Associations/Organizations
- American Association of Colleges of Nursing
- American Nursing Informatics Association
- American Nurses Association
- Center for Nursing Advocacy
- Florida Center for Nursing
- Florida Nurses Association
- Florida Nursing Students Association
- National League for Nursing
- National Student Nurses Association
- Organizations - A good list from Healthfinder.gov
- Visiting Nurse Association (Florida)
- Another good list of nursing associations - from The Agape Center
Career Information
Complementary Health & Supplements
Databases
The FKCC Library provides our students and staff with access to an excellent selection of health databases, providing access to full text articles, newspapers, multimedia and more. The databases are available from the FKCC Library web site.
- CINAHL – FKCC database
A comprehensive database for nursing and allied health; provides summaries of articles from more than 1,900 journals covering all facets of sociology and related disciplines, including anthropology, criminology, demography, and urban studies. - Health and Nursing - FKCC database
- Health and Wellness - FKCC database
- Health Reference Center (Academic) - FKCC database
- Health Source: Consumer & Nursing/Academic Editions - FKCC database
Provides access to nearly 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on medical and nursing disciplines; also provides basic citation and abstract information from over 500 additional medical and nursing journals. - MEDLINE – FKCC database
- Nursing and Allied Health Source - FKCC database
- Psychology Articles - FKCC database
- PubMed - freely available on the Internet
From the National Library of Medicine – this database includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's; citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals.
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
- Medical Dictionaries Links to dictionaries From Healthfinder.gov
Diseases & Symptoms
- Conditions A-Z Health information from the American Academy of Family Physicians
- Conditions Guides From Merck
- Diseases & Conditions From Healthfinder.gov
- Merck Manual Home Edition From Merck
- NOAH Co-sponsored by The City University of New York, The Metropolitan New York Library Council, The New York Academy of Medicine and The New York Public Library
- Medical Symptoms Index - From AllRefer.com
- Procedures, Symptoms & Manifestations - From University of Iowa's Virtual Hospital
Drug Information
- Consumer Drug Info - From the Food and Drug Administration
- Drug Digest - From DrugDigest.org
- Drug Information database From MedlinePlus
- OTC Medications and how they work From familydoctor.org
- Drug information - From PDRhealth
Evaluating Web Resources
- Joanna Briggs Institute - Best Practices Information - available via FKCC Proquest Datbabase
General Health Resources
- Familydoctor.org -Health information From the American Academy of Family Physicians
- MEDLINEplus The National Library of Medicine's page to direct consumers to informational resources
- Healthfinder A consumer health and human services information web site From the United States government
- InteliHealth From Aetna, Inc. in cooperation with the Harvard Medical School
- NOAH - Co-sponsored by The City University of New York, The Metropolitan New York Library Council, The New York Academy of Medicine and The New York Public Library
NCLEX Exam Resources
- FKCC Library Database - Select Testing & Education Reference Center (Gale) database
- Guide to NCLEX
News
Non-English Sites
- FamilyDoctor.org - Español
- Healthfinder - Español
- MSD.es - Manual
- MedlinePlus - Español
- Salud.com
- CISMeF-patient
Nursing Videos/Podcasts
- Oncology nursing podcasts
- U Washington Nursing Grand Rounds - videos
- U Cinn Grand Rounds - videos
- SUNY Grand Rounds - videos
- Nursing Spectrum Continuing Education Podcasts (free and $)
Nursing Practice Information
- Florida Board of Nursing
- Florida Center for Nursing - helpful web links
- Intervention Project for Nurses - impairment
- Nurse Practice Act - Florida Dept of Health
Research Resources
- APA Style Guide (American Psychological Association)
- FKCC Library Research Help - links to APA style guides
Statistics
- MedlinePlus - guide to health statistics
- National Center for Health Statistics
- National Library of Medicine - guide to finding statistics
Tests & Procedures
- Health Tools - From Merck (registration required)
- Online Checkups - From Healthfinder.gov
- Tests & Exams - From AllRefer.com
- Test Reference - From Merck, powered by A.D.A.M.
- NurseZone Study Tips - From Nurse Zone
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