Medtronics

Medtronics is a major supplier of defibrillators, pacemakers, and insulin pumps. Their site has numerous helpful resources in teaching or presenting materials on equipment . Here is the page for patient education. In addition there are physician resources (for nurses too)
In partnership with WEBMD, they have created a visual tool that shows how the heart is affected by arrythmias.

Anatomy Study Resource

Here is a cool resource for studying bones, muscles,and other aspects of anatomy. It is from Loyola University.

Image resources

Gone are the days when you could "steal " an image from another website or from Google images. The expectation is that you use your own images or images that are Creative Common or specified to be used for educational purposes.Below are several excellent resources for images if you need images for your presentations.


http://www.servier.com/SMART/home_smart.asp
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/pictures.html
http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/internet/ImageDatabases.cfm
http://www.healthcarefreeware.com/photo.htm
http://www.healcentral.org/index.jsp

New Cough Etiquette?

Medications for Heart Disease

VideoJug: Heart Disease Medications

Video Jug

Here is a neat website that contains numerous videos. Log in to the Health section and there are numerous educational videos presented by experts.
Here is an example. Click the middle button on the bottom of the video to begin,
VideoJug: Heart Disease Basics

Diabetes PDFs from Diabetes Resource 2007

NCLEX Review

For more videos go to medvids.blogspot.com

Nurse's Christian Fellowship

This weekend a fellow nurse and I attended a retreat in Western New York sponsored by the Nurse's Christian Fellowship. Although a member for the past year, locally I have been unable to be actively involved. It was a great opportunity to meet other nurses who are believers.
For more information here is the link to the website and to Journal of Christian Nursing. Nurse's Christian Fellowship

ACLS Review

This was created using Powerpoint,saving the files as Jpegs and uploading them to Authorstream. The html script was then cut and pasted to be embedded in this post.

HANDLE WITH CARE

For those of you who have been nurses more than 10 years, you already know that nursing is very difficult on your back and knees (and shoulders and neck for that matter). The American Nursing Association has a campaign called HANDLE WITH CARE.

Presently John Conyers has presented a bill to Congress to help our problem
Here is the link to the bill

Write your congressman if you are interested in preserving our joints!!

NLM Gateway

It has been a while since I blogged here. The National Library of Medicine has been in existance for quite some time and has expanded to include numerous data bases for the healthcare provider as well as the consumer. If you haven't looked at it in recent times, here is the link

New Search Engines

Some new search engines include Clusty and Searchmash.
www.dogpile.com is older search link that integrates several search engines.
Ask.com has a new look.
http://www.schoolr.com/ Is a cool search and conversion tool.
Check this multiple search out.http://www.whonu.com/

Free Online Journals

Click on the following link:

Free ONLINE Journals

Critical Care Review

Valve and Heart infections.

Cardiac and MI


These were created with Google Docs and were placed here as an experiment.

Mentoring

Slideshare version.

History of Nursing

Would you like to read books from the past? Google has scanned copies of books and there are several classics to read that show some of the original works of nursing such as Isabel Robb Hampton and Nutting. Go to http://books.google.com
Enter Nursing history and full text and voila you can read really old texts!!

Here is a scanned version of AJN written in 1907 that gives some history of nursing.

Cardiac Link

http://www.interactivephysiology.com/demo/systems/systems/cardio/index.html

Clinical Cases

This is one of my favorite blogs from a physician at the Cleveland Clinic. Ves Dimov is definitely one of the "kindred spirits" in the love of education and the study of medicine.
http://clinicalcases.blogspot.com/

EKG Activity

http://www.maagnursing.com/flash/ecg_activity.html
Margaret Maag's Activty for EKGs