Online resources to help you succeed in all your subjects througout your curriculum. Click your subject below:
Fundamentals/Practical Skills
Auscultation Assistant
Heart sounds, heart
murmurs, and breath sounds to help medical professionals improve their diagnostic skills.
Clinical Skills Online
Online videos demonstrating core
clinical skills.
Guidelines for Isolation
Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings 2007
From the CDC, the most
important, up-to-date guidelines on isolation and infection control in all healthcare settings.
FreeNurseTutor.com
Learning modules and
activities covering all aspects of nursing education. Includes videos, games, and more.
HealthScout Video Library
From ADHD to
pancreatic cancer, find a video about it here.
Infection Control Guidelines
From the
Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the latest guidelines on infection control.
MedicalMnemonics.com
A free, non-profit online
database of mnemonic devices to help medical professionals remember the important details. Includes downloadable
palm/PDA programs.
Nursing Documentation
Information on and links
to proper documentation skills, from Medi-Smart.
R.A.L.E. Repository
Digital recordings of respiratory sounds in health
and disease.
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Medical-Surgical
AIDSinfo
From the NIH, AIDSinfo features the latest federally
approved information on HIV/AIDS clinical research, treatment, and prevention, as well as medical practice guidelines for
people living with HIV/AIDS, their families and friends, health care providers, scientists, and researchers.
CancerSource.com
A comprehensive site for
information on cancer for patients and the people who care for them.
Critical Care Medicine Tutorials
Six tutorials on critical
care: Introduction to Critical Care, Problem Oriented Approach, Respiratory Failure, Shock,
Renal Failure, and Sepsis.
Guidelines for Isolation
Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings 2007
From the CDC, the most
important, up-to-date guidelines on isolation and infection control in all healthcare settings.
HealthScout Video Library
From ADHD to
pancreatic cancer, find a video about it here.
Heart Health
Information, animations, and
illustrations on all aspects of the heart in health and disease.
Heart Institute Encyclopedia
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center's online encyclopedia of pediatric heart diseases, diagnoses, and treatments.
HeartPoint
Online multimedia news and information resource on
heart health and other health topics.
Infection Control Guidelines
From the
Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the latest guidelines on infection control.
National Comprehensive Cancer Network
A site covering all
aspects of cancer for health care providers and cancer victims and their families. Includes evidence-based guidelines, drug
information, and more.
Nurse Bob's MICU/CCU Survival Guide
An outstanding critical care
nursing site with information on all aspects of critical care, from basic protocols to reading EKG's.
OECzone.com
A Jones & Bartlett site devoted to Outdoor
Emergency Care, with useful interactive simulations, anatomy reviews, and more.
OR Live
Video website featuring live, realtime webcasts of cutting
edge surgeries being performed in Operating Rooms around the world.
Practice Standards
for Electrocardiographic Monitoring in Hospital Settings
From the American Heart Association, a scientific statement
from the Councils on Cardiovascular Nursing, Clinical Cardiology, and Cardiovascular Disease in the Young.
Chronic Wound Healing
An excellent
tutorial on chronic wounds and their healing.
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Pharmacology
ABX Guide
The online version of Johns Hopkins' comprehensive
"POC-IT" antibiotics guide that provides concise and up-to-date information on the treatment of infectious diseases
in adults.
NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards
From the National
Institute for Occupational Health and Safety, The NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards (NPG) is a source of general
industrial hygiene information on several hundred chemicals/classes for workers, employers, and occupational health
professionals, to help users recognize and control occupational chemical hazards.
Nursing Reference
Center
The Nursing Reference Center database from EBSCOhost offers the latest, most up-to-date drug information from
Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses and AHFS Drug Information Essentials. Offsite login required.
Study Stack: Pharmacology
Online flashcards to help you study pharmacology.
RxList
A free online index of drugs.
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Maternal/Infant
The Maternal & Child Health Library
From Georgetown University, a compendium of resources on maternal, infant, and child health.
