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Aboriginal Health
Aging and Health
Anatomy
  • Atlas of the Body - American Medical Association
    Browse this atlas of the human body by major section (brain, circulatory system, muscles, respiratory system, nervous system, or female reproductive system), or by subsections such as the hand or skull.
  • Gray's Anatomy - Bartleby.com
    The classic illustrated text of human anatomy (20th edition, 1918) is now available online. It is fully searchable by keyword, table of contents, or subject index containing 13,000 entries.
  • The Visible Human Project - National Library of medicine
    It is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies. Acquisition of transverse CT, MR and cryosection images of representative male and female cadavers has been completed.
Associations

Canada

United States

International
Career
  • Career Guide - Sigma Theta Tau International Honour Society of Nursing
    STTI's Career Map is a directory of links to all aspects of career management including selecting a nursing program,employment and placement, research opportunities, continuing education, self assessment and mentoring.
  • Nursing as a Career - Canadian Nursing Association
  • Commission on graduates from foreign nursing schools - U.S.
    "The Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS) is an immigration-neutral, non-profit organization and internationally recognized authority on credentials evaluation pertaining to the education, registration, and licensure of nurses and other healthcare professionals worldwide."
  • International Nursing - Canadian Nursing Association
  • Nursing workforce statistics - Canadian Nursing Association
  • Our Health, Our Future: Creating Quality Workplaces for Canadian Nurses - Canadian Nursing Advisory Committee, Health Canada
    "This report describes in detail why Canada needs more nurses and better working conditions for nurses."

 
Clinical Practice Guidelines
  • AGREE (Appraisal of Guidelines Research & Evaluation) - UK
    "The purpose of the Appraisal of Guidelines Research & Evaluation (AGREE) Instrument is to provide a
    framework for assessing the quality of clinical practice guidelines."
  • Best Practice Guidelines - Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
  • Clinical Practice Guidelines - Alberta Medical Association
  • CMA Infobase: clinical practice guidelines - Canadian Medical Association
    "These guidelines are produced or endorsed in Canada by a national, provincial/territorial or regional medical or health organization, professional society, government agency or expert panel."
  • Guidelines - Public Health Agency of Canada
    A list of guidelines on the following topics: Biosafety; Cancer; Hepatitis C; HIV/AIDS; Infection Control; Laboratory; Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI); Travel Health/Quarantine; Tuberculosis (TB); and Vaccines and Vaccine-Preventable Diseases.
  • Guidelines Finder - National Electronic Library for Health, UK
    "The Guidelines Finder provides an index to clinical guidelines and currently holds details of over 1300 UK national guidelines with links to Internet downloadable versions of the guidelines. It is updated on a weekly basis."
  • How to Use a Clinical Practice Guideline - Center for Health Evidence, Canada
    "In this article, we offer suggestions for deciding whether to use a clinical practice guideline in formulating one's own clinical policies. Our focus is on evaluation of interventions, including prevention, diagnosis, and therapy, that are designed to improve important patient outcomes. For prevention and diagnosis, this involves looking beyond the accuracy of the test to the ultimate consequences of choosing a diagnostic strategy on patients' morbidity, mortality, and health-related quality of life."
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
    "The National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC) is a comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents." It includes guideline abstracts, full-text guidelines, PDA downloads, guideline comparisons and an annotated bibliography on guidelines.
  • Recommended Clinical Practice Guidelines - Guideline Advisory Committee (GAC), Ontario
    The Ontario Guidelines Advisory Committee (GAC), a joint body of the Ontario Medical Association and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. The scroll down menu located on the left side of the homepage is the most direct way of accessing an alphabetized list GAC recommended guidelines.
  • What are Clinical Practice Guidelines? - University of Minnesota, U.S.
  • What makes a good Clinical Guideline? - Evidence Based Medicine, UK
Community
Determinants of Health

Dictionaries
Diseases & Disorders
Drug Information
  • Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide (Trent electronic book subscription)
  • Centre for Drug Evaluation and Research - U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  • e-CPS - The Canadian Pharmacists Association's online Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties . The eCPS contains thousands of Health Canada–approved drug monographs, links to Health Canada advisories, printable information for patients, searchable product images and more.
