Links

Links sections will be listed below in categories.

ACLS, Interactive Sites, and Anatomy and Pathophysiology

ACLS4you - has rhythm test, mega-code, and questions

Anatomy - click on a system, visuals with text

Auscultation Assistant - Easy Auscultation listen to heart, lung, BP and other sounds and abnormal findings

BMI Table - Check BMI from the table provided, from National Institutes of

Health

Critical Care - evidence-based information relevant to intensivists, has latest

news and research

Medscape - Look up pathophysiology/drug guide

Merck Manual - Look up pathophysiology

WebMD - Look up diseases and conditions

Advanced Practice Nurses

ACNM - American College of Nurse Midwives

ACNP - American College of Nurse Practitioners

ANA Credentialing Center

CCNS - Critical Care certification for Certified Nurse Specialists

National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists

National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties

Airway Management/Anesthesia/Respiratory Care

American Association of Nurse Anesthetists - AANA is the professional

association representing Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists

(CRNAs)

American Association of Respiratory Care - AARC is the official organization in America that oversees respiratory care

KANA - Kansas Association of Nurse Anesthetists

Nurse Anesthesia Associations - links to all state associations

CDC

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Trauma Mass Preparedness and Response

Critical Care

American Academy of Emergency Medicine

AACN - American Association of Critical Care Nursing

AACN Certifications - including CCRN

AANN - American Association of Neuroscience Nurses

American College of Chest Physicians

American College of Emergency Physicians

AHA - American Heart Association

American Thoracic Society - a division of the American Lung Association, the

Society's long-range goal is to decrease morbidity and mortality from

respiratory disorders and life-threatening acute illnesses.

ENA - Emergency Nurses Association

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute - division of the National Institutes of Health, research related to the causes, prevention, diagnosis, and

treatment of heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood diseases; and sleep

disorders

Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

Society of Critical Care Medicine

Historical

Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing

Journals

Anesthesiology - Journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists

American Thoracic Society - online journals for the ATS

Chest - The Cardiopulmonary and Critical Care Journal

Circulation - Journal of the American Heart Association

Journal of the American Medical Association

Nursing

Kansas State Board of Nursing - Includes the full text for the Kansas

Nurse Practice Act

Nursing Research

EBN - Evidence Based Nursing, online research journal

Surgery

American College of Surgeons

AORN - Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses

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