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Nursing, Medicine, & Allied Health:
selected Internet and electronic resources
Consumer Health Information and Resources: |
| Healthfinder (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services): A consumer health gateway |
HEALTHLINKplus (Charlotte & Mecklenburg Public Library): Consumer health information links |
| Mayo Clinic Health Oasis: Consumer health information fulltext |
| MEDLINEPlus (National Library of Medicine) : Links to fulltext consumer health resources |
| NOAH: New York Online Access to Health- Consumer health information in English and Spanish |
Comprehensive Sites and Resources: |
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Wide range of health topics. |
Medem (Created by seven leading medical societies): Comprehensive healthcare information including a 'medical library' |
| NursingCenter:A large portal to more than 800 continuing education activities and thousands of clinical articles from 50 leading nursing journals published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, including the American Journal of Nursing, Nursing2008, Nursing Management, The Nurse Practitioner, Nursing Made Incredibly Easy, and many more specialty journals. |
PubMed (National Library of Medicine): Database of professional journal abstracts in medicine and health |
North Carolina Health and Healthcare Information: |
| NC AHEC Digital Library (Sign in as a guest) |
| NC Health Careers: The latest information about educational requirements for health careers, North Carolina schools that offer health care programs, updated information for entering health professions, etc. |
| NC Health Info : Access to local health services and programs in NC. |
| NC Dept. of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health: Offers a wide range of health topics. |
| State Center for Health Statistics (NC Department of Health and Human Services) : Online reports of health-related statistics. |
Diseases: Cancer |
| Association of Cancer Online Resources: A free online "lifeline" for everyone effected by cancer and related disorders. |
| Oncolink: (A University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center) - Searchable source of cancer-related information |
Diseases: HIV/AIDS |
Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative: Information on ground-breaking research & more |
| HIV inSite: (University of California San Francisco School of Medicine) - A Gateway to HIV/AIDS Information |
Women's Health and Healthcare Resources: |
National Women’s Health Information Center: (NWHIC)- Health information gateway especially for women |
Learning Objects and Online Tutorials: Nursing |
Assessing Blood Pressure: This interactive tutorial presents the proper technique and common errors associated with assessment of blood pressure. The information is targeted at new learners in the clinical and health sciences and can serves as a review for current practitioners. It includes audio of blood pressure sounds, interactive simulations, and self-assessment tools.
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Auscultation Assistant: The Auscultation Assistant provides heart sounds, heart murmurs, and breath sounds in order to help medical students and others improve their physical diagnosis skills. |
Care Plan Corner: A site designed to help nursing students write accurate patient care plans. |
Clinical Skills Online: The Clinical Skills Online (CSO) is a project aimed at providing online videos demonstrating core clinical skills common to a wide range of medical and health-based courses. |
Construction of the Cell Membrane: In this tutorial students study the structure of the cell membrane by constructing it using the correct molecules. Relevant to health sciences students studying nutrition, biochemistry and pharmacology. |
Construction of the Cell Membrane: In this tutorial students study the structure of the cell membrane by constructing it using the correct molecules. Relevant to health sciences students studying nutrition, biochemistry and pharmacology. |
National Library of Medicine Interactive Tutorials: These 165 tutorials are interactive health education resources produced by the Patient Education Institute. Using animated graphics each tutorial explains a procedure or condition in easy-to-read language. You can also listen to the tutorial. |
Painless: In this scenario-based simulation, the user takes the part of a nurse caring for a post-operative cancer patient administering, adjusting and monitoring his medication. |
The Structures of Life: An online tutorial for learning about the world of "structural biology" -- a branch of molecular biology that focuses on the shape of nucleic acids and proteins. It includes information on the structures and roles of proteins, tools used to study protein shapes, how proteins are used in designing new medications (for AIDS and arthritis), and what structural biology reveals about all life processes. It also has information about careers in biomedical research. |
Surgical Procedure Videos: These videos are prerecorded webcasts of surgical procedures prepared for the National Library of Medicine. They show actual operations performed at medical centers in the United States since January 2004. The videos last an hour. Please note that you cannot send in questions by email, though the webcast may say that you can, because you are not seeing these videos live. |
The Visible Heart: This animation focuses on the gross anatomy of the human heart. The model of the heart is semitransparent, allowing users to see through the thick cardiac muscle into the four heart chambers. |
Learning Objects and Online Tutorials: Anatomy and Physiology |
Brain Anatomy and Physiology: An interactive Flash movie designed to help students learn all about the structures and functions of the brain using a midsagittal section of the human brain anatomy. |
The Brain fromTop to Bottom (Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology): This site includes an incredible amount of information on the human brain. You can browse the site by topic, level of explanation (beginner, intermediate, & advanced), level of organization (cellular, molecular, neurological, psychological, & social), module, or guided tour. The site already contains over 70 presentations on the brain (and it is still under development)! |
Gray's Anatomy Online: The Bartleby.com edition of Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 vibrant engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries ranging from the Antrum of Highmore to the Zonule of Zinn. |
| Human Anatomy Online: Interactive tutorial for studying human anatomy |
The Physiology of the Senses: A set of twelve web tutorials explaining the biology of human senses. These topics include: the eye, the visual cortex, visual perception of objects, visual perception of motion, association cortex, streams for visually guided actions, touch, muscle sense, hearing, balance, eye movements, and memory. |
Learning Objects and Online Tutorials: DNA and Genetics |
DNA From The Beginning : An animated tutorial on DNA, genes and heredity. The science behind each concept is explained using animations, an image gallery, video interviews, problems, biographies, and links. There are three sections, Classical Genetics, Molecules of Genetics and Organization of Genetic Material.
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Genetic Science Learning Center: Interactive modules to help people understand how genetics effect their lives and society. |
Learning Objects and Online Tutorials: Dental |
Anatomic Crown and Root - Students locate the enamel, cementum, cementoenamel junction, the anatomic crown, and the root of a tooth in this interactive lesson. |
Blood-borne Pathogens - Students read a scenario about a blood-borne pathogen incident in the workplace and decide the best action to take. |
Clinical Crown and Root - Students identify the enamel, cementum, cementoenamel junction, clinical crown, clinical root, and epithelial attachment of a tooth. |
| Components of dental microbial plaque - Students examine the contents of organized microbial plaque and test their knowledge in matching exercises. |
Dental Hygiene: A Case Study for "Tom" - Students assess the periodontal status and the health risk factors of a fictitious patient. They also make treatment recommendations in this interactive lesson. |
| Stages of Dental Plaque Formation - In this animated activity, students read about the stages of microbial dental plaque formation and the time it takes for each stage to occur. |