Nursing: Web Resources

Public Health Advocates

California Nurses Association

National Institute of Nursing Research (Links Nursing Organizations)

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

National League for Nursing

National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties

National Student Nurses' Association

Agency for Health Care Research and Policy (AHRQ)

Center for Evidence Based Practice - Johns Hopkins Medicine

Cochrane Collaboration

Health Information Research Unit-- McMaster University 

SQUIRE: Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence

University of Oxford, Centre of Evidence-Based Medicine

• ECRI Guidelines Trust: Find clinical practice guidelines.
• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  Find clinical practice guidelines based on scientific evidence
• CDC Data & Statistics 
• Browse or search for guidelines on various topics.
• Evidence Reports (AHRQ)
  Reports on which agencies and organizations can base clinical guidelines, performance measures, and quality improvement tools.
• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
  Evaluates clinical research to assess the merits of preventive measures, including screening tests, counseling, immunizations, and preventive medications.
• NCCN Guidelines in Oncology
  From National Comprehensive Cancer Network.
• NIH. Office of Disease Prevention. Consensus Development Program (retired)
  Evidence-based consensus statements addressing controversial issues important to healthcare providers, policymakers, patients, researchers, and the general public.
• AHA: CPR & ECC
  American Heart Association Guidelines for CPR and ECC.

Links to health organization websites that often contain useful professional and academic research and sound consumer-based information.

These are the good EBP Nursing research resources for evidence based summaries and guidelines avaialble freely on the Internet:

• APIC  (The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology)..  APIC website provides standards and guidelines focused on patient safety and infection prevention.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Health Services Research & Public Health Information Programs (National Library of Medicine)
• Healthfinder (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services)
• Johns Hopkins Nursing
  Good source of feature articles and continuing education units.
• Lab Tests Online from Testing.com.
• Mayo Clinic Health Information
• MedlinePlus
  This is a subset of Medline, providing information to consumers. Spanish version is also available.
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)