  • Drug Information Resources: A Guide for Pharmacists - Dalhousie University
  • Drug Information - MedlinePlus
    "Information on thousands of prescription and over-the-counter medications is provided through two drug resources -- MedMaster" , a product of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), and the USP DI® Advice for the Patient® !, a product of the United States Pharmacopoeia (USP)."
  • Drug Product Database - Health Canada
    "Health Canada's Therapeutic Products Program me (TPP) is the national authority that evaluates and monitors the safety, effectiveness, and quality of drugs, medical devices and other therapeutic products available to Canadians."
  • Institute for Safe Medication Practices - Canada
    "The Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada is an independent Canadian non-profit agency established for the collection and analysis of medication error reports and the development of recommendations for the enhancement of patient safety."
  • Natural Health Products Directorate - Health Canada
    "Staffed by those with expertise and experience in natural health products this organization will develop a regulatory framework for products such as herbal remedies, vitamin and mineral supplements, traditional Chinese medicines, Ayurvedic medicines, and homeopathic preparations."
  • Pharmacology Math - Department of Nursing Education, San Antonio College
    This online tutorial covers common conversion factors and equivalencies, abbreviations, ratios and proportions, IV and titration, and pediatric pharmacology math. Once you have completed the tutorial, there are online quizzes you can take, with automatic grading.
Education
Environmental Health
Ethics
  • Center for Ethics and Human Rights - American Nurses Association
    In this section of ANA's web site you will find the ANA Code of Ethics, ANA Position Statements and links to other useful web sites about bioethics, end of life issues, medical ethics and patients rights, and spiritual and religious issues.
  • Applied ethics resources on the web (EthicsWeb.ca)
    Originally developed by the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia, this web site. provides links to ethics web sites from business ethics to research and healthcare ethics.
  • Nursing Ethics - Canadian Nurses Association
    In this section of the CNA you will find links to documents such as the Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses
  • Nursing Ethics.ca
    On this web site you will find information about nursing ethics books and articles as well as links to other Canadian and International ethics web sites.
Evidence Based Practice
  • Cochrane Collaboration
    "The Cochrane Collaboration is an international non-profit and independent organisation, dedicated to making up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of healthcare readily available worldwide. It produces and disseminates systematic reviews of healthcare interventions and promotes the search for evidence in the form of clinical trials and other studies of interventions." For more information see their Newcomers' guide. You can search the Cochrane Reviews through Ovid.
  • Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre - McMaster University
  • Centre for Evidence Based Nursing - University of York, United Kingdom
  • Centre for Healthcare Evidence - University of Alberta
    "The Centre for Health Evidence promotes evidence-based health care by presenting knowledge-based resources to health professionals in ways that facilitate their optimum use." On this web site. is a link to the User's Guide to Evidence Based Practice , originally published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, where you will find articles including "A User's Guide to Qualitative Research in Health Care."
  • Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't - British Medical Journal (BMJ)
    Written by David L. Sackett in 1996 this article provides a good overview of Evidence Based Medicine.
  • Evidence Based Nursing - Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, University Health Network, Toronto
    This web site. provides a good overview of Evidence Based Nursing and includes some very useful samples of clinical scenarios with search strategies and worksheets within the contexts of diagnosis, prognosis, therapy, harm, qualitative research, and systematic reviews.
  • Evidence Based Nursing (EBN) Online Journal
  • Evidence Based Practice - Healthlinks, University of Washington
    On this web site. you will find information on 'evidence calculators' including pretest probability, likelihood ratios, and numbers need to treat. On this site you can also learn about evidence based tools and how to construct a well-built clinical question.
  • How to read a paper -British Medical Journal
    A collection of BMJ articles by T. Greenhalgh including, "Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research)", "Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses)" and "Assessing the methodological quality of published papers."
Family
  • Best Start: Ontario's Maternal Newborn and Early Child Development Resource Centre
    "We are a provincial resource centre that seeks to enhance the capacity of service providers to implement effective health promotion programs for expectant and new parents (including both mom and dad), newborns and young children." On this site you'll find brochures for parents and useful documents for health care practitioners on several topics including abuse during pregnancy, breastfeeding, and sexual health.
