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Mirsky's Best

Welcome to the Mirsky's Best page!
Z. MirskyThis is my attempt at introducing nursing professionals to varied web sites of interest. I've selected topics that might interest nurses and other healthcare professionals.

These categories include distance education sites, professional organizations and funding opportunities, daily news and events files, and clinical practice sites. Last review -- Nov. 1999.

Please email me at zina.mirsky@nursing.ucsf.edu 
if you have questions or suggestions.


ZINA MIRSKY, R.N., Ed.D., IS AN ASSOCIATE DEAN AT UCSF SCHOOL OF NURSING.

Virtual Library - New York Regents College
Check the Nursing section
Harnessing Educational Technology - Education Commission of the States
Harnessing Educational Technology for Teaching and Learning is a resource guide, designed to strengthen policymakers' understanding of several pressing educational technology issues, including teacher professional development, classroom methods and materials, technology infrastructure and funding.
FEDIX Opportunity Alert
A free email service (from the RAMS-FIE corporation) that automatically delivers research and education funding opportunities within your specific areas of interest.
OnLine-Ed page
The OnLine-Ed interest group at the University of Melbourne (Australia) as designed a service to foster awareness in Online Education, emphasizing the use of the World Wide Web.
This page offers you the opportunity to subscribe to a moderated mailing list where you can receive e-mail synopses of articles and discussions related to teaching online. The faculty at the University of Melbourne also provide links to other on-line university courses and catalogues.
"Distance Education FAQ Page"
The faculty of the Instructional Technology Department at the University of Houston Clear Lake have developed this FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) page to support the emerging new field of online education.
I most highly recommend this site because of its excellent links, one of my favorite site requirements! The extensive links permit you to review distance education organizations & institutes; issues; web based instruction; online journals; and other educational links.
Gina Long, a graduate of our UCSF nursing doctoral program, discovered it and recommended it to me.

Do you have any favorite URLs that you want to call to my attention? I'll gladly review and recommend (or not!) those forwarded to me, and will give you credit for your sleuthing!

"CliniWeb" - Oregon Health Sciences University 
Add this one to your bookmarks right away! CliniWeb was developed provide quick and easy access to biomedical information on the World-wide Web (WWW). It is particularly focused on the information of interest to health care professions students and practitioners. The information has been organized using the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) disease classification, with rapid access provided by both searching and browsing. 
"WhatIs?com" an Internet glossary. 
If you are like me, and want to know what terms and acronyms really "mean", take a look at this site. Updated daily, it provides a novice and expert alike with definitions, information, and references. 
Distance Education at a Glance, a series of guides.
If you would like an overview of the many forms and and approaches to distance education, please visit this series of guides produced by Dr. Barry Willis and his staff at the University of Idaho. They offer a program called "Outreach Engineering" which permits the achievement of graduate degrees in engineering...without ever seeing the University of Idaho campus! These faculty have developed these guides for fellow faculty who wish to engage in distance education, and for students in their programs. 
"Shattering the Silences: Minority Professors break into the Ivory Tower" from PBS 
Florence Nightingale page from Country Joe McDonald 
Reuters Health News 
Earlier Additions 
N-248 documents 
Uncle Sam guide to the U.S. government 
Grant/Review Schedule from DHHS Health Resources and Services Administration 
Stanford HealthLink from Stanford Univ. Med. Center News Bureau 
LearnNet from the Federal Communications Commission 
Total News all the news on the net 
Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society 
Sigma Theta Tau International, Alpha Eta Chapter (#29) at UCSF School of Nursing 
Medical Breakthrough News from Ivanhoe 
Health Care Information on the Web from Health Services Research 
The Copyright Website, copyright and "fair use" information 
Journals 
Medscape 
American Medical Assoc. (AMA) Home Page 
SCIENCE On-Line 
Nature 
Medical journals 
Science -- Beyond the Printed Page 
PoliticsNow 
Clinical Applications 
Point Communications --> Health 
ProMED 
Virtual Hospital 
Virtual Medical Center - Martindale's Health Science Guide 
Martindale's 'The Reference Desk' 
Emerging Infectious Diseases 
Medical Matrix: Guide to Internet Clinical Medicine Resources 
Distance Education Applications 
Bibliographic Formats for Citing Electronic Information 
AcademicNet Home Page 
Center For Advanced Technology in Education 
Distance Learning Technology 
AAAS Copyright Forum 
Distance Education Clearinghouse 
VIRTUAL PLANET Main Menu 
Instructional Strategies for Two-Way Video 
News 
Online Newspapers 
News from Yahoo! 
NewsLink 
General Interest 
W.H. Calvin's SCIENCE SURF 
Counsel Connect Web 
A.Word.A.Day--Words 
Ethics Updates 
HyperDoc - US National Library of Medicine 
Organizations / Policies 
The Federal Register 
NIH National Institute for Nursing Research 
NIH GUIDE INDEX 
Center for Disease Control (CDC) Home Page 
WHO Nursing Board 
World Health Organization WWW Home Page 
WICHE Western Interstate Commission For Higher Education 
The Western Governors University 
Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications 
California Virtual University 
American Association for Higher Education 
AAMC Events and News: AAMC STAT - Short, Topical, And Timely News 

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