Family Nurse Practitioner Specialization

Helpful Links

Government Agencies	Health Promotion Sites
Professional Organizations	Links to Health & Nursing Sources
Nurse Practitioner/Nursing Resources	Online Job Searches
Online Journals	Mailing Lists

Other Interesting Sites
Comprehensive Databases	APA Guidelines for Citing From the Internet
Case Study Resources	Pediatric Resources
Women's Health Resources	Libraries/Textbooks
Healing Arts Resources	Pharmacy Resources
More Specific Sites

Government Agencies

• Grand Forks Public Health Department 
• North Dakota State Health Department 
• Center for Disease Control (including MMWR) 
• Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) 
• Healthy People 2020

Professional Organizations

• American Nurses' Association (ANA) 
• American Nursing Credentialing Center (ANCC) 
• American Academy of Nurse Practitioners 
• American College of Nurse Practitioners

Health Promotion Sites

• American Academy of Pediatrics 
• American Academy of Family Physicians 
• American College of Nurse-Midwives 
• American Heart Association 
• American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists 
• American Cancer Society Guidelines 
• American Dietetic Association 
• American College of Sports Medicine 
• American Diabetes Association 
• American Red Cross 
• Center for Disease Control & Prevention 
• Food & Drug Administration 
• Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition 
• International Lactation Consultant Association 
• La Leche League International 
• March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation 
• National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners (NAPNAP) 
• NIH National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases 
• CDC's Fruits & Veggies - More Matters Campaign 
• Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
• President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports 
• U.S. Department of Agriculture 

APA Guidelines for Citing From the Internet

• Web Extensions to APA Styles 
• APA Disc 
• Publication Manual FAQ
• OWL at Purdue APA Style Guide
• Rutgers Citation Guidelines

Links to Health & Nursing Sources

• Health Net (A health information network with links to health related resources) 
• The Virtual Nursing Center (A large, well organized resource center with links to a variety of information sources, including: medical dictionaries, anatomy browsers, nursing case studies, pharmacology resources, CEU courses. For students there is a "Clinical Examination" section with tutorials on a variety of skills.) 
• Medical Interactive (Your complete source for radiology educational materials.)
  
  

More Specific Sites

• Association for Support of Graduate Students (ASGS is a service organization of graduate students, graduate-student organizations (GSOs), and graduate-degree-granting institutions. ASGS services and products assist students to complete their theses and obtain their degrees, produce the highest quality of theses, and improve their lives during the thesis process.) 
• American Nurses Association Home Page (Provides worldwide access to nursing information, products and services, up-to-the minute news on nursing, health care, legislative issues, plus access to nursing-related databases and services. Also provides the Online Journal of Issues in Nursing.) 
• National Institute of Nursing Research (This is part of the National Institute of Health. Has links to other resources and web sites. Offers publications to download, a news and events section, and more.) 

Online Job Searches

• Medical/Health Care Jobs The Monster Board (Huge database for job searches. Also has online help with resume writing)

Online Journals

• Medscape (Online full text article on a wide variety of medical topics as well as up to the minute medical news.) 
• Lippincott Nursing Center (is now combining information from their various publications.) 
• Inter Nurse (Internet resources for nurses designed in an online magazine format. Has a section devoted to nursing students.) 
• The Internet Journal of Advanced Nursing Practice (A brand new, online, peer reviewed journal.) 
• Nurseweek (A source of healthcare related news, resources and job opportunities.) 
• Online Journal of Issues in Nursing ( A joint partnership between Kent State University and the American Nurses Association.) 
• Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (A journal designed to publish peer reviewed articles, review books, software and data bases related to nursing informatics, and more.) 
• New England Journal of Medicine (Many abstracts - updated weekly.) 
• ADVANCE for Nurse Practitioners (A peer-reviewed monthly newsmagazine that provides clinical and news information to nurse practitioners.) 
• Australian Journal of Nursing Education

Mailing Lists

• NP-CLINICAL Nurse Practitioner - Clinical Practice Mailing List.
To subscribe send e-mail to: majordomo@nurse.net
Type in the message section: Subscribe np-clinical Your e-mail address 
• NP-STUDENTS Nurse Practitioner Students
To subscribe send e-mail to:majordomo@nurse.net
Type in the message section: Subscribe np-students Your e-mail address 
• LISTSERV SERVICES AT SUNET - A complete list of all available listserves, over 21,000 types. There is a search engine included allowing discovery of specific interests.

Comprehensive Databases

• Medscape 
• Jim Martindale's Extensive Health-Science Guide '99 

Nurse Practitioner/Nursing Resources

• American Academy of Family Physicians 
• American College of Nurse Practitioners
• CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 
• Family Practice WWW Sites, University of Illinois, Chicago 
• New England Journal of Medicine Online 
• Nurse Practitioner Support Services 
• Nursing Net (A variety of nursing resources with emphasis on Nurse Practitioners) 

Case Study Resources

• The Virtual Hospital, University of Iowa 
• Cyberound 
• Medical Interactive (Your complete source for radiology educational materials.) 

Women's Health Resources

• Office of Research on Women's Health, NIH 

Pediatric Resources

• Pedinfo: A Pediatrics Web Server, University of Alabama 

Healing Arts Resources

• Alternative Medicine Homepage 

Libraries/Books

• Harley E. French Library of the Health Sciences (Located at the UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences) 
• Amazon Books 

Pharmacy Resources

• The Internet Drug Index