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Mirsky's Best

Welcome to the Mirsky's Best page!
Z. Mirsky This 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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