Nursing
Anatomy & Physiology
Blood
Blood
This excerpt from John W. Kimball’s online biology textbook covers the blood’s function, cells, and cell fragments.
Blood Typing Game
“In this game you have to blood type each patient and give them a blood transfusion. Are you able to do that? If not, maybe you should read the introduction to blood typing before you start; otherwise you will put the patients’ lives in danger!”
Bloodline Image Atlas
“This fully searchable directory features more than 800 hematological slides depicting various blood disorders and malignancies.” One can use a categorical index or keyword search to access the images.
Get Body Smart’s Blood and Blood Cell Quizzes
Includes visual quizzes for hematocrit, total RBC count, blood typing, WBC differential count, and clotting (coagulation) time.
Hemosurf – Demo
View normal and abnormal white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets.
Cardiovascular System
Within athletic training, kinesiology, and nursing also see the section for blood. Within medical technology, also see the section for hematology. Within osteopathic medicine, also see the section for hematology within the molecular fundamentals of medicine section.
Anatomy of the Heart
Construct a heart circulation model and assemble a human heart.
Cardiovascular System Topics
Includes three animated series on the cardiac action potential, the cardiac cycle, and blood pressure regulation. Note from Dr. Fitzovich on the cardiac action potential tutorial: “Be careful about control of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) calcium release in cardiac cells because it is mediated by calcium influx, not depolarization of the SR. Also note that a ‘funny current’ due to a special sodium channel is responsible for the pacemaker function.”
HeartScape
Includes a review of and quizzes on cardiac anatomy and physiology. Covers the mechanical and electrical structures of the heart. For additional quizzes, please click here.
Learn Your Arteries
Click on images to learn the names of the various arteries in the body.
Map of the Human Heart
Provides an anatomical diagram of the heart and has a moving image of how blood moves through the heart.
Shockwave animations
Includes animations of heart circulation, an EKG, a graph of pressure readings and ventricular volume, and a graph of heart sounds. Also includes brief tutorials on atrial systole, isovolumetric contraction, rapid ejection, reduced ejection, isovolumetric relaxation, rapid ventricular filling, and diastasis.
Cats
Anatomically Correct: The Online Cat Dissection
View cat dissection videos and take quizzes on anatomy and physiology of the digestive, urogenital, and respiratory organs.
Cat Dissection Videos
View videos on skinning the cat, the muscular system, the circulatory system, the urogenital system, the nervous system, and the digestive and respiratory systems.
Muscular System
Quiz yourself on cat muscles.
Virtual Cat Dissection
This Pennsylvania State University website includes labeled images of the circulatory, digestive, muscular, nervous, respiratory, skeletal, and urogenital systems.
Zoology 225 Video Dissection Guide
This University of Alberta website contains videos of cat dissection. Quicktime is required to view the videos and may be freely downloaded from the site.
Cells
Links for Anatomy and Physiology and MFM Animations, Movies, and Interactive Tutorials
Click here for links to animations, movies, and interactive tutorials for general references, chemistry, biochemistry, cellular structure and function, mitosis/meiosis, cellular transport; DNA replication, sequencing, and mutation; transcription and translation, cellular respiration and enzymes; skin, skeleton, and joints; muscular system, neurons and synapse action, membrane potentials/action potentials, central nervous system; drugs and neurotransmitters and mental disorders; special senses, and the endocrine system. Click here for links to animations, movies and interactive tutorials for general references, the cardiovascular system, blood circulation, blood, lymphatic and immune system, respiratory system, urinary system; fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base homeostasis; digestive system, metabolism, reproductive system, embryology and development, and genetics.
Cell Motility, Myosin, and Extravasation
The eight-minute-long video entitled “Inner Life” shows cell motility. Page also includes a link to a detailed animated tutorial on myosin that focuses on myosin 2 and myosin 5 and a link to an animated tutorial on rolling neutrophils, integrin activation, transendothelial migration, and extravasation in leukocytes (neutrophils, lymphocytes, and monocytes).
CELLS alive!
Interactive exercises allow you to examine cell structures, see the stages of mitosis, and learn about the immune system, the cell cycle, cell structure and function, and microbes.
Cellular transport animations
Following an overview, this website provides annotated animations on membranes, diffusion/osmosis, passive transport, and active transport.
