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Last update: 4 September 2009,
by Maureen Bell



This page is divided into four sections General Nursing Sites, Nursing Ethics, Philosophy and Theory of Nursing, and Research and its Methods

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.

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.

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

Hardin Meta Directory - Nursing
A list of web directories for nursing.

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.

MedExplorer - Nursing
Produced by Marlin Glaspey a Canadian paramedic and university student.

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.

Nursecom
A site dedicated to providing news, editorials and dynamic, interactive tutorials for the practising registered nurse.

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

NurseScribe
Lifelong learning resources for nurses.

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.

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Nursing Ethics

Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council (ANMC)
Codes of ethics and professional conduct for Australian nurses and midwives are available from this site.

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
Copyright © 2000 by ICN - International Council of Nurses, 3, place Jean-Marteau, CH-1201 Geneva (Switzerland).

Nursing & Midwifery Council. The Code
The Code - Standards of conduct, performance and ethics for nurses and midwives

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.

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

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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.

International Consortium of Parse Scholars' Home Page
Resources include lists of Parse's own writings, as well as secondary sources and a discussion forum.

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

A Nursing Theory Link Page
A useful list of resources from Clayton College and State University Department of Nursing.

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.

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Research and its Methods

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

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.

Resources for Program Evaluation and Social Research Methods
The focusof this site is on "how-to" do evaluation research and the methods used: surveys, focus groups, sampling, interviews, and other methods.