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Pediatrics
Caring for Children and Families
An e-book from NetLibrary. Access restricted to Galen students and faculty. NetLibrary login required.
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Psych/Mental Health
Mental Health Care for Nurses : Applying Mental health Skills in the General Hospital
An e-book from NetLibrary. Access restricted to Galen students and faculty. NetLibrary login required.
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Leadership & Management/Ethics/Nursing Theory
Code of
Ethics For Nurses
Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements, from the American Nurses Association.
Nursing Theory Page
Links to
information about Nursing Theory, from the University of San Diego.
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Evidence-based
ClinicalEvidence Glossary
A
glossary of evidence-based medicine terms.
Evidence-Based Practice Tutorial for
Nurses
The four steps to implementing an evidence-based nursing practice, with much more information, from Penn
State University.
CINAHL : Cumulative Index
to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
Full-text access to the definitive nursing literature database with access
to over 2800 indexed and 500 full-text journals.
MEDLINE Full-text
Full-text access to over 1200 medical journals indexed in the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database.
National Guideline Clearinghouse Index
The browsable, searchable index to the public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, from the U.S.
government's Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (AHQR).
Nursing Reference
Center
An exciting new evidence-based, nursing specific database, with CINAHL and MEDLINE integrated but also with
patient care sheets,legal case sheets, continuing education,Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses, and much, much more!
PubMed
The National Library of
Medicine's database with access to over 16 million citations from over 5,000 peer-reviewed journals--some with full-text
links.
Research & Clinical Resources for Evidence Based
Nursing
A compendium of links and tools for evidence-based nursing.links.
Trip Database - Clinical Search Engine
"A clinical search tool designed to allow health professionals to rapidly identify the highest quality clinical evidence." Free registration required for use.
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NCLEX
Cliff's TestPrep NCLEX-PN
From NetLibrary, a NCLEX review e-book for LPN/LVN. Access restricted to Galen students and faculty. NetLibrary login required.
Cliff's TestPrep NCLEX-RN
From NetLibrary, a NCLEX review e-book for RN. Access restricted to Galen students and faculty. NetLibrary login required.
McGraw-Hill Review for the NCLEX-RN Examination
From NetLibrary, a NCLEX review e-book. Access restricted to Galen students and faculty. NetLibrary login required.
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Informatics
Medline Plus Guide to Healthy Web Surfing
A guide to critically evaluating internet resources, from the National Library of Medicine.
National Forum on Information Literacy
A forum about information literacy, with definitions of the different types of literacy, and much more.
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English & Humanities
APAStyle.org
An online guide from the American Psychological Association, excerpted from the 6th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Includes a beginner's tutorial on The Basics of APA Style, and much more!
APA Formatting and Style Guide
An APA
formatting and style guide from The Owl at Purdue, with excellent links in the sidebar to different styles of writing.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
An online dictionary of the
1919 edition of the gold standard of quotation dictionaries.
Dictionary.com
Free online multi-source dictionary.
Merriam-Webster Online
The familiar Merriam-Webster dictionaries, in
several variations, plus a thesaurus and a Spanish/English dictionary.
Project Gutenberg
Over 17,000 free literature and
classics e-books online, in over 40 languages and in a variety of formats--including audio books.
Thesaurus.com
Free online multi-source thesaurus.
Writer's Resources: APA
A
convenient online APA citation style guide from The Writer's Workshop at the Center for Writing Studies at The University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Anatomy & Physiology/Microbiology
Study Stack: Anatomy
Online flashcards to help you study
anatomy.
Study Stack: Physiology
Online flashcards to help you
study physiology.
Study Stack: Biology
Online flashcards and study tools
to help you study biology and microbiology.
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Mathematics
Finding and Using Health Statistics: A Self-Study
Course
From the National Library of Medicine, a self-guided course on how to find and use health statistics.
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