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AllNurses.com

  • An online community for nurses: engage in discussions, track specific nursing topics, access forums, network and more

AllNursingSchools

  • An online directory of nursing education and career information

American Assembly for Men in Nursing

  • Providing a framework for nurses to meet, discuss, and influence factors which affect men as nurses

American Association of Colleges of Nursing

  • Nursing education information, including a list of nurse leader, doctorate, degree completion, and accelerated programs

American College of Nurse Practitioners

  • Focusing on legislative, regulatory and clinical practice issues

Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses

  • Professional news and resources, online CE opportunities and career advice

American Academy of Nursing

  • Comprised of approximately 1700 nursing leaders in education, management, practice and research

American Association of Critical Care Nurses

  • Resources for critical care nurses through journals, products, peer networking, certification exams for CCRN and CCNS credentials as well as continuing education credits (CE) programs.

American Association of Nurse Anesthetists

  • Information guidance and resources on anesthesiology issues

American Nurses Association

  • Services, products and information including certification and credentialing

American Nurses Credentialing Center

  • Credentialing programs and related services

American Psychiatric Nurses Association

  • Fosters excellence in the domains of education, policy, practice, research, and organizational development in the specialty practice of psychiatric-mental health nursing

AORN - Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses

  • AORN is the professional organization of perioperative registered nurses. AORN's mission is to support registered nurses in achieving optimal outcomes for patients undergoing operative and other invasive procedures by providing members with education, standards, services, and representation.

ASPAN - American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses

  • Represents the interests of nurses practicing in all phases of preanesthesia and postanesthesia care, ambulatory surgery, and pain management

Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses

  • Professional association for nurses who specialize in the care of women and newborns

California Nurses Association

  • Includes membership information, news, practice alerts, press releases, newsletter, and consumer information

CANP - California Association for Nurse Practitioners

  • A unifying voice and networking forum for all nurse practitioners in the state of California

CNCC - Coalition for Nursing Careers in California

  • Coordinated through the Coalition for Nursing Careers in California, provides downloadable posters, powerpoint presentations and other tools

CyberNurse 

  • Information on nursing careers, funding sources, nursing programs, advice on finding a job, state board information, clinical guidelines, history of the profession, a humor section

DiscoverNursing.com  

  • Part of Johnson & Johnson’s campaign to attract more people to the profession, develop nurse educators, retain talent.

Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association

  • Devoted to hospice and palliative care nursing and related disciplines

Infusion Nurses Society

  • Promotes excellence in infusion nursing through standards, education, advocacy and outcomes research

International Council of Nurses

  • Links to nursing network topics such as telenursing, disaster preparedness, emergency care, HIV/AIDS; it has a newsroom with press releases

John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing

  • Identifies and develops best practices in nursing care of older adults

Medscape Nurses

  • News, resources, CME and links to related centers and resources

MinorityNurse.com

  • Information targeted at the growing population of minority nurses practicing in the US

National Council of State Boards of Nursing

  • Information on nursing regulation and licensure

National Institute of Nursing Research

  • Nursing research grants and information supported by the NINR

National League for Nursing

  • Devoted to nursing education, online courses in professional development, provides research grants in nursing education

National Student Nurses Association

  • Includes a career center that contains job opportunities (domestic and international), career guidance, education resources, and more

NurseZone.com

  • Online community developed by and for nurses to provide professional and personal development information and opportunities; has information for student nurses, new graduates, and experienced nurses

Oncology Nursing Society

  • Information for oncology nurses, other healthcare providers, people with cancer and their families and friends

Student Nurse Journey

  • An online community devoted to helping nursing students: nursing internship, scholarship information, pre-nursing resources, and more

UC Nurses

  • Information and resources for nurses working in the UC Medical System

 

 

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