  • Breastfeeding Best Practice Guidelines for Nurses - RNAO Best Practice Guideline
    "The purpose of this guideline is to improve breastfeeding outcomes for mothers and infants, to assist practitioners to apply the best available research evidence to clinical decisions, and to promote the responsible use of health care resources."
  • Division of Childhood and Adolescence - Public Health Agency of Canada
    A gateway to numerous web sites, publications, programmes, research and organizations regarding pregnancy, infancy, adolescents, family and parenting.
  • The Family-Centred Maternity and Newborn Care: National Guidelines, G Edition - Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Growing Health Canadians- A guide for positive Child Development
    "This guide was created to promote and illustrate a simple idea: that the healthy development of children and youth is a shared responsibility." The web site is divided into two broad categories; Life transitions and Contributors to Healthy Child Development. The guide highlights four transition points: Transition to the first year, Transition to school, Transition to adolescence, and Transition to adulthood. The guide also examines the following contributors: family, schools, community, workplace, and government.
  • National Clearing House on Family Violence - Public Health Agency of Canada
    On this web site you'll find publications about family violence issues as well as links to other community, provincial, national or international organizations.
  • Supporting and Strengthening Families Through Expected and Unexpected Life Events - RNAO Best Practice Guideline
    " The overall goal of the guideline is to assist nurses in promoting family health through interventions and supports provided during expected (i.e. birth, school, adolescence, aging, and death) as well as unexpected (i.e. trauma/accidents, chronic illness, developmental delay and disability) life events."
Government

Canada

United States

 

Ontario

International

 
Health
  • Health Canada Online - Just for you
    "These specialized pages offer information on the crucial health issues that affect you while pointing out Health Canada educational kits that can help you improve your health practices."
  • HealthyOntario.com - Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
    "This site contains thousands of pages of original content, health assessment tools, health and medical information, healthcare services available in Ontario, and links to other Ontario health and wellness Web sites."
  • MedlinePlus - U.S. National Library of Medicine
    Designed for both health professionals and consumers, MEDLINEplus provides access to extensive information about specific diseases and conditions and also has links to, consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health, interactive health tutorials, dictionaries, lists of hospitals and physicians, health information in Spanish and other languages, and clinical trials.
  • Merck Manual Home Edition
    "Based on The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, The Home Edition transforms the language of the professionals' version into commonly used English." It not only includes text on diseases and disorders, it provides multimedia resources including animations, video, photographs, and audio recordings.
Health Promotion
  • Canadian Best Practices Portal for Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention
  • Centre of Health Promotion - University of Toronto
    " The Centre for Health Promotion is a community-academic partnership. It commits to excellence in education, evaluation and research. In a multi-disciplinary, collaborative context it activates, develops and evaluates innovative health promotion approaches in Canada and abroad. "
  • Chronic Disease Prevention Ontario - A custom search engine that searches over 1500 prevention program sources in Ontario
  • Health Promotion - Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto
  • Health Promotion - World Health Organization
  • Health Promotion Information - Custom search engine for health promotion information sources. Searches over 60 selected resources.
  • Health Promotion - Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Ontario Health Promotion Resource System (OHPRS)
    "The OHPRS is a network of organizations that support people and organizations doing health promotion work in Ontario." On this site you will find information about OHPRS members, brochures and other publications such as "A Review of the Literature on the Links Between Health Promotion Capacity Building and Health Outcomes."
  • Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse (OPC)
    "The The Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse (OPC) facilitates and empowers individuals, groups and communities to work towards the realization of their social, emotional, physical and environmental health and well-being." Their Centre of Health Promotion Resources provides information on: Resources such as fact sheets, e-mail bulletins, links to other relevant sites; Consultation services that provide free information, advice and support through short-term and in-depth consultations on health promotion strategies, program planning and development, sustainability, using information technologies, organizational development and community mobilization; Learning events around health promotion strategies, organizational development and community mobilization; and Projects and initiatives such as the The Health Determinants Partnership, Making Connections Project .
