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Homework Assistants 

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

General Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Medical  Medline Plus Dictionaries  Medical Dictionary 1  

Drug References

Medications (alternative therapies and patient teaching included)
Nursing Drug Book1 (this works only for Mercer Students, it has great printed pages)
Medications at Medline Plus
Yahoo Health Drug Guide (printable consumer information)
WebMD medication list

Patient Education Search Sites To the Top

Patient Education Here are many (more than 20) places to search for patient education information. There are broad search areas and more specific ones. 

Adult Health Information (for the most part)  

Medline Plus Health topics
Yahoo Health Information 

WebMD Health Information
Megasites for Health some good ones here

Mental Health Web Sites Many resources for mental health on this page.

Alternative Health Care Sites Good links to Information on alternative health care methods.

Health organizations with specific health information 

American Heart Association National Center
"Virtual" Nursing Center
American Diabetes Association
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
American Cancer Society
American Stroke Association
Heart Point (great animations of how the heart works and much more)
Sickle Cell Information Center (our own Grady Hospital center)
Internet Mental Health (most conditions and medications explained)
Women's Health
Healthy People 2010 Healthy People is a national health promotion and disease prevention program.
Virtual Stethoscope Project Want to hear and practice breath sounds or cardiac sounds identification?  Go here. Here is another link to it Old Virtual Stethoscope

World Health Web Sites To the Top

CDC Centers for Disease Control
NIH National Institutes of Health
WHO World Health Organization
ICN International Council of Nurses
British Nursing Web Sites
Pan American Health Organization

APA Format Help To the Top

Electronic Reference Formats  APA for Online References 

Find That Article Databases 

Free Full Text Article Online (you need to have the customer code, id and password...get it here)
Free Medline Searching with Pub Med
Swilley Library 

Search Engines To the Top

You need some general information, then use these search engines and directories. 
Google is very highly rated, I use it a lot for everything web.
FAST Search (the best rated search engine in many reviews)
Dogpile (It sends the search to 20 other search engines)
Yahoo has a lot of information too.
Ask Jeeves (type in real questions, get real answers)

Superior Electronic References, (want to search for almost anything,  go here...the list of possibilities is HUGH),   Research-It! (convert money, translate languages, dictionary, and more)

Organizationally Wise Nurse To the Top

The BIG LIST of Nursing Organizations

Other Selected Organizations that you may be interested in checking out
GANS (Georgia Association of Nursing Students)
GNA (Georgia Nurses Association)
NSNA(National Student Nurses Association)
Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing

ANA (American Nurses Association)

AORN Association of Operating Room Nurses
AACN (critical care nurses)
AANA (American Association of Nurse Anesthetists)
EDNA(Emergency Nurses Association)
AHNA (American Holistic Nurses Association)
American Association of Neuroscience Nurses
ANIA (American Nursing Informatics Association)
AANP (American Association of Nures Practitioners)
American College of Nurse Practitioners
APON (Association of Pediatric Oncology Nurses)
The American Psychiatric Nurses Association

Practice Tests and the NCLEX 

50 Questions Multiple Choice  Go here and practice test taking. 
NCLEX main page
Site map for the whole NCSBN.
NCLEX General student questions answered here and how the test works.
NCLEX  for candiates pre test, registration for the test and post test. You can download and review the test plans from here.
(you need Adobe Acrobat Reader to see  items, click here to get reader downloaded to you

Fun Things  To the Top

So school is about fun, right!?  Yes!!!!  Well these places have the focus on fun!  See if you can live to 100,  Superior Electronic References, (a super site to go and find tickets online, shopping, and much more)   Virtual Nursing College NurseHealer (alternative therapies and holistic approaches) Student College Life Online

Fun things to tryout.  Need a break??  Yes!! Go to brain teasers. Brain games, puzzles and pastimes Try to read Doctor's Order's, that's always fun. Ray's Computers in Pharmacy Page Go here and get your picture taken with the  Cyber "Camera"

New Fun here. If you like games try some of these online games

Student HOt LiNe  To the Top

Find Someone's Phone or Email or Home Page

Search for a Mercer email address for student, faculty or staff 

Student life at Atlanta Campus

Find all kinds of info about life at the Atlanta Campus of MU.

Sent a Card to....Whom ever

Blue Mountain Greeting Cards   Amazon Cards  The Digital Postcard  REGARDS Special Days ahead??? Send an electronic card to that certain someone. 

Yuckitup (humor)

Overwhelmed by nursing school? (oh yeah!), need to loosen up?...well yuckitup at these places. (Management not responsible for the content) Nurstoon Nursing Humor Cartoons  Comics.com Callahan Online  The Norm  Laugh-A-Lot 

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September 20, 2004

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