Chuck Pitkofsky, MS, RN

LISTSERVS

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• To find out how a listserv like GLOBALRN works, check out our explanation file. It includes tips on netiquette, setting your account to digest or "no mail" and other helpful hints for joining the discussion on a listserv.
• For a comprehensive list of nursing discussion lists, try Judy Norris's NURSENET homepage.
• Anthro-L is a general anthropology mailing list. To subscribe, send mail to listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu with a message body containing the line:
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SEARCH ENGINES

• There are many capable search engines out there on the Internet, such as Yahoo, Excite, and Lycos. They each can get varying results for the same search string, so it makes sense to use several search engines to find information on the Internet. Luckily, several search sites have gathered together multiple search engines at one site. Both the BRS Ultimate Search Page and Search.com are good places to start. Metacrawler at the University of Washington will search using the main search engines with just one entry. A nice collection of health care related resources can be found at the Hardin Meta Directory at the University of Iowa. If you need to track down phone numbers or e-mail addresses for people, try the Infospace site.

NURSING RESOURCES

• Nursing Theory This is a web page focused on the various nursing theorists, maintained by Judy Norris of NURSENET fame.
• The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) is a great place to start when searching for health care related resources or information.
• Why re-create the wheel? The Association of Operating Room Nurses (AORN) has a great site which lists nursing and health care related resources the net.

CROSS CULTURAL RESOURCES

• The Pan American Health Organization's (PAHO) basic task "is to collaborate with Ministries of Health, social security agencies, other government institutions, nongovernmental organizations, universities, community groups, and many others to strengthen national and local health systems and to improve the health of the peoples of the Americas."
• The Central Intellingence Agency (CIA) has a comprehesive site called The World Factbook, which contains fact sheets on countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
• The Virtual Tourist page is a map-based directory of all the WWW servers in the world. On the same page, you can access the Virtual Tourist II, which is a map-based guide to local and regional information on the net.
• The Transcultural Nursing Society maintains a page at the site of the American Journal of Nursing
• EthnoMed Home Page This site contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other related issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants to Seattle, many of whom are refugees fleeing war-torn parts of the world. There is a very complete cross-cultural bibliography at this site, compiled by Melinda Mich and Noel Chrisman at the School of Nursing.
• A great bibliography for Hispanic health care issues can be found at the University of Texas Health Science Library. The Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Community Medicine, has designed an on-line Hispanic Health Course. This course is designed for pre-clinical or clinical medical students, and any other health professional interested in learning about the health of Hispanic subpopulations in the United States and abroad.
• The World Village Project Looks at world demographics based on a village of 1000 people
• U.S. Census Bureau Home Page has some very powerful demographic data available on-line. Their Data Maps provide an easy graphical interface for gathering population statistics for the U.S.
• The Global Health Network (GHNet) is an alliance of experts in health and telecommunications who are actively developing the architecture for a health information structure for the prevention of disease in the 21st century.
• Diversity Rx A place to discover how language and culture affect the delivery of quality health services to ethnically diverse populations.
• The home page of the World Health Organization (WHO) offers a broad range of resources, including statistics, publications, and travel reports

DIVERSITY RESOURCES

• A description and transcript of the PBS program, Shattering the Silences, is available from this PBS web site. This 90-minute documentary explored issues of faculty diversity in American higher education in the mid-1990s, and focused on the experiences of eight minority scholars in the humanities and social sciences at a wide range of institutions. There are some great diversity references on the resources page linked to the "Shattered" program site.
• Take a look at the Diversity WWW page for the Unviersity of California at San Francisco. Perspectives of differences is a curriculum that teaches the principles of diversity and cross-cultural medicine. UCSF also has a site called Perspectives of Difference (PODS), which focuses on the need for instruction on issues of diversity and cross-cultural training across all health professional programs. The PODS module was originated and written by Melissa Welch, MD, MPH in the Division of General Internal Medicine, and includes case vignettes, cultural competence terms/concepts, and other links to cultural resources.
• The Just Cause Home Page works towards the elimination of prejudice and hate. A basic tenet of their philosophy is that, until we learn to accept each other -- differences and all, we can never hope to realize the fullness of our potential as human beings. Their unique media campaigns encourage diversity and work to promote tolerance and understanding among culturally diverse groups.
• The Anti-Defamation League provides training and resources to combat discrimination and "isms" in the USA and world-wide.
• The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has a great page on civil rights of various groups that they have worked with.

ALTERNATIVE HEALING

• The Southwest School of Botanical Medicine has a collection of resources related to the medicinal use of herbs, including many images and herb folios.
• The WWW site of Alchemical Medicine Research and Teaching Association (AMRTA), works to embrace and weave together the intuitive and the technical, ancient traditions and modern science. They have the goal of providing service and aiding the healing of both individual humans and the institutions of medicine.

NOTEWORTHY

• CULTURE AND NURSING CARE: A Pocket Guide has won the AJN Book of the Year Award! This book was edited by Juliene G. Lipson, RN, PhD, FAAN, Suzanne L. Dibble, RN, DNSc, and Pamela A. Minarik, RN, MS, FAAN, and offers practicing nurses a snapshot of human diversity. Each chapter outlines issues related to health and illness, symptom expression, self-care, birth, death, religion, family participation in care, among other topics.
• Looking for an obscure book? Search by title, author or subject at Amazon Books for an amazing diversity of titles.
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FEEDBACK

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Chuck Pitkofsky, RN, MS

School of Nursing
University of California San Francisco
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