  • POHEM: Population Health Model - Statistics Canada
    "POHEM is a longitudinal microsimulation model of health and disease. Using equations and sub-models developed at Statistics Canada as well as drawn from the medical literature, the model simulates representative populations and allows the rational comparison of competing health intervention alternatives, in a framework that captures the effects of disease interactions."
  • Population Health Promotion: An Integrated Model of Population Health and Health Promotion - Public Health Agency of Canada
Healthcare - Canada
  • Canada Health Act
  • Canadian Institute of Health Information(CIHI)
    "The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) is an independent, not-for-profit organization that provides essential data and analysis on Canada’s health system and the health of Canadians." The reports and data in this website focus on health care services, health spending, health human resources, and population health.
  • Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada - Romanow Report - Health Canada
    "The Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada will make recommendations on sustaining a publicly-funded health system that balances investments in prevention and health maintenance with those directed to care and treatment."
  • Health Care in Canada - Canadian Institute of Health Information
    This annually updated report covers topics including the outcomes of care, health expenditures and Canada's health care professionals. Included with this report is a Health Indicators insert, providing new data on a range of health and health system-related indicators at both regional and provincial/territorial levels.
Healthcare - Primary
  • Enhancing Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Primary Health Care (EICP) - Conference Board of Canada
    "The purpose of the EICP Initiative is to enhance the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of the delivery of primary health care in Canada. The objective, in this first phase, is to develop a set of guiding principles and a framework that will better define the relationship between the client/patient and the practitioners who comprise the primary health care system."
  • Primary Healthcare - Canadian Health Services Research Foundation
    On this web site you'll find a definition, information about research activities and links to several research reports.
  • Primary Health Care - Health Canada
    This web site provides the following information : About Primary Health Care - what it is and how it can support Canadians in maintaining and improving their health; Primary Health Care and Health System Renewal - its potential to address other health care system issues, including waiting lists and emergency room overcrowding; and Primary Health Care Transition Fund - information on this $800M Government of Canada program to support primary health care reform (all funding has been allocated and no further funding is available).
  • Primary Health Care - Canadian Nurses Association
    This web sites provides information regarding CNAs position on The Role of the Nurse in Primary Health Care; Comprehensive School Health; and Health Promotion. You will also find links to publications such as Primary Health Care: A New Approach to Health Care Reform.
History
Illness Experience
  • Bereavement - MedlinePlus, US National Library of Medicine
    A lengthy list of mostly consumer oriented web sites from various organizations and associations.
  • Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association
    "The Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA) is the national association which provides leadership in hospice palliative care in Canada." The web site provides information about hospice palliative care services in Canada, initiatives and research, advocacy, interest groups, caregivers and includes publications such asA Model to Guide Hospice Palliative Care: Based On National Principles and Norms of Practice.
  • Canadian Virtual Hospice
    "The Canadian Virtual Hospice is an interactive network designed to facilitate information exchange, communication, and mutual support between and among patients, their friends and family, health care providers, and palliative care volunteers." On this web site, once you have registered (at no charge), you will find information on researching projects and funding opportunities, courses and conferences, programs, and a collection of reports and documents prepared by Canadian and international governments and associations.
  • Caregivers - MedlinePlus, US National Library of Medicine
    A lengthy list of mostly consumer oriented web sites from various organizations and associations. Also included are links to US statistics and to the National Institutes of Health clinical trials regarding caregiving.
  • Caregiving Strategies for Older Adults with Delirium, Dementia and Depression - RNAO Best Practice Guideline
    "This best practice guideline focuses on assisting all nurses (RNs and RPNs) who provide care to clients with delirium, dementia and depression in the acute, long-term and community care settings. This guideline incorporates best practices related to caregiving strategies of older adult aged 65 years and older with delirium, dementia and depression."
  • Chronic Disease Management - Government of British Columbia
    This site contains information about the latest developments in chronic disease management in B.C.
  • End of Life Issues - MedlinePlus, US National Library of Medicine
    A lengthy list of mostly consumer oriented web sites from various organizations and associations. Also included are links to US statistics.
  • The Human Journey - finding comfort in serious illness - Division of Palliative Care, University of British Columbia
    The virtual representation of a public forum that provides information about palliative support. On this site is event information, past years presentations from various persons involved in end-of-life care and links to other web sites and articles related to palliative care.
  • Living Lessons - Canada
    "Living Lessons is a national initiative to increase awareness of hospice palliative care and end-of-life care services in Canada. The campaign is presented in partnership with the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA) and The GlaxoSmithKline Foundation." On this web site you find resources for caregivers, patients and health care providers including FAQs, links to related organizations, and publications such as A Guide for Caregivers .
  • Living with Cancer - MedlinePlus, US National Library of Medicine
    A lengthy list of mostly consumer oriented web sites from various organizations and associations. Also included are links to clinical trials and research news.
  • Living with Disabilities - Public Health Agency of Canada
    "This web site provides resources for and about people of all ages with physical or cognitive disabilities. Material is selected from well-respected organizations serving people with disabilities across Canada."
  • Palliative and End-of-Life Care - Health Canada
    This site includes information and reports related to palliative care such as the Canadian Strategy on Palliative and End-of-Life Care.
  • Supporting Self-Care: The Contribution of Nurses and Physicians - Health Canada
    " Health Canada presents the results of a study exploring how health care professionals can support or stimulate people's self-care efforts.  This report will be of particular interest to physicians and nurses as it is based primarily on their colleagues' experiences and insights. Stimulating examples illustrate how health care professionals help their patients and clients increase control over their own health and offer glimpses of real-life situations."
  • Supporting and Strengthening Families Through Expected and Unexpected Life Events - RNAO Best Practice Guideline
    "The overall goal of the guideline is to assist nurses in promoting family health through interventions and supports provided during expected (i.e. birth, school, adolescence, aging, and death) as well as unexpected (i.e. trauma/accidents, chronic illness, developmental delay and disability) life events."
Informatics
Nursing Leadership
  • Canadian Nursing Leadership Study - University of Western Ontario
    "The overall goal of this study is to profile nursing leadership/management structures in current Canadian hospitals by examining the organizational and structural characteristics of nursing management roles in 67 teaching and community hospitals. This study will also examine how nursing leadership roles in hospital settings across Canada have changed and the factors that are important in enabling nurse leaders to perform their roles."
  • Developing and Sustaining Nursing Leadership - Registered Nurses' Associatino of Ontario
  • Dorothy M. Wylie Nursing Leadership Institute (DMW-NLI) - Canada
    "The DMW-NLI was established to: Promote the assessment, acquisition and development of a set of core leadership competencies appropriate to the times and settings in which nurse leaders practice; Support participants to apply concepts in real life situations through reflective learning; and Identify emergent nurse leaders and leadership aspirants, and begin a concrete and deliberate process for nurturing their development." On this web site you will find information about the institute, upcoming events, partners, as well as a research database listing project descriptions and contact information.
  • Evaluation Study of a Leadership Development Intervention for Nurses - Change Foundation, Ontario
    "The main purpose of this study was to increase our understanding of the effectiveness of leadership development interventions for nurses. The study objective was to empirically determine immediate through long-term effects of the Dorothy M. Wylie Nursing Leadership Institute. Descriptive statistics for all outcomes at all four evaluation periods throughout the study are reported."
  • Nursing Leadership Position Statement - Canadian Nurses Association
  • Nursing Leadership, Organization and Policy - Canadian Health Services Research Foundation
    This web site is a gateway to information about nursing research funded by CHSRF including research reports, research in progress, awards and funding opportunities.
  • Nursing Leadership Network of Ontario - Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario
Nursing in Canada
PDA
  • Health Sciences Resources for your PDA - University of Alberta
    A collection of links to information on PDA resources including: Textbooks; Drug Handbooks; Calculators; Current Awareness; Clinical Decision Rules and Practice Guidelines; Patient Tracking; Prescribing; For Your Patients; Portal Sites; and Subject Specialty Sites including Nursing.
