Psychiatric-Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist: Related Websites

Web Sites of Interest

Here is a collection of on-line resources for Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and related topics of interest.

Nursing Practice

• American College of Nurse Practitioners:
  http://www.nurse.org/acnp/

• NP Web (check):
  http://unhinfo.unh.edu:70/0/unh/acad/health/npract/index.html

• Nursing Network Forum (Lots of good links to journals, specialty pages, etc.):
  http://www.nursingnet.org

• NP Central, from Nurse Practitioner Support Services:
  http://www.nurse.net/np/

• Health Web nursing resource:
  http://healthweb.org/

• Idea Nurse (By Peter Rammes) (somewhat political):
  http://ideanurse.com/

• Lippincott Publishing (American Journal of Nursing):
  http://www.nursingcenter.com

• American Nurses Association:
  http://www.nursingworld.org

• Virtual Hospital - University of Iowa:
  http://indy.radiology.uiowa.edu

• Sigma Theta Tau - Zeta Chapter
  http://www.nursing.umn.edu/STTI

• American Association of Neuroscience Nurses:
  http://www.aann.org

• American Psychiatric Nurses Association:
  http://www.apna.org/

• Nursing World:
  http://www.nursingworld.org

Government WWW Sites:

• Clinical practice guidelines from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (also has technology assessments):
  http://www.ahcpr.gov

• National Institute for Nursing Research (information about funding):
  http://www.nih.gov/ninr/

• Food and Drug Administration (FDA):
  http://www.fda.gov

• Department of Health and Human Services:
  http://www.os.dhhs.gov/

• National Library of Medicine:
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

• Minnesota Legislature:
  http://www.leg.state.mn.us

• National Institute of Mental Health:
  http://www.nimh.nih.gov/

Health Education Sites for General Public:

Several of the sites listed above for nurses also have information aimed at the public. Nearly all national "disease-specific" organizations maintain a web site with information and support group access.

• NetWellness (Ohio Valley Community Health Information Network):
  http://www.netwellness.org/

• The Federal Government's site for searching "prescreened" health information sites:
  http://www.healthfinder.gov