Clinical Supervision:
http://www.clinical-supervision.com/
Surprisingly a site about clinical supervision! UK and an excellent resource.
Nursing Theories:
http://www.ualberta.ca/~jrnorris/nt/theory.html
Just about the only nursing theories site you will ever need!
Organisations:
World Health Organisation Homepage. Many good resources here, including one of the most comprehensive links pages I have seen.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/nhcon/nuuk.htm
'The UK Nursing Page'. contains a huge amount of links, some useful some not. Worth a look?
Nursing Bodies:
The UKCC Homepage. Provides information surrounding hot professional issues, recent publications in downloadable format, and a wealth of other valuable information.
The English National Boards Homepage. Contains links to information and publications, as well as information about the role of the ENB.
Nursing Unions:
Listings of services provided by the RCN and news from the RCN arena.
http://www.unison.org.uk/home/index.htm
The Unison Homepage.
Nursing Publications:
The Nursing Times Home Page. News and hot issues.
http://www.nursing-standard.co.uk/
The Nursing Standard Home Page. News and hot issues.
Online Journals:
http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/index.html
Online evidence based healthcare journal, links to many subjects and cutting edge developments.
The Health Service Journal. Uptodate info about the NHS
Journal Search:
http://www.findarticles.com/PI/index.jhtml
A free search facility which allows you to download/print articles for free.
http://www.nursing-standard.co.uk/archivesfr.htm
The Nursing Standard search page which allows the downloading/printing of a wide variety of research based articles for free.
http://www.infotrieve.com/medline/healthworks/
An access point which allows for free searching of MEDLINE, AIDSLINE, and TOXLINE.
Government/DoH Sites:
http://www.hmso.gov.uk/cgi-bin/empower?DB=reshmso
HMSO's search engine. Allows you to search for any act passed through the Houses of Parliment
http://www.doh.gov.uk/dhhome.htm
Homepage, with links to 'search' etc. useful to find government docs i.e. 'our Healthier nation', National Service Frameworks' etc.
http://www.doh.gov.uk/coinh.htm
DoH Circulars.
http://pipe.ccta.gov.uk/coi/coipress.nsf/gdh
DoH press releases.
Primary Health Care information.
http://www.nice.org.uk/nice-web/Cat.asp?pn=professional&cn=toplevel&ln=en
National Institute for Clinical Excellence's Homepage. This link takes you to the professional section.
National Electronic Libary for Health. Contains links to many publications, government documents, searchable databases etc, excellent!
Health Promotion:
Information regarding the Health action Zones
http://www.hea.org.uk/hpic/hpic.html
The Health Promotion Information center. Links to relevant publications etc
http://healthpromis.hea.org.uk/
The national Database for HP. Provides a search engine for HP documents.
Contains information about 'Our healthier Nation', progress reports etc.
Midwifery:
A good site with many links to useful information.
Online Medical Dictionaries:
http://www.sciencekomm.at/advice/dict.html#med
Huge list of online medical dictionaries!
Software Downloads:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Download the Adobe Acrobat reader, essential for opening up the evermore popular pdf files.
Winzip is a simple to use tool that allows you to open compressed zip files, a popular internet format.
Search Engines:
A UK site to search for all things medical (and some things nursing).
Google is rated as top search engine on the net for finding what you actually want and as this is the safe search it filters out the more unsavoury elements of the internet....