Nursing Resources: Nursing Websites

Study for the NCLEX-RN Exam: LearningExpress Library: First create an account and then search for "nursing." You'll find sample tests to work your way through, including the NCLEX-RN exam

Health Departments and Organizations

• Administration on Aging: The Federal focal point for and advocate agency for older persons and their concerns
• AHRQ--Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Includes Health Topics A to Z
• Healthy People 2020 Information: National health objectives and statistics
• NDNQI National Database for Nursing Quality Indicators 
• National Institutes of Health: Links to research at 27 health institutes including nursing research
• Oncology Nurse Advisor 
• State Health Facts: From the Kaiser Family Foundation Compares health data among states
• Virginia Henderson Global Nursing e-Repository 
• Wisconsin Environmental Public Health Tracking
• WHO--World Health Organization  

Drug Information

• Clinical Trials: FDA regularly updates information about a trial's purpose, participants, locations, and contacts
• Rx List: Search for drug information

Consumer Health

• Mayo Clinic
• InteliHealth: Information provided by Harvard Medical School and Aetna Insurance.
• Gunderson Health System
• Health Finder: Health information and web sites from over 1,500 health-related organizations
• Johns Hopkins Medicine – Health Library
• Lab Tests Online: A public listing of clinical lab testing
• Medscape: Features research resources for professionals in the health field

Nursing and Professional Organizations

• AACN--American Association of Colleges of Nursing 
• ANA Nursing World: Official site of the American Nurses Association. Also see ANA Database & Resources 
• American Holistic Nurses Association 
• American Psychiatric Nurses Association
• American Public Health Association
• Minnesota Board of Nursing 
• National Council of State Boards of Nursing
• National Students Nurses Association ​
• Sigma Theta Tau International 
• Wisconsin Board of Nursing 

General Nursing Information

• Bureau of Labor Statistics: Find employment-related data 
• Buros Mental Measurements Search: If you need to locate a measurement tool, you may want to try here. Once you locate the title, we can find the review in our print resources.
• The Florence Nightingale Digitization Project: An International Digital Collaboration: A collaborative database of 2,300 letters handwritten or narrated by Florence Nightingale
• Information Essential Nursing Resources: A resource guide from Nursing World
• National Library of Medicine: Project to provide complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies