NURSING RESOURCES
Nursing Resources 
- San Antonio College Nursing Department
San Antonio College Department of Nursing Education offers an Associate in
Applied Science degree. It is the largest Associate Degree Nursing Program
in Texas. The site contains relevant information for entry into the programs
(generic pathway and transition from LVN to RN) and access to Department of
Nursing Education Administration and faculty.
- San Antonio Metropolitan Health
District The San Antonio Metropolitan Health District's homepage provides
links to information specific to the San Antonio area.
-
allnurses.com An interesting site
where you may find the latest nursing news, job information, and interesting
discussion topics. It is definitely worth taking a look at.
- Nurse's Resource Center
The Resource Center accompanies the popular PDR Nurse's Handbook and includes
monthly alerts, changes and new drug releases. The Newscenter features the
monthly drug column from RN Magazine as well as daily drug news headlines
from Individual, Inc.
- Healthweb: Nursing
HealthWeb contains information on clinical nursing, careers, education, and
electronic newsletters and journals.
- Cybernurse
If you have an interest in becoming a nurse or if you have already taken the
plunge, CyberNurse provides links you might find useful. Information on careers,
schools, and Florence Nightingale can be found here.
- Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare
Organizations
The mission of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
is to continuously improve the safety and quality of care provided to the
public through the provision of health care accreditation and related services
that support performance improvement in health care organizations.
- American Medical Association
AMA's work includes the development and promotion of standards in medical
practice, research, and education; strong advocacy agenda on behalf of patients
and physicians; and the commitment to providing accurate, timely information
and discourse on matters important to the health of America.
- The Merck Manual
(Full Text)
The Merck Manual provides useful clinical information to practicing physicians,
medical students, interns, residents, nurses, pharmacists, and other health
care professionals in a concise, complete, and accurate manner. The Merck
Manual continues to cover all the subjects expected in a textbook of internal
medicine as well as detailed information on pediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics,
gynecology, dermatology, pharmacology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, and
a number of special subjects.
- Gray's Anatomy
Gray's Anatomy is now available online for free. Visit this link and read
all 1,396 pages and view all 1,247 illustrations. The subject index contains
almost 13,000 entries that link you directly to their respective pages in
the text. Or, you can browse all of the thumbnail versions of the illustrations
by clicking here.
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