NURSING REFERENCES

NURSING REFERENCES FOR EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE

1. Advanced Directives http://uslwr.com/formslist.shtm
2. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality http://www.ahrq.gov
3. American Association of Colleges of Nursing http://www.aacn.nche.edu
4. American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org
5. American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) http://www.acog.org
6. American Heart Association http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/
7. American Hospital Association www.aha.org
8. American Nurses Association http://www.nursingworld.org
9. American Nurses Attorney Association http://www.taana.org
10. American Psychiatric Association https://www.psychiatry.org
11. CAM (Confusion Assessment Method) http://www.consultgerirn.org/uploads/file/trythis/issue13_cam.pdf 
12. Bureau of Labor Statistics https://www.bls.gov
13. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov
14. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services www.cms.hhs.gov
15. Center to Advance Palliative Care https://www.capc.org
16. Clinical Key for Nurses https://www.clinicalkey.com/nursing/#!/
17. Clinical Pharmacology http://www.clinicalpharmacology-ip.com/default.aspx?token=%7drl%7emmposn!+nr%7bm%7bkml%7esq%7e%7cpq!sokk
18. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission https://www.eeoc.gov
19. Food and Drug Administration http://www.fda.gov
20. Healthcare Finance and Administration https://www.tn.gov/hcfa/
21. Healthy People 2020 https://www.healthypeople.gov
22. Institute for Safe Medication Practices www.ismp.org
23. Legal Health Care Concerns https://www.whitehouse.gov/healthreform
24. Mini-Cog (to assess delirium and dementia) http://www.alz.org/documents_custom/minicog.pdf
25. NANDA International http://www.nanda.org
26. National Academy of Science http://www.nasonline.org
27. National Cancer Institute https://www.cancer.gov/about-nci/organization
28. National Center on Elder Abuse https://ncea.acl.gov
29. National Council of State Boards of Nursing https://www.ncsbn.org/nurse-practice-act.htm
30. National Heart, Lung, andBlood Institute (NHLB) https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov
31. National League of Nursing http://www.nln.org
32. National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF) https://www.nof.org
33. National Patient Safety Foundation www.npsf.org
34. National Priorities Partnership www.nationalprioritiespartnership.org
35. NEECHAM Confusion Scale http://www.unc.edu/courses/2005fallnurs/213/001/neuropsychiatric/neecham.html
36. NIH Senior Health https://nihseniorhealth.gov
37. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion https://health.gov
38. Texas Medical Institute of Technology TMIT www.safetyleaders.org
39. The Institute for Health Care Improvement www.ihi.org
40. The Joint Commission www.jointcommission.org
41. The Just Culture Community www.justculture.org
42. The National Association for Home Care & Hospice http://www.nahc.org
43. U.S. Administration on Aging, Eldercare Locator https://aoa.acl.gov
44. U.S. Census Bureau https://www.census.gov
45. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services http://www.hhs.gov
46. U.S. National Library of Medicine https://www.nlm.nih.gov
47. U.S. Preventative Service Task Force https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org
48. World Health Organization WHO http://www.who.int/topics/en/