Nursing

The purpose of this text is to cover information to help any college student succeed, with additional information specific for both pre-nursing students and students in a formal nursing program.

Excellent source of information on diseases and conditions, healthy living, and public health concerns

Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans. A good sources for systematic reviews for a variety of health issues and well as statistics.

A good source for a variety of health and disease concerns for countries the world over.

Using the Institute of Medicine competencies, QSEN faculty and a National Advisory Board have defined quality and safety competencies for nursing and proposed targets for the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to be developed in nursing pre-licensure programs for each competency.

The Plain Language Thesaurus has been put together by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Marketing. Our aim is to help make health information clear and easy to understand. This thesaurus offers plain language equivalents to medical terms, phrases, and references that we often use. The technical terms found in health information can be confusing. This thesaurus is a tool to help you find words that people may understand better.

Everyday Words for Public Health Communication offers expert recommendations from CDC's Health Literacy Council and other agency communicators on how to reduce jargon and improve reader understanding.

EthnoMed aims to be a convenient source for social and cultural details relevant to clinical care. EthnoMed was developed through relationships between programs at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle and several of the larger ethnic communities we serve. The website intends to provide cultural context when working with immigrants and refugees in our area. It is also an entree to “cross-cultural” practice.

Trusted by generations of healthcare providers, PDR delivers innovative health knowledge products and services that support prescribing decisions and patient adherence to improve health.

Bright Futures is a national health promotion and prevention initiative, led by the American Academy of Pediatrics and supported, in part, by the US Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)​, Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB). The Bright Futures Guidelines provide theory-based and evidence-driven guidance for all preventive care screenings and well-child visits.

Our Bodies Ourselves Today is the online version of the groundbreaking book on women's health.

Job outlook information from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Job outlook information from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, but written for consumers