Nursing Resources by Topic

Last update: 25 July 2011,
by Maureen Bell

Other health-related areas which may be of interest to nurses are:

Complementary Medicine

Consumer Health Information

Consumer Information on Mental Disorders

Evidence-Based Medicine. Resources include links to the full text of books and journal articles, and notes on the development of the Cochrane Library

Exercise and Fitness

Nutrition and Diet

General Nursing Sites

allnurses.com!
This site is the new home for Worldwide Nurse, which moved on March 27, 2000.

Australian Nursing and Midwifery History Project
The Australian Nursing History and Midwifery Project is hosted by the School of Nursing, at the University of Melbourne.

CareSearch, palliative care knowledge network
The website has been funded by the Australian Government as part of the National Palliative Care Program.

Enhancing Rural and Remote Health Care by Making Better Use of the Skills and Capacities of Nurses
Recommendations from a Workshop on remote and rural nursing practice: A discussion paper. Lesley Fitzpatrick, Convenor. National Association of Rural Health Education and Research Organisations, June 2001.

ENW: Emergency Nursing World !
This site aims to be the Web's practice-based resource for emergency nurses.

The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health
Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the Institute of Medicine; Institute of Medicine. Washington D.C., National Academies Press, 2011.

Google Directory - Nursing
A well organised directory of nursing sites from Google.

Intute: Health and Life Sciences - Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health
The UK's gateway to high quality Internet resources in Nursing, Midwifery, and Allied Health providing access to the best web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists. This service was formerly known as NMAP.

MEDtropolis - Virtual Body
A simple animated tour of some basic body systems.

National Review of Nursing Education 2002: Our Duty of Care
The Review was jointly commissioned by the Minister for Health and Ageing, and the Minister for Education, Science and Training. This is the final report

NSW Department of Health - Nursing and Midwifery -Publications and Resources
The full text of many of the publications listed is available online.

Nursing, Health, and the Environment
Nursing, health & the environment: strengthening the relationship to improve the public's health / Andrew M. Pope, Meta A. Snyder, and Lillian H. Mood, editors ; Committee on Enhancing Environmental Health Content in Nursing Practice, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine. Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1995.

Nursing Portal - Nursing Links Page

The Patient Profession: Time for Action
The patient profession: time for action : report on the inquiry into nursing. Canberra : Senate Community Affairs References Committee Secretariat, 2002.

Quality of life compendium
From the Center for Quality of Life Research in Nursing Science Section for Nursing Science, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen.

Quality of Working Life for Nurses
Report on qualitative research, by Niki Ellis, and Aurelia Pompili. Canberra, Department of Health and Ageing, 2002. This report investigates the quality of working life issues that result in job satisfaction or dissatisfaction for nurses in the aged care sector. The analysis of this report is drawn from a range of focus group sessions with aged care nurses in Victoria and New South Wales.

Sudden Death Trauma Scenarios
This site comes from Liverpool Hospital in New South Wales. A variety of what they call "Sudden Death Trauma Scenarios" are presented with multiple choice options at each decision point.

Nursing Ethics

Deontological Ethics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

International Centre for Nursing Ethics
The International Centre for Nursing Ethics (ICNE) is a worldwide association of university research and teaching centres which focus on issues of morality, professional ethics, cultural and religious values, law and accountability in the field of nursing and related disciplines

ICN Code of Ethics for Nurses - International Council of Nurses
The ICN Code of Ethics for Nurses, is a guide for action based on social values and needs.The Code has served as the standard for nurses worldwide since it was first adopted in 1953, and is regularly reviewed and revised in response to the realities of nursing and health care in a changing society.

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia - Codes and Guidelines
Codes of ethics and professional conduct are available from this site.

NursingEthics.ca
A site with many useful resources including articles, books and web sites. It is maintained by Chris MacDonald, a philosopher and bioethicist who lectures in the Department of Bioethics, Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada).

NursingWorld | Ethics & Human Rights
Resources from the American Nurses Association Center for Ethics and Human Rights.

Teleological ethics - New World Encyclopedia

Additional codes of ethics and other material on bioethics and human rights can be found on my public health page

Philosophy and Theory

Existentialism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model [h2cm]
A health and social care model, originally created in the UK by Brian E Hodges.

Institute of Human Becoming
The Institute of Human Becoming, founded in 1992 by Rosemarie Rizzo Parse, was created to offer interested nurses and others the opportunity to study, with Dr. Parse, the ontological, epistemological, and methodological aspects of the human becoming school of thought.

Logical positivism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A description of the logical positivist school of thought.

Nursing Theories; a companion to nursing theories and models
From Current Nursing, a web portal established in August 2004 with the intention of providing a common platform for nurses to access reliable internet information. It includes information on a large number of theories and individual theorists. There is also a general Introduction to Nursing Theories section there are also quizzes to test your knowledge.

Nursing Theory Page
A wealth of information by and about the major nursing theorists. The Nursing Theory Page is a collaborative effort by an international group who are interested in developing a collection of resources about nursing theories throughout the world.

Phenomenology (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

What is Phenomenology?
From the Center for Advanced Research in Phenonenology.

Research and its Methods

Additional material on qualitative research can be found on my public health page.

Click here for a list of the library's books and journals on nursing research

Google Directory - Grounded Theory

Nurses' Use of Research Information in Clinical Decision Making: A Descriptive and Analytical Study. Final Report
By Carl Thompson, Dorothy McCaughan, Nicky Cullum, Trevor Sheldon, David Thompson, and Ann Mulhall. Report Presented To The NHS R&D Programme In Evaluating Methods To Promote The Implementation Of R&D. Centre for Evidence Based Nursing, University of York, 2003.

Qual Page
From the Ubiversity of Georgia, this site has many resources about qualitative research and is regularly updated.

Qualitative Methods Workbook
By C. George Boeree of Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania.

Qualitative Research Web Sites
A list from the online journal The Qualitative Report.

Research Methods Knowledge Base
A web-based textbook that addresses all of the topics in a typical introductory undergraduate or graduate course in social research methods. It is produced by William M. Trochim, a Professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University.