Health Promotion in Professional Nursing Practice: Websites
Quick Link Websites
Health Information Web Sites
Use these resources to Identify disease pathophysiology, clinical features, functional problems, secondary conditions, and, in some cases, medical management.
- MEDLINE Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowFind articles from over 2000 journals on topics including nursing, medicine, pre-clinical science, health policy, and biomedicine.
- Quick Lessons from CINAHLIncludes etiology, symptoms, risks, and assessments. *Click the link and click on the more found on the top of page. Look for quick lessons.*
- QSEN InstituteThe Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) project addresses the challenge of preparing future nurses with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of the healthcare systems within which they work.
- National Academy of Medicine formerly the Institute of MedicineUse the "explore by topic" and keyword for relevant information on health care and related topics. Check out the reports section for free PDF downloads.
County Data & Analysis
- County Health Rankings & RoadmapsCollaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation & the University of Wisconsin. "Rankings look at a variety of measures that affect health such as the rate of people dying before age 75, high school graduation rates, unemployment, limited access to healthy foods, air and water quality, income, and rates of smoking, obesity and teen births."
- Local Data: Ohio Department of HealthIncludes county and regional level statistics on a variety of health information topics and conditions.