ADVANCE for LPNs
What you will find: job listings, career tips, and continuing education opportunities.
AIDS Info
What you will find: offers information on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and research. Topics include a drug database, clinical trials, and vaccine research.
American Red Cross
What you will find: provides information about red cross services, such as disaster preparedness, CPR, AIDS, swimming & babysitting courses. Also provides information about volunteer and donation opportunities.
Career Guidance Resources on the Internet
http://www.mdc.edu/medical/library/teaching.asp#career
What you will find: scroll to the bottom of the page for links to the websites for Occupational Outlook Handbook, Florida Health Careers, Choices Planner, Nursing Spectrum: Careers in Nursing, Nurses for a Healthier Tomorrow, and Planning a Career in Nursing.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
What you will find: provides up-to-date information on many aspects of health care, including diseases and conditions, vaccines and immunizations, and emergency preparedness and response. It also includes a section with health statistics.
CPR/ECC Guidelines: Webcasts from the American Heart Association
http://www.eccguidelineswebcast.org/index.html
What you will find: provides webcasts on the 2005 American Heart Association guidelines for CPR and ECC for 3 different populations: hospitals, EMS, and the community.
Evidence Based Nursing
http://evidence.ahc.umn.edu/ebn.htm
What you will find: definitions, models, and teaching of evidence based nursing.
Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence
What you will find: provides a listing of domestic violence centers, legal assistance for victims, assistance for special groups, such as immigrants and the elderly, and a schedule of training opportunities.
Florida Department of Health: Nursing Board Overview
http://www.doh.state.fl.us/mqa/nursing/
What you will find: provides applications for renewal or new nursing licenses, Florida Statutes pertinent to nursing, licensed provider directory, continuing education information as well as license information for visiting nurses or people trained in a foreign country.
Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body
What you will find: features 1,247 vibrant engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication.
Health Resources and Services Administration's HIPAA Web Site
What you will find: links to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance procedures.
Healthy People 2010
What you will find: a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats.
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
What you will find: the United State's predominant standards-setting and accrediting body for health care organizations and programs.
Learn CPR
http://depts.washington.edu/learncpr/index.html
What you will find: provides illustrated guides on performing CPR on adults, children, infants, and pets. Video demonstration also provided.
LPN Central
What you will find: provides message boards, listing of nursing schools, reference tools, listing of boards of nursing, continuing education opportunities, and an area to shop for nursing books.
MedlinePlus
What you will find: includes a Medical Encyclopedia, Medical Dictionary, Interactive Tutorials on common procedures and conditions, and Doctor and Dentist Directories.
MERCKSource Resource Library
What you will find: includes A.D.A.M. Health Illustrated Encyclopedia, Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, Merck Manuals, and the PDR Family Guide to Over-the-Counter Drugs.
National Council of State Boards of Nursing
What you will find: general information about the NCLEX-PN (National Council Licensure Examination for Practical Nurses) and pass rates statistics.
NCLEX-PN Licensure Testing with Pearson VUE
http://www.pearsonvue.com/nclex/
What you will find: register for an examination and locate testing centers.
*Please note: the Library has print and computer-based NCLEX-PN study guides available.
Nurses.com
What you will find: job listings, continuing education opportunities, and news relevant to nursing.
Nursing Center
What you will find: career advice, job listings, and continuing education opportunities.
Nursing Spectrum
http://www.nursingspectrum.com
What you will find: career advice, job listings, continuing education opportunities, and news relevant to nursing.
Occupational Health and Safety Administration
What you will find: provides health standards, regulations, and inspections to prevent workplace injuries, illnesses and deaths.
Student Success Center (SSC), Medical Campus, Miami Dade College
http://www.mdc.edu/medical/lr/casa/default.asp
What you will find: provides a listing of computer based tutoring programs accessible from computers in the Medical Campus Library and in SSC. SSC also offers online and face-to-face tutoring services. For more information on any of these services or programs, contact SSC at (305) 237-4499.
Transcultural Nursing
http://www.culturediversity.org/
What you will find: provides information about nursing in a third world culture, cultural profiles as related to health care, sample case studies, and a transcultural nursing assessment tool.
World Wide Wounds
http://www.worldwidewounds.com/
What you will find: provides an ejournal, discussion forum, and product news for dressing materials and practical wound management.