Guest Post: 10 Free Online Tools for Nurse Practitioners

10 Free Online Tools for Nurse Practitioners

There are several online sites that offer a wealth of tools and resources for nurse practitioners-

-and many of them are free. Here is a list of 10 sites that advanced practice nurses might find useful.

NursingCenter.com - Created by nurses for nurses, this site is an excellent place to find professional resources, clinical information, and continuing education activities. Other features include free peer-reviewed journal articles, free eNewsletters, job listings, daily news, and a search engine that searched more 100 nursing-specific websites vetted by other nurses.

NP Central - This site is operated by a non-profit organization that supports the development and advancement of nurse practitioners. NP Central offers job listings, education information, a list of nurse practitioner organizations by state, and other helpful resources.

eMedicine - A branch of WebMD, eMedicine is a highly respected online medical resource. You can browse many topics related to medicine, surgery, and pediatrics, and they can also view slideshows and get up-to-date medical alerts and news.

Epocrates - This free iPhone (and iTouch) application is a trustworthy mobile drug reference. This application features pill identification, drug interactions, and a medMath calculator.

Healthline - Healthline offers valuable information on a variety of subjects from drug treatments and interactions to healthy living. This site also features several videos and articles on current health-related topics.

Med-Source - This user-friendly site features posts on numerous medical subjects, and it allows users to browse those postings by subject, making it simple to find helpful information.

MedStudentNotes.com - MedStudentNotes.com offers a variety of resources, including online dictionaries, journals, medical notes, university libraries, and much more.

Mednotes.net - This site offers a comprehensive collection of free lecture notes and study guides in nearly every medical science. The primary goal of Mednotes.net is to educate nurses and medical students and help them study and prepare for exams.

MedicalStudent.com - On this site, you can find a large selection of online medical textbooks, journals, and a list of professional organization links. You can also view a variety of case studies, patient simulations, and more.

Clinician 1 - Clinician 1 gives you: job listings geared to specialty, free continuing education, the latest news, must-see articles, money-saving and earning opportunities, enjoyable social interaction, informative posts, and thought-provoking dialogues. It’s the only online community for physician assistants and nurse practitioners to connect, consult and converse on personal and professional levels.

Guest post from Bailey Harris. Bailey writes about health insurance quotes and related topics for www.healthinsurancequotes.org.

Private Practice

There is an interesting trend that I'm observing and don't necessarily see how this is going to turn out. I'm seeing more and more nurse practitioner's opening their own autonomous practices. Many of these offices set out to offer care that is personalized, covered under insurance, and of course high-quality. I'm also seeing more NP specialty/sub-specialty practices such as house calls, incontinence, and women's health. This is in a time when more physician practices are joining together in these conglomerations that aren't necessarily tied to hospitals. You'd be hard pressed to find a solo primary care physician these days yet nurse practitioner solo practices are popping up. The talk about the formation of accountable care organizations can be attributed to health care reform and the spurring of large multi-physician practices. What to make of this? I honestly don't know. Many people and patients have said to me "you should start your own prac

NP Residency

The healthcare system of today is so complex yet so dysfunctional that I believe the time has come to educate and train the NP providers of tomorrow in a way that is reflective of that complexity. We have done a good job up to this point but need to bring that to the next level. Residency. I'm not necessarily referring to the typical residency training of physicians which takes place in hospitals but a residency-type of program in an out-patient setting (ironic that we use the term residency). We realize that healthcare is not exclusively delivered in hospitals. It takes place in independent providers offices, in community health centers, in mobile health vans, and in retail settings. It takes place in people's homes and places of employment. It takes place in many of the health decisions that we make on a daily basis. I found this NP residency program in Connecticut that claims to be the first NP residency in the US. The programs admits 4 NPs each year and trains them to ha

Repost: Let Us Be Heard

I started this blog, A Nurse Practitioner’s View, 3 years ago because there were very few health stories that even mentioned nurse practitioners as part of the health care landscape. Right before I started the blog, I would respond to other health policy articles published on the Web by writing comments to the websites – only to be subjected to baseless and factually incorrect statements. It was soon thereafter that I decided I would write my own perspective on health policy, trends, and news. I also felt it important from a credibility aspect to not blog anonymously but to put my name on it. I recall those few early blog posts that I proudly wrote and would feverishly check my blog visitor stats to see if people were reading. Well, it was a bit slow going in the beginning with about 10 – 15 readers but as they say, “if you build it, they will come.” Today, the blog enjoys hundreds of visits a day, has a Facebook following, has enabled me to be “discovered” to blog at Online Nurse

Dave said…

Thanks for the Clinician 1 mention. We invite all NPs to come on to our community and have some professional fun.
Www.clinician1.com

Dave

April 14, 2011 at 8:23 PM

Online health said…

I am glad that I came across this post. Keep up the good work.

November 16, 2013 at 12:13 AM

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