RN Zone Links

Keeping current with today's professional changes and achieving best practices are awesome undertakings. To this end, Husted Life Care Planning has developed a starter kit of helpful web links. Browsing TIP: Browse all the sites listed. Many of them fit into several categories.

Articles for finding health information on the web

• Finding health information on the web https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/patient_care/conditions_treatments.html

Ask Question Sites

• Ask Jeeves http://www.ask.com/
   

Case Management  

• Case Management Society of America http://www.cmsa.org/    
   
• Medscape http://www.medscape.com/px/urlinfo
   
• Cerebral Palsy Guidance  


• https://www.cerebralpalsyguidance.com/cerebral-palsy/symptoms/
   

Clearing House – Federal Health Information

• Federal Health Information Centers and Clearing House https://health.gov/our-work/national-health-initiatives/health-literacy/resources/national-health-information-center/topic

Consumer links 

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality  http://www.ahrq.gov/
   
• Black healthcare.com @ www.blackhealthcare.com/
    
• Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services- consumer section www.cms.hhs.gov/ 
   
• Healthfinder:  http://www.healthfinder.gov/
   
• Health information for the whole family from the Academy of Family Physicians  http://familydoctor.org/
   
• Medline Plus Hispanic-American Health
  www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/hispanicamericanhealth.html
   
• Merck Manual
  https://www.merckmanuals.com/professional
   
• Merck Source
  http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_home.jsp
   
• Office of Professional Misconduct New York State Department of Education
  http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/opmc/main.htm
   
• The Stanford Health Library
  https://healthlibrary.stanford.edu/books-resources.html
   
• WebMDHealth http://my.webmd.com/webmd_today/home/default

Continuing Education

• See journals and nursing associations.  Free continuing medical education programs by specialty
  http://www.medscape.com/cmecenterdirectory/Default?src=hdr

 
Disability Sources 

• Information on assistive technology  https://abledata.acl.gov/
   
• Job Accommodation Network  http://www.jan.wvu.edu/
   
• Career and Employment Resources for People with Disabilities https://www.fiscaltiger.com/career-and-employment-resources-for-people-with-disabilities/
   
• ResumeBuilder: https://www.resumebuilder.com/comprehensive-resume-and-career-guide-for-people-with-disabilities/.
   

Disease Management

• National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion https://www.cdc.gov/about/organization/cio-orgcharts/nccdphp.html

Evidence Based Medicine

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality  http://www.ahrq.gov/
   
• Health Services Technology Assessment Text.(HSAT)
  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10153387/
   
• National Guideline Clearinghouse www.guideline.gov/
     
• National Library of Medicine (NLM). The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S... https://www.nlm.nih.gov/
   
• National Quality Measures Clearinghouse
  www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/survey/page1.aspx?id=6c967a7d-f708-448c-

Healthcare Policy

• GPO Access (official information from the three branches of the federal government) https://www.govinfo.gov/
   
• Health Policy – Links to Health Policy Sites https://guides.library.harvard.edu/c.php?g=310702&p=2072650
   
• Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation United States Department of Health and Human Services aspe.hhs.gov/index.shtml

 

Journals

• Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/
   
• Free Medical Journals http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/
   
• Nursing ejournal at Medscape 
  http://www.medscape.com/pages/homepages/ejournal/tapnursing

Journal Searches (for abstracts only)

• PubMed  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

Legal Nurse Consulting

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/errorsix.htm
   
• Martindale-Hubbell
  https://www.martindale.com/
   
• Medical Terminology https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/resourcespages/medical-terms
   
• Medscape http://www.medscape.com/px/urlinfo
   
• National Practitioner Databank https://www.npdb.hrsa.gov/
   
• The American Bar Association https://www.nationalbar.org/

Life Care Planning

• Care Planner Network http://www.careplanners.net/
   
• GoodRX  https://www.goodrx.com/
   
• International Academy of Life Care Planners
  https://connect.rehabpro.org/lcp/home
   
• National Center for Health Statistics (Life Expectancy)
  https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_07-508.pdf
    
• Nanda International
  https://nanda.org/

  

Media Links

Essential Links.com provides access to multiple media sites including

• CNN
• ABC news
• CBS news
• MSNBC
• New York Times
• Washington Post 
• Essential Links

Medicare Set Asides

• Medicare Coordination of Benefits https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coordination-of-Benefits-and-Recovery/Coordination-of-Benefits-and-Recovery-Overview/Coordination-of-Benefits/Coordination-of-Benefits
   
• National Alliance of Medicare Set-Aside Professionals https://www.namsap.org/

Mental Sites

• Mental Help Net http://mentalhelp.net/

 

Nursing and Professional Organizations

• American Association of Nurse Life Care Planners
  http://www.aanlcp.org/
   
• American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants
  http://www.aalnc.org/
   
• American Nurses Association official site
  http://www.nursingworld.org/
   
• Association of Rehabilitation Nurses http://www.rehabnurse.org/
   
• Case Management Society of America http://www.cmsa.org/
   
• Directory of nursing organizations
  https://nurse.org/orgs.shtml
   
• International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals
  http://www.rehabpro.org/

Physician Sites

• The Medical Literature Guide http://amedeo.com/
   
• American Academy of Family Physicians.  http://www.aafp.org/
   

Population Based Medicine and Medicare Set-Asides

• Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services- professional section
  www.cms.hhs.gov/
   
• Medicare secondary payer and you
  https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coordination-of-Benefits-and-Recovery/Coordination-of-Benefits-and-Recovery-Overview/Medicare-Secondary-Payer/Medicare-Secondary-Payer
   
• National Health Information Center
  https://health.gov/our-work/health-literacy/resources/national-health-information-center
   
• United States National Library of Medicine National Institutes of
  Health @ www.nlm.nih.gov/portals/healthcare.html

Spinal Cord Injury

• Spinal Cord injury Model System Dissemination Center
  https://msktc.org/sci
   
• 16 Model Spinal Cord injury Systems
  https://www.nscisc.uab.edu/Docs/SCI%20Model%20Systems/SCIMS%20PowerPoint%20Presentation.pdf

Toll Free Numbers

• Toll Free Numbers for Health Information
  https://www.nih.gov/health-information/health-info-lines 

Traumatic Brain Injury

• Brain Injury Association of America
  https://www.biausa.org/
   
• Shirley Ryan Ability Lab (formerly Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago) https://www.sralab.org/
   
• Substance Abuse and Traumatic Brain Injury
  https://www.brainline.org/article/substance-abuse-and-traumatic-brain-injury
   
• TBI Model Systems http://www.tbindc.org/

 

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