  • PDA Cortex - The Journal of Mobile Informatics
    A commercial web site and online journal dedicated to the use of mobile computing in nursing. On these pages nurses and all members of the healthcare team, can keep abreast of the changes in Mobile Informatics, and collaborate to advance Mobile Computing in healthcare.
Research
  • Canadian Association for Nursing Research
    This site contains information about the association as well as some links to related web sites such as funding organizations and research centres.
  • Canadian Institute of Health Information(CIHI)
    "The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) is an independent, not-for-profit organization that provides essential data and analysis on Canada’s health system and the health of Canadians." The reports and data in this website focus on health care services, health spending, health human resources, and population health.
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
  • Canadian-International Nurse Researcher Database
    A voluntary database of nurse researchers in the academic and clinical setting. Note that this database is not actually available on the web. This web site lists the kind of information available through the database and the contact information for requests of information.
  • Joanna Briggs Institute - Australia
    The Joanna Briggs Institute is an initiative of Royal Adelaide Hospital and the University of Adelaide. The Institute provides "a collaborative approach to the evaluation of evidence derived from a diverse range of sources, including experience, expertise and all forms of rigorous research and the translation, transfer and utilization of the 'best available' evidence into health care practice." Many resources are available only to member institutions, although some Systematic Reviews and Best Practices Information Sheets are freely available.
  • Nursing Leadership, Organization and Policy - Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF)
    This web site is a gateway to information about nursing research funded by CHSRF including research reports, research in progress, awards and funding opportunities.
  • National Institute of Nursing Research - United States.
  • NurseScribe
    A list of links to web sites about grants, research centres, qualitative analysis software, research design, research instruments, and statistics.
  • Nursing Health Services Research Unit (NHSRU) - University of Toronto & McMaster University
    "The overall purpose of this research unit is three-fold: 1) To investigate the appropriate supply, distribution and deployment of nurses and how to enable nurses to meet their responsibilities as a result of restructuring in the health care system; 2) To determine methods to maintain quality while realizing funding efficiencies in the health care system; 3) Provide the MOHLTC with the basic information needed to make necessary changes to HHR practices in Ontario." On this web site you'll find information about NHSRU and links to working papers, fact sheets, reports and a list of published articles.
  • Nursing Leadership, Organization and Policy - Canadian Health Services Research Foundation
  • QualPage: Resources for Qualitative Research - University of Georgia
    This web site is all about Qualitative Research. It is not specific to the nursing discipline but it contains numerous links to conferences, call for papers, research, methods, software and teaching resources.
  • Registry of Nursing Research - Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI)
    On this web site there is information about conferences, calls for papers, funding and granting opportunities, and other research resources such as the "STTI Global Health and Nursing Research Priorities Resource Paper" and "Global Health and Nursing Research Priorities Resource Paper. "
  • Research Network - International Council of Nurses (ICN), Switzerland
    "The ICN Research Network will serve as a forum for exchange of ideas, experience and expertise and as a vital resource bank for global nursing and health research." On the web site are links to information on research (e.g. credentialing), to the article "Understanding and Implementing Clinical Nursing Research", and fact sheets such as Nursing Research: A Tool for Action.
  • Royal College of Nursing Research & Development Coordinating Centre - United Kingdom
    "This web site provides a shell or framework for sharing information about research networks, policy issues, governance, funding, training & support units, dissemination and practice development." On this web site you will find links to conferences, call for papers, bibliographies and research networks.
Rural Health
Social/Political Action
  • Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPPA)
    "The CCPA is an independent, non-partisan research institute concerned with issues of social and economic justice."
  • Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions
    "We pressure the federal government to recognize the professional skills and knowledge that nurses bring to our jobs. We also push them to recognize the caring, human touch nurses bring which is so important to patients' healing. We work to make sure nurses' and patients' priorities are reflected in health and budgetary policy and when national politicians talk “health.”
  • Canadian Health Coalition
    "The Canadian Health Coalition is dedicated to preserving and enhancing Canada’s public health system for the benefit of all Canadians. Founded in 1979, the coalition includes organizations representing unions, seniors, women, students, consumers and health care professionals from across Canada."
