as their number one resource to the professional literature of nursing & allied health including orthopaedic care! The CINAHL database includes bibliographic citations from over 900 journals, including the CINA journal, and more than 250,000 records plus abstracts. Now available online with CINAHLdirect!
   
7. RCN Publishing Company. Publisher of the weekly journal Nursing Standard and a range of specialist journals. It is also the home of Nursing Standard Online, the first ever weekly nursing journal to publish on the internet.
   
8. Home Infusion Therapy Management - American Health Consultants. This is the site of Home Infusion Therapy.
   
9. NHIA - National Home Infusion Association. Web site for NHIA
   
10. The Canadian Association of Critical Care Nurses.
    
11. 'Nursing: Caring for those in need' web site A great site for all healthcare workers
    
12. The Canadian Nurses Association
    
13. Intravenous Nurses Society. Web site for our colleagues in the States.
    
14. The Healthcare Metropolis. This is a healthcare specific directory. A great site!
    
15. The Vancouver Hospital Renal Program web site
    
16. HIV Protection for Nurses. This site includes Occupational Exposure, Pain and HIV, Opportunistic Infections as well as other categories that help improve quality of life for all those involved with HIV and AIDS.
    
17. BROWNson's Notes This is Dianne Brownson's Nursing web site. Take a minute to look at this one. It's very well done.
    
18. CiteLine Valuable Health Information Rich sites of disease-related information
    
19. Nursing the Internet If you want to find something on Nursing this is the place to look.
    
20. Courses for IV Nursing This is Eileen Koza's web site. Affordable single day "hands-on" workshops teaching venipuncture, central line management, pain managements with CADD pumps, workshops offered in small groups on a prn basis.
    
21. Uniforms A link to a uniform site
    
22. National Association of Vascular Access Networks NAVAN
    
23. Healthlinks Directory One of the most comprehensive online directories available specifically for the use of healthcare professionals
    
24. Rubber Room - Natural Rubber Latex Allergy Discussion Group
    
25. US NIOSH Latex Alert - Rubber Room Mirror
    
26. IVhouse The home of I.V. House intravenous site protectors
    
27. The Great Nurse site This is a Nursing Resource Site which offers discussion areas, and also a job site.
    
28. Pharmaceutical Technology
    
29. League of Intravenous Therapy Education LITE
    
30. Pappin Communications Web site for Pappin Communications - publisher of our CINA Yearbook
    
31. Medical Conferences Site This is the web site for over 7,00 upcoming medical events in over 70 countries.
    
32. The King Guide to Parenteral Admixtures This guide has been the standard reference for IV drug compatibility and stability since 1971. Updated quarterly and available in print, CD ROM and Internet Editions.
    
33. American Society on Aging ASA Enhancing the knowledge and skills of those working with older adults and their families.
    
34. Saint Elizabeth Health Care's web site.
    
35. International Hospital Federation - this site provides timely updates on the newest developments in technologies, products and services, best practice in hospital management with case studies and industry reports
    
36. Centre for Phlebotomy Education Providing comprehensive phlebotomy education to allied healthcare professionals through workshops, conference presentations.