Health Links

Health links

CAPNI members would like to share with you our favorite web-sites. These are guaranteed to be interesting and useful. Please check them out and add them to your e-mail address book... you will be glad you did! If you know of any related health website that may be helpful to our readers and is not listed here, please e-mail to the webmaster and we will be glad to add it. Please let us know if any links are no longer valid.

Legislative Links (Indiana Government):

• http://www.state.in.us/legislative
  Home page for Indiana General Assembly... A good place to start from.
• http://www.state.in.us.legislative/legislators/listing.html
  Lists biographs for each legislator, his/her committees, keys accomplishments, etc.
• http://www.IN.gov/serv/lsa_billinfo
  Type the bill number and get the bill, who authored it, the action list, etc.
• http://www.ai.org/legislative/ic/code/
  Look up and print copies of IN code, i.e. Nurse Practice Act and others

Legislative Links (Federal Government):

• http://thomas.loc.gov
  For Federal government, this web does it all--REALLY!

Nurse Practitioner:

• http://www.nurse.org/
  Web links to many other States' Advanced Practice Nursing Orgs
• http://www.aanp.org/
  Home page to American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
• http://www.nurse.org/wa/arnpcare/
  Home page to Advanced Nurse Practitioner Care
• http://nurses.medscape.com/NurseAskExperts
  MedScape Nursing: Ask the Experts; NPs ask questions/get answers
• http://www.icn.ch/
  Home page to the International Council of Nurses a federation of national nurses associations.
• http://www.apea.com/home.htm
  Home page to Advanced Practice Education Associates (APEA)

Nurse Midwife:

• http://www.midwife.org/
  Home page of American College of Nurse Midwives
• http://www.efn.org/~djz/birth/birthindex.html
  Home page of Midwifery, Pregnancy, Childbirth and Breastfeeding
• http://www.midwiferytoday.com/default.htm
  Home page of Midwifery Today
  

Other useful medical links:

• http://www.guideline.gov/
  National Guideline Clearinghouse, a public resource for evidence-based clinical guidelines sponsored by the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality.
• http://www.adata.org
  American Disabilities Act web-site that will answer any ADA question.
• http://www.americanheart.org/
  American Heart Association: information on heart disease, stroke, etc
• http://www.ama-assn.org/med_link/nation.htm
  Links to every NATIONAL MEDICAL SPECIALTY SOCIETY
• http://www.osha.gov/
  OSHA Home page
• http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
• http://www.nih.gov/
  Home page to National Institutes of Health
• http://www.state.in.us/isdh/
  Home page to Indiana State Department of Health
• http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
  National Library of Medicine, get an ID to do a Medline search
• http://www.themedicineprogram.com/
  The Medicine Program, how to get free prescriptions for poor clients
• http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/health/
  Reuter's Health Information (News releases and general health info.)
  http://www.agius.com/hew/
  Health, Environment, and Work, Occupation & Environmental site
• http://www.indiananurses.org/
  Indiana State Nurses Association
• http://www.nursingworld.org/
  American Nurses Association