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Internet Resources for
Nurse Practitioner Students

Compiled by Amy Rosenbaum-Welsh, RN, MS

"I've made a list of sites that I hope are
both interesting and useful to N.P. students . . . . "

Notes:

This page was last revised in July 1999, and reformatted in Feb. 2003.

Amy Rosenbaum-Welsh came to UCSF through the Master's Entry Program in Nursing (MEPN) in 1993. At graduation, she received the Outstanding Master of Science Student Award at the 1996 School of Nursing Commencement (graduation ceremony).

Amy is now a dual-certified family and pediatric nurse practitioner at a community clinic (and its satellite school-based teen health center) in San Diego, California.

David, pictured here with mom, is her heart's delight.

I. Health Information Gateways

• Doctor's Guide to the Internet
• MEDSCAPE
• Martindale's [Extensive] Health-Science Guide
• HealthFinder.gov
• CliniWeb International, OHSU
• Yahoo! Health Page
• Medical Matrix  
• MEDLINEplus, National Library of Medicine

II. Nurse Practitioner/Nursing Resources

• NursingCenter formerly "Nurse Practitioner" journal
• California Association for Nurse Practitioners
• American College of Nurse Practitioners
• American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
• National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties
• National Assoc. of Pediatric Nurse Associates/Practitioners
• NP Central
• Nurse Practitioner Alternative, Inc.
• ANPACC Listserv (alt.) Advcd. Nursing Practice in Acute/Critical Care
• National Institute of Nursing Research, NIH
• Resources for Nurses and Families, Univ. Central Florida

III. Clinical Practice Guidelines

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
• Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines, Dr. Peter Sam, UCSF
• UCSD Practice Guidelines Online

IV. Primary Care

• VOLC-R Primary Care Resources on the Internet
• Mental Health Net
• Arthritis Foundation
• Diabetes Net
• DiversityRx: culturally competent health care
• Association of Clinicians for the Underserved
• National Rural Health Association
• American College of Preventive Medicine
• Dr. Rose's Peripheral Brain
• American Family Physician, online journal of AAFP
• New England Journal of Medicine
• AMA Publications (JAMA)
• Journal of Family Practice, Wayne State Univ., Michigan
• General Practice On-Line

V. Pediatrics

• Internet Resources for Advcd. Practice Pediatric Nurses, UCSF
• Pedinfo: A Pediatrics Web Server
• The General Pediatrician's View of the Internet
• Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics Online Community
• National Parent Information Network
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• Pediatrics, journal of the AAP
• Bright Futures Periodic Childhood Exam Guidelines
• National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health
• National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families
• KidsHealth.org

VI. Adolescent Health

• Adolescence Directory Online, Indiana University
• AMA Adolescent Health On-Line
• Society for Adolescent Medicine
• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Teenwire PPFA

VII. School-Based Health Care

• National Assembly on School-Based Health Care
• Ctr. for Health/Health Care in Schools
• Ctr. for School Mental Health Assistance, Univ. of Maryland
• Center for Mental Health in Schools, UCLA

VIII. Women's Health

• National Women's Health Information Center
• OBGYN.net
• Alan Guttmacher Institute
• IVF - Ob-Gyn Online Resources
• Allwise: Shared Wisdom for Women's Health
• Online Birth Center
• La Leche League International
• World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action
• Female Genital Mutilation Network

IX. HIV/AIDS

• HIV InSite: Gateway to AIDS Knowledge, UCSF
• The Body
• Critical Path AIDS Project
• CDC Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
• CDC HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report
• Association of Nurses in AIDS Care
• HIV InfoWeb
• AIDSdot Org
• Project Inform

X. Complementary and Alternative Health Care

• Office of Alternative Medicine, NIH
• American Assoc. of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine
• Alternative Medicine Homepage
• Acupuncture.com

XI. Case Studies and Interactive Tutorials

• The Virtual Hospital, University of Iowa
• Geriatrics Education Project, University of Florida
• The Auscultation Assistant, UCLA
• Short Rounds, Stanford University
• WebPath, University of Utah.

XII. Evidence-Based Health Care

• CEBM or CEBM: Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford University
• Evidence-Based Health Informatics, McMaster University

XIII. Government Agencies

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
• National Institutes of Health
• Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (DHHS)
• Health Resources and Services Administration, DHHS
• Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, DHHS

XIV. Pharmacology

• PharmInfoNet, Pharmaceutical Information Network
• RxList, Internet Drug Index
• Pediatric Pharmacotherapy Newsletter, Medscape

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