Helpful Links:
Advance For Nurses - A nursing news magazine, including a good article on HIPPA.
All Experts - Professional nurses from all backgrounds and fields of nursing that are available to answer questions about nursing.
Convert Anything! - a website that will convert just about anything for you
Doclawyers - a website maintained by a law firm in Philadelphia which does only medical malpractice work in support of MDs, hospitals, nurses. A resource website linking you to lots of other good websites for medical information. Go to the section titled "Medical Resources" from there link to an excellent website on lab and diagnostic tests - written in language that patients could understand.
Gray's Anatomy - a searchable version of Gray's Anatomy
Kimball's Biology Page - an interesting site for biology information - search by topic
Merriam-Webster - Merriam-Webster dictionary
Nurseweek - Where nurses come first!
Nursingcenter - a website maintained by the publishers of a number of nursing journals. Numerous nursing articles are available on line; you can also do searches.
VU - link to the university's homepage - you can login there to check email, Novasis, or just browse around