Protein synthesis animation
Provides detailed, annotated animations on protein synthesis.
Digestive System
Abdominal Organs
Place the abdominal organs in their correct locations.
Dissection Images & Videos
Ithaca College Gross Anatomy Joints – labeled dissection images for joints
Laboratory Dissections Practice Practical
Choose an area of the body on the right to see quizzes for cadaveric images of the head and neck, thorax, abdomen, pelvis and perineum, back, osteology, upper extremity, and lower extremity. Click on “table of contents” at the top of the screen, choose a section, and then click on “laboratory dissection procedure” to see cadaveric images in which you can click on items for them to be pointed out in the image.
LUMEN Dissector – videos
Medical Gross Anatomy Learning Resources – videos (click on “More Features” and then “Dissection videos”)
Embryo
Development of Human Embyrology
See the section for newer animations based on the Carnegie Collection.
Embyrology Images Online
This companion website for books by William J. Larsen includes animations, updates, self-tests, and glossaries. Chapters cover the first week, second week, third week, fourth week, peripheral nervous system, embryonic folding and lungs, heart, vasculature, gastrointestinal tract, urogenital system, limbs, head and neck, central nervous system, integument, and fetal development. Not every chapter includes animations or updates.
Human Embryology Animations
This Indiana University Web site includes numerous developmental animations by system and body area.
Human Embyrology Chapters
This UNC School of Medicine website includes images, some animated, for body form, the musculoskeletal system, head & neck, ear, eye, nervous system, cardiovascular system, urogenital system, and the digestive & respiratory systems.
Multi-dimensional Human Embryo Atlas
Includes MRI and optical images of the embryo in Carnegie stages 13-23.
The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Embryology – Human Embryology Movies
Includes numerous animations of development for weeks 1-4 and some regions/systems. Includes sectional images here. Podcasts are available here.
The Visible Embryo
“The Visible Embryo is a visual guide through fetal development from fertilization through pregnancy to birth.” Click on the fetus to learn about fetal development; clicking on the curved line leads one to information on maternal symptoms.
Eyes
Association of Technical Opticians
There are numerous helpful pages within the “Categories” section, which is on the middle of the right side of the page. Click on “visual field” to see simulations of visual field defects. For other helpful simulations and materials, see also “simulators,” “surgery,” “pupil reflex,” “diagnostic tests,” and “anatomy.” For a simulation of vision as seen through various eye related conditions, click on “software,” and click on “previous entries” until you see the entry for “simulator software;” the simulation is a zip file that can be downloaded.
Eye Simulation Application
See what happens when to eye movement and pupil dilation when nerves and muscles are not working.
General A&P Resources
Links for Anatomy and Physiology and MFM Animations, Movies, and Interactive Tutorials
Click here for links to animations, movies, and interactive tutorials for general references, chemistry, biochemistry, cellular structure and function, mitosis/meiosis, cellular transport; DNA replication, sequencing, and mutation; transcription and translation, cellular respiration and enzymes; skin, skeleton, and joints; muscular system, neurons and synapse action, membrane potentials/action potentials, central nervous system; drugs and neurotransmitters and mental disorders; special senses, and the endocrine system. Click here for links to animations, movies and interactive tutorials for general references, the cardiovascular system, blood circulation, blood, lymphatic and immune system, respiratory system, urinary system; fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base homeostasis; digestive system, metabolism, reproductive system, embryology and development, and genetics.
AnatQuest
One section provides “cut-away views of the front, side and top of the entire male body.” The other section labels anatomic objects in the male chest area.
BBC – Human Body and Mind
Play drag-and-drop games to test your abilities to correctly place items in the muscular and skeletal system. Quiz yourself on nervous system connections and the senses. Learn interesting facts about physiology.
Get Body Smart
Includes exceptional interactive tutorials on the human skeletal system, muscular system, muscle tissue physiology, nervous system, circulatory system, respiratory system, urinary system, and histology. One may turn labels off to quiz oneself on anatomy.
Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body
Includes the full-text of this landmark publication along with over 1,000 images and a subject index with 13,000 entries.
HHMI’s BioInteractive
Includes animations on hearing, heart circulation, and invasions of bacteria and viruses. Includes modules on obesity, cancer, neuroscience, cardiovascular, DNA, RNA, biological clocks, infectious diseases, immunology, and genomics and chemical genetics.
Medical Gross Anatomy Learning Resources
This University of Michigan Web site includes dissection videos, objectives (see list of sessions), clinical cases, anatomy tables that provide descriptions and significance for body parts, learning games (crossword puzzles, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Anatomy Jeopardy); tutorials, some of which include quizzes (see learning modules); practice quizzes, labeled models that can be rotated (see QuickTime VR Movies), radiology images, surface anatomy (good for the anatomy fashion show), and surgical videos.
Primal Anatomy
Includes interactive modules with text for the head and neck, axilla, spine, thorax & abdomen, knee, hip, hand, pelvis & perineum, and foot. Also includes a study guide and test bank. Also includes essential regional anatomy, acupuncture anatomy, and pilates anatomy. Also includes surgery videos and animations for the axilla, knee, knee arthroplasty, hip arthroplasty, and podiatric medicine.
The Anatomy Lesson
Includes numerous practice examinations and examination keys. Also includes numerous modules with radiological images and cross-section drawings.
The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education
Includes over 1900 images as well as tutorials, laboratory exercises, and examination items. Along with pathologic images, it also includes images of normal anatomy and neuroanatomy from The Visible Human Project. Also includes electron microscopy histology images, tutorials for histotechniques and special stains; and procedure manuals for routine stains, special stains, and laboratory safety.
Visible Human cross sections
Includes CT, MRI, and labeled and unlabeled cross-sectional images.
Heredity
Links for Anatomy and Physiology and MFM Animations, Movies, and Interactive Tutorials
Click here for links to animations, movies, and interactive tutorials for general references, chemistry, biochemistry, cellular structure and function, mitosis/meiosis, cellular transport; DNA replication, sequencing, and mutation; transcription and translation, cellular respiration and enzymes; skin, skeleton, and joints; muscular system, neurons and synapse action, membrane potentials/action potentials, central nervous system; drugs and neurotransmitters and mental disorders; special senses, and the endocrine system. Click here for links to animations, movies and interactive tutorials for general references, the cardiovascular system, blood circulation, blood, lymphatic and immune system, respiratory system, urinary system; fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base homeostasis; digestive system, metabolism, reproductive system, embryology and development, and genetics.
DNA replication animation
This detailed animation includes audio and subtitles.
DNA workshop activity
In this activity, you must match bases to make two new DNA strands, match DNA and RNA bases to make a mRNA strand, and match tRNA anticodons to mRNA codons. Requires Adobe Shockwave to run properly.
Sex-linked inheritance problem set
Click on the Tutorial button for explanations on how to solve the problems.
Immune System
Host Defense
Includes drag-and-drop quizzes on the components of the specific and nonspecific host defense system.
Muscular System
Also see the muscular system section of the Get Body Smart website for origins, actions, attachments, innervations, and animations of movements.
Facial Muscle Action Illustrated
In the drawing, click on a muscle to see videos of its action(s) and read information about it.
Get Body Smart Muscle Tissue Physiology
Tutorials cover the location and organization of muscle fibers, nerve supply to muscle fibers, and contraction of muscle fibers. Quizzes cover general characteristics of muscle fibers and internal organization of muscle fibers.
Learn Your Muscles
For each muscle, it provides an image that highlights the muscle and provides information on origin, attachments, action, and innervation. Muscles are listed in alphabetical order or by region.
Muscle Atlas – Upper Extremities and Lower Extremities
Upper extremities: http://www.rad.washington.edu/atlas/
Lower extremities: http://www.rad.washington.edu/atlas2/
Depicts each muscle and gives information on origin, attachments, action, and innervation. Muscles are listed in alphabetical order.
Muscle contraction animations:
Purdue North Central
San Diego State University College of Sciences
Wiley.com
Wisc-Online – Online Learning Object Repository – hit the next button to see the animations
Superficial Muscles Tutorial
This interactive website helps one learn the names and locations of major superficial muscles.
Nervous System
3-D Brain Anatomy
Learn the locations and functions of major brain sections on this 3-D model that you can rotate and zoom within. You can also explore the brain by area or function.
Animations
Includes animations on the chemical synapse; membrane-bound receptors, g proteins, and Ca2+ channels; voltage gated channels and the action potential; sodium-potassium exchange; function of the neuromuscular junction; and action potential propagation in an unmyelinated axon.
Cranial Nerves – Introduction
Provides an anatomical diagram of the cranial nerves, lists their functions, and allows you to take quizzes on the information. Also has a quiz on cranial nerve trivia.
Cranial Parasympathetics
Click on a nucleus to see the pathway.
Interactive Neuroanatomy Atlas
Within each section of this atlas from Columbia University are numerous images with listings of contents on which you can click an item to see it highlighted in the image. Click on “select lab here” at the top of the screen to choose one of the following sections: surface anatomy, internal structure, vasculature, somatic sensory system, sensory cranial nerves, visual system, auditory system, descending motor pathways, cerebellum, basal ganglia, vestibular and oculomotor systems, hypothalmus, limbic system, clinical case images, atlas – myelin stained sections, atlas – surface anatomy, and magnetic resonance images.
Learn Your Cutaneous Innervation
Has anterior and posterior views for the upper and lower extremities showing areas innervated by particular nerves.
Learn Your Nerves
Click on drawings to learn the names, spinal cord segment(s), and muscular innervation(s) of individual nerves for the cranial nerves, cervical plexus, brachial plexus, and lumbosacral plexus.
Pathway Quizzes in Neuroanatomy
Includes eighteen quizzes for pathways in the anterolateral system, dorsal column, visual system, and more.
Synaptic Transmission
Includes an animation of a synaptic transmission at a neuromuscular junction. Also includes a three-question quiz.
The 12 Cranial Nerves
This interactive tutorial includes cute animations to show what the cranial nerves control.
The Brain: Anatomy and Function
Learn about the functions and deficits associated with brain structures and test yourself on brain functions.
The Plastinated Brain
View frontal, transversal, and sagittal slices. Also includes surface anatomy, vascular anatomy, and MR tomography.
The Whole Brain Atlas
View normal and abnormal CT, MRI, and PET images.
Radiologic Anatomy
HEAL Normal and Abnormal Chest X-Rays
Click “skip intro.” Click “review normal” for an overview of normal radiographic anatomy of the chest and instructions on how to interpret a chest x-ray. Click “go to first case” to view 10 cases of common abnormalities. Within the cases, you can click on an icon to view a normal x-ray.
Introduction to Radiology (Includes Chest Radiology)
This University of Virginia School of Medicine website includes modules for chest radiology, ICU chest films, hi-resolution chest CT, CT pulmonary angiography, cardiac MR, radionuclide localization, gastrointestinal radiology, genitourinary radiology, emergency body CT, emergency ultrasound, testicular ultrasound, imaging of the cervical spine, skeletal trauma, head CT, the basics of PETCT, pediatric radiology, and radiobiology. Modules include sections for anatomy, interpretation, pathology, and a post test. The post test for chest radiology includes 30 tests on anatomy, technique, and pathology.
LUMEN Cross-Sectional Tutorial
Includes MRI, CT, and images for cross-sections of the following regions: head and neck, upper limb, thorax, abdomen, pelvis, and lower limb. Includes male and female thorax and pelvis cross-sections. Note from Shannon King: in cross section # 8 in the lower limb section, the answer to #1 should be tibialis anterior instead of extensor digitorum.
LUMEN Radiological Anatomy
Includes plain film, CT, and MRI images. Click on the image for anatomical labels.
Radiographic Anatomy of the Skeleton
View labeled and unlabeled images. Click on a structure to learn its name.
Radiopaedia.org
Includes encyclopedia entries and patient cases contributed by residents and physicians. The browse by section area includes anatomy and mnemonics.
The Plastinated Brain
View frontal, transversal, and sagittal slices. Also includes surface anatomy, vascular anatomy, and MR tomography.
The Whole Brain Atlas
View normal and abnormal CT, MRI, and PET images.
Visible Human cross sections
Includes CT, MRI, and labeled and unlabeled cross-sectional images.
Skeletal System
Skeletal System
Provides detailed quizzes on labeling bones and landmarks. Write down your answers and compare them to the correct answers.
Skull Anatomy Tutorial
Includes interactive images for four basic views of the skull: one anterior, one lateral, and two inferior.
Spine: Normal Anatomy
Click on “Spine: Normal Anatomy” to see moving images of the spine and learn about its anatomy and physiology.
The Bone Box
Provides quizzes on the names of bones and landmarks.
The eSkeletons Project
Choose Human under the heading, “Select A Taxon.” By choosing a bone from a pull-down menu and then clicking “Launch Bone Viewer,” one can see dorsal, ventral, medial, lateral, proximal, and distal views of the bone. One can also see its morphology, origins, attachments, and articulations.
The Skull Practical Exam
Take quizzes on the skull parts and landmarks.
Tissues
Animal Tissues
Includes images and information on epithelial, muscle, connective, nerve, and blood tissues.
Upper Extremities
Hand Kinesiology
Provides diagrams and information on the hand’s bone and joint structure, ligament structure, muscle arrangement, and nerve distribution.
Inside the Shoulder Joint
Illustrates and describes anatomical components of the shoulder joint.
Learn the Brachial Plexus in Five Minutes or Less
Shows how to draw a diagram of the brachial plexus.
Urinary System
Interactive Kidney Illustration
Includes simplistic illustrations and descriptions of anatomical components of the kidney.
Nephron Function
Click on the circles beside proximal tubule, loop of Henle, distal tubule & collecting duct, and overview. Register for free with MedEd Portal to view this and other resources.
Physiology of the Kidney
This University of Kansas School of Medicine Web site includes detailed objectives, numerous figures, and quizzes.
Auscultation
The Auscultation Assistant
Includes audio files of heart murmurs and breathing sounds.
The R.A.L.E. Repository
Click on “Repository” to read an introduction or listen to sounds: normal (vesicular, tracheal, bronchial, and bronchovesicular), wheezes (3), crackles (3), and other sounds (grunting, stridor, and squawk).
Virtual Stethoscope
To hear normal heart sounds, click on “What’s S1 and S2?” To hear audio files of heart murmurs, normal breathing sounds, crackles, wheezes, and emphysema, choose “Virtual Stethoscope” within the upper pull-down menu on the left and then choose “Cardiovascular” or “Respiratory” within the lower pull-down menu on the left. For quizzes and additional tutorials and information, choose “Physical Exam,” “Pathophysiology,” or “Quizzes” within the upper pull-down menu.
Dermatology
Classic Type I-IV Hypersensitivity Reactions in the Skin
View animations of the mechanisms, see clinical photos of the reactions, learn about differential diagnosis and histology, and take quizzes on the reactions.
VisualDx
VisualDx includes an interactive tool for finding differential diagnoses based on visual findings. Includes information on conditions with visual findings. Also includes components for international travel, child abuse recognition, terrorism recognition, oral mucosa, drug eruptions, external eye visual findings, fever and rash, smallpox vaccination, CA-MRSA, pressure ulcer staging, marine exposures, cellulitis differential diagnosis, female anogenital visual findings, male anogenital visual findings, immunocompromised conditions, nail and distal digit visual finding; and bites, stings, and infestations.
Diagnosis
Diagnosis Pro
Enter signs and symptoms to receive a listing of possible diagnoses; to do this, search for one sign or symptom, choose it, and then click narrow results to add an additional sign or symptom. Also provides disease information as well as a disease comparison tool.
Nursing Diagnosis Handbook, 7th edition, library book website
Includes case studies and a care plan constructor. Requires free registration to access materials.
ECGs
Cardiovascular System Topics
Includes three animated series on the cardiac action potential, the cardiac cycle, and blood pressure regulation. Note from Dr. Fitzovich on the cardiac action potential tutorial: “Be careful about control of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) calcium release in cardiac cells because it is mediated by calcium influx, not depolarization of the SR. Also note that a ‘funny current’ due to a special sodium channel is responsible for the pacemaker function.”
ECG Quizzes Lessons 1-12
Includes a variety of quizzes on ECGs.
ECG Wave-Maven
This Harvard Web site allows you to quiz yourself, search cases by diagnosis, and browse cases with diagnoses.
EKG 12 Lead Placement Activity
Place the twelve EKG leads in the correct locations.
EKG 5 Lead Placement Activity
Place the five EKG leads in the correct locations.
Electrocardigram (ECG/EKG) Library
Provides examples of ECGs for numerous conditions.
Heart: Rhythm Disorders
Describes and animates the electrical events for normal sinus rhythm and atrial fibrillation.
Introduction to ECG Interpretation
This is an EKG primer used by University of Wisconsin Medical School.
Shockwave animations
Includes animations of heart circulation, an EKG, a graph of pressure readings and ventricular volume, and a graph of heart sounds. Also includes brief tutorials on atrial systole, isovolumetric contraction, rapid ejection, reduced ejection, isovolumetric relaxation, rapid ventricular filling, and diastasis.
The Six Second ECG
Learn arrhythmias and then play a game in which you have to identify them. For quizzes that cover rhythms, ACLS algorithms, and drugs, click here. To view the pages properly in Internet Explorer 8, you must click on the button for “compatibility view.”
Free Resources
ADA Technical Assistance CD-ROM
Receive a free CD-ROM of ADA guidelines from the U.S. government.
ADVANCE for Nurses
Nursing school students and nursing professionals are eligible to receive this free print subscription. To get to the online subscription form from the home page listed above, click on the link for “Subscribe” in the middle portion of the left side of the page. You can also call 1-800-355-1088 to get the free print subscription. A free email newsletter comes with every free print subscription. You must choose a region of the country to get to the actual subscription form.
Altimate Medical
Free products include DVD and VHS videos on EasyStand products, an interactive CD-ROM, “Life After SCI” DVD, funding guide to standing technology, EasyStand Evolv brochure, and a Standing 101 educational package. Fill out the form on the website above to receive one or all of these items.
Amputee Coalition of America
Receive amputee-related materials and a free subscription to In Motion magazine. All materials are aimed at amputees.
Health for Women
Partnered with the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), this peer-reviewed quarterly consumer periodical is available free in bulk for nurses to distribute to patients.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Science-related DVDs, videotapes, CD-ROMs, and publications are available to scientists, educators, and librarians.
NEWS-Line Communications
Click on your occupation — nurses, occupational therapists and COTAs, physical therapists and PTAs, and radiology professionals. Click on “Subscriptions” on the left side of the page. Choose a user name. Complete the registration information. NEWS-Line Communications offers a free monthly print magazine and a free weekly email news update. One can choose to receive either or both of them.
NIH MedlinePlus Magazine
This quarterly guide for patients and families “brings the latest and most authoritative medical and healthcare information from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as featured online on the MedlinePlus website.”
Nursing Spectrum
RNs who live in one of the sponsored distribution areas are entitled to a free subscription. See website to determine locations of sponsored distribution areas.
Radiological Terrorism: Just in Time Training for Hospital Clinicians, VHS tape or DVD
This is “a brief, 17-minute video covering key radiation principles and radiological procedures. Includes demonstrations on application of these principles and procedures in several patient care scenarios in an emergency services setting.” It can be viewed online, or you can request a free copy. “To order copies of the training in VHS or DVD format, send an email message to cdcinfo@cdc.gov, indicating VHS or DVD format, the number of copies, mailing address, and phone number. Please indicate “Radiological Just in Time Training” in your request.”
Radiological Terrorism: Medical Response to Mass Casualties CD-ROM
“The program is designed for physicians and nurses working in emergency services in hospital first receiver settings.” It can be viewed online, or you can request a free copy. “To order a copy of the CD-ROM version, which is designed for Windows®2000 or XP, send your mailing address to cdcinfo@cdc.gov, indicating the number of copies.”
Rehab Management
To get to the form from the home page listed above, click on the link for “Free Subscription” on the left. The subscription form can be found at http://www.submag.com/sub/rm.
Stroke Connection Magazine
This page consists of the form that needs to be completed to get a free bimonthly subscription to this American Stroke Association magazine that is aimed at stroke survivors.
Tools RG
Tools RG provides a demo CD that includes sketches of exercises that can be used with patients. Click on “Request a Demo CD” on the right side of the page.
Games, Simulations, and Tutorials
Arterial Blood Gas – Learning Activity
This is a brief, animated tutorial that covers the function and normal values of the the arterial blood gases.
Basic Knot Tying and Suturing
This Boston University Medical Campus Web page includes step-by-step textual instructions, images, and videos for the one hand tie, two hand tie, instrument tie, simple interrupted stitch, and vertical mattress stitch. Links to videos are located after the instructions on the suture pages. Only includes video for loading a needle holder. Only includes textual instructions and images for the basic square knot.
Blood Typing Game
“In this game you have to blood type each patient and give them a blood transfusion. Are you able to do that? If not, maybe you should read the introduction to blood typing before you start; otherwise you will put the patients’ lives in danger!”
Medical Calculations Tutorial
Click on “Start the MedCal Tutorial Without Credit” to avoid registering and logging in. Three modules cover fractions, decimels, liquid volume conversions, dosage calculations, medication administration, intravenous therapy, and more.
Painless Pain Management Simulation
In this simulation, you are “in charge of caring for a post-op cancer patient — administering, adjusting and monitoring his medication.” To begin the simulation, Click on “Begin Simulation” on the left side of the homepage.
Teaching Immunization Delivery and Evaluation (TIDE)
“TIDE is intended to be a flexible tool to teach immunization delivery….We use clinical scenarios to trigger problem solving and discussion. There are five self-contained modules” with free CE credit available.”
The Six Second ECG
Learn arrhythmias and then play a game in which you have to identify them. For quizzes that cover rhythms, ACLS algorithms, and drugs, click here. To view the pages properly in Internet Explorer 8, you must click on the button for “compatibility view.”
General Medical Resources
Current Events and News
General Medical Information
Also see the government resources.
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
Includes downloadable PowerPoint presentations, evidence-based medicine tools, downloadable research articles, and information on courses and events.
eMedicine
Free registration allows one to view over 6,500 frequently-updated articles written on a wide variety of topics by over 10,000 contributors.
Familydoctor.org
The American Academy of Family Physicians provides a medical dictionary, a drug guide, and information on health concerns and self-care.
MayoClinic.com
Provides information on conditions, diseases, health conditions, and prescription drugs. Provides healthy lifestyle planners for achieving and maintaining a healthy weight, exercising, managing stress, and quitting smoking.
NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
Primarily provides information on anatomy, conditions, diseases, and mental health topics.
YourHealthInformation.com
In addition to current news on conditions and diseases, this website provides a drug resource center, a source for investigating symptoms, and explanations for medical tests and procedures.
Government Resources
Statistics
CDC: Data and Statistics
This clearinghouse includes interactive tools, publications, vital statistics, statistics by topic, and an annual report on trends in health statistics.
HIT: Health Information Tennessee
Includes reports, tables, vital statistics, health facilities data, and county profiles.
National Center for Health Statistics
This statistical arm of the CDC provides vital statistics and statistics on disease classification, healthy people, minority health, injuries, and aging. Additional data is culled from data collection systems which include the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), the National Health Care Survey (NHCS) , the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), and the State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey (SLAITS).
General Nursing Resources
National Institute of Nursing Research
The NINR supports extramural and intramural research, trains investigators, assists with locating contacts, and disseminates relevant information.
North Carolina Eastern Area Health Education Center’s Health Occupation Education Lesson Plans
Affliliated with Eastern Carolina University, this website includes video clips on blood pressure measurement and patient transfers.
Health Literacy
Health Literacy Studies, Harvard School of Public Health
The overview section provides a video, In Plain Language (15 minutes), and a slide presentation. The Web site includes reports, patient materials, and bibliographies. Also includes information on how to create and assess print materials.
Health Literacy Videos Online
Includes links to two videos created by the AMA Foundation: “Health Literacy and Patient Safety: Help Patients Understand” (23 minutes) and “Low Health Literacy: You Can’t Tell by Looking” (18 minutes).
Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion, Institute of Medicine, Washington, D.C.
One may read the entire book online by clicking on the book cover and then clicking “read this book online, free!”
Misperceptions of Medical Understanding in Low-Literacy Patients: Implications for Cancer Prevention
One may read the entire book online and/or view a short video on the report.
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy, Boston, Massachusetts
To see relevant materials, conduct a search for health literacy using the Google NCSALL Site Search.
Smith on Social Marketing: 90 Million Americans Need Health Literacy
This brief article provides tips for improving health literacy.
Medical Law
Federal Law
Congressional Acts (U.S. Code) and Current Legislation (Bills)
U.S. Supreme and Federal Court Opinions
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/index.html
http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/courts/index.html
Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations and other Federal Publications
State Law
Tennessee General Assembly – Public Acts and Statutes and Current Bills
Federal and State Agencies
General Directory of Federal Agencies
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
U.S. Government Accounting Office