  • Canadian Council on Social Development
  • Centre for Social Justice - Canada
    "Narrowing the gap between income, wealth and power." "The Centre for Social Justice is an advocacy organization that seeks to strengthen the struggle for social justice." On this web site is some information about social determinants of health.
  • Council of Canadians
    "Strictly non-partisan, the Council lobbies Members of Parliament, conducts research, and runs national campaigns aimed at putting some of the country's most important issues into the spotlight" including healthcare.
  • Nurse Active - Nova Scotia
    This page is the personal effort of Charlene and Bill Long, registered nurses in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. It is "A home page for nurses dedicated to trade unionism, social justice and political action." On this web site you will find a compilation of articles about nursing, social policy, political action and links to related organizations and associations.
  • Ontario Health Coalition
    "The Ontario Health Coalition is a network of more than 400 organizations representing hundreds of thousands of individuals in all areas of Ontario. Our primary goal is to empower the members of our constituent organizations to become actively engaged in the making of public policy on matters related to health care and healthy communities."
  • Ontario Social Development Council
    "The Ontario Social Development Council is a province-wide, charitable organization which proposes and responds to social and economic policies and programs to ensure the protection and enhancement of fundamental human rights, dignity and well-being."
  • Political Action Resources - Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario
Statistics & Research Methods
  • For information about nursing research in general, associations, funding etc. see Research in the Year 1 section.
  • Case Studies - Colorado State University
    "This guide examines case studies, a form of qualitative descriptive research that is used to look at individuals, a small group of participants, or a group as a whole. Researchers collect data about participants using participant and direct observations, interviews, protocols, tests, examinations of records, and collections of writing samples. Starting with a definition of the case study, the guide moves to a brief history of this research method."
  • Clinical Significance Calculator - University of British Columbia
    Calculates Absolute Risk Reduction, Relative Risk Reduction, Number Needed to Treat, and Odds Ratio.
  • Clinical Stats Calculator - University of Toronto
    Performs calculations such as Sensitivity, Specificity, Relative Risk, Number Needed to Treat, Odds Ratio, and Relative Risk Reduction.
  • Electronic Statistics Textbook - StatSoft (producers of Statistica)
    "The Electronic Textbook begins with an overview of the relevant elementary (pivotal) concepts and continues with a more in depth exploration of specific areas of statistics, organized by "modules," accessible by buttons, representing classes of analytic techniques. A glossary of statistical terms and a list of references for further study are included."
  • Epidemiology for the Uninitiated - British Medical Journal (BMJ)
    This online book includes the following chapters: 1.What is epidemiology?; 2. Quantifying disease in populations; 3. Comparing disease rates; 4. Measurement error and bias; 5. Planning and conducting a survey; 6. Ecological studies; 7. Longitudinal studies; 8. Case-control and cross sectional studies; 9. Experimental studies; 10. Screening; 11. Outbreaks of disease; 12. Reading epidemiological reports.
  • Ethnography, Observational Research, and Narrative Inquiry - Colorado State University
    "This guide attempts to acknowledge the broad categories of qualitative observational research. First, qualitative observational research is broken down into its most common approaches, including types of this research method, themes that guide researchers' study designs and other, secondary approaches. Next, a Methods section introduces steps and methods used in qualitative observational research, employing multiple methods and computer software for this field of research. Then, a Commentary section includes some of the advantages and disadvantages to qualitative observational research, a look at the ongoing qualitative vs. quantitative discussion and some of the ethical considerations of this form of research."
  • Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Research - Colorado State University
  • QualPage: Resources for Qualitative Research - University of Georgia
    This web site is all about Qualitative Research. It is not specific to the nursing discipline but it contains numerous links to conferences, call for papers, research, methods, software and teaching resources.
  • Statistics and Research Methods - British Medical Journal (BMJ)
    A collection of articles published in BMJ since 1999 that are descriptions or examples of various types of statistics and research methods. In this collection you will find descriptions and examples of Bayesian statistics, Qualitative Research, Randomized Controlled Trials, Systematic Reviews (incl meta-analyses), and other Statistics and Research Methods. (Note: on this page you will need to scroll down the list of Topic Collections to find this section.)
  • Statistics at Square 1 - British Medical Journal (BMJ)
    This online book includes the following chapters: 1. Data display and summary; 2. Mean and standard deviation; 3. Populations and samples; 4. Statements of probability and confidence intervals; 5. Differences between means: type I and type II errors and power; 6. Differences between percentag
Theory
  • The Nursing Theory Page - Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science, University of San Diego
    A selected list of links to web sites about or belonging to well known nursing theorists, theories, and models.
Transcultural Nursing
  • Culture Clues - University of Washington Medical Center
    On this site you'll find tip sheets for clinicians, designed to increase awareness about concepts and preferences of patients from diverse cultures.
  • EthnoMed - Harborview Medical Centre, University of Washington
    This site contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other related issues pertinent to the health care of immigrants.
  • Transcultural Nursing and Health Care Association - United Kingdom
  • Transcultural Nursing Society - United States
Tutorials
Indexes
Evidence Based Practice
    • Evidence Based Clinical Practice Tutorial - University of Rochester Medical Centre
      This tutorial assumes that you have a basic knowledge of what evidence-based health care is all about. It is a text based tutorial that describes how to design an answerable question and how to search the evidence.
    • Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine - Duke University Medical Center Library and Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      This interactive tutorial is intended for any health care practitioner or student who needs a basic introduction to the principles of Evidence-Based Medicine. Upon completion of this self-paced tutorial, you will be able to: define Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM); identify the parts of a well-built clinical question; identify EBM searching strategies that could improve MEDLINE retrieval; and identify key issues that help determine the validity of the results of a study. This tutorial is not designed to teach you how to search the literature.
World Wide Web
    • CHN Tutorial: Your Information Prescription - Canadian Health Network (CHN)
      This tutorial is geared towards medical and nursing students. "'Information prescriptions' take place when health professionals guide patients toward reliable, up-to-date, consumer-friendly health information web sites Because people are going online to research their health problems anyway, nursing and medical students need to be prepared to refer people to reputable sites, like the CHN, and able to assess the information that patients bring in to them. The purpose of this tutorial is to raise awareness of the CHN with health professionals in training, and to demonstrate CHN as a trustworthy consumer health tool." It will take you approximately 15-20 minutes to complete this tutorial.
    • Using Health Information on the Internet - Canadian Health Network (CHN)
      On this web site. the CHN has provided two very useful checklists to help you evaluated health web sites: How to find the most trustworthy health information Web sites and What to look for in a health promoting Web site.
    • Tutorial on Internet Information Skills for Nurses - School of Adult Nursing, University of the West of England
      A "teach yourself" tutorial on the Web, for nurses, midwives and health visitors who want to learn what the Internet can offer for their study, teaching, practice and research.
    • Evaluating Web sites - Trent University
Women’s Health
  • Bureau of Women's Health and Gender Analysis - Health Canada
    "The Bureau of Women's Health and Gender Analysis is responsible for ensuring that women's health concerns receive appropriate attention and emphasis within Health Canada." On this web site you'll find fact sheets on women's health, links to women's health initiatives such as the Women's Health Strategy and the Women's Health Indicators Project.
  • Canadian Women's Health Network
    On this web site you will find information on various health topics, women's health news, and links to events, research, and other women's health organizations.
  • Centres of Excellence for Women's Health (CEWH) - Canada
    " The Canadian Women’s Health Network is a far–reaching web of researchers, healthcare providers, community groups, family members, activists and, most importantly, women themselves. It includes experts, activists and ordinary women working in community clinics, on hospital floors, at the university, in provincial and federal health ministries, and in women’s organizations." On this web site you will find links to information about and links to participating organizations and the research bulletin.
  • Women's Health Council - Ontario
    "The Ontario Women’s Health Council (OWHC) was established in 1998 by the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care to act as an advocate and a catalyst for change that will improve the health of Ontario women at all stages of life. " On this site you will find information about projects in place promoting accountability, access to healthcare, and research as well as fact sheets and health reports such as Fact Sheet: The Plan B Emergency Contraception Pill (ECP) and Health Status of Homeless Women - An Inventory of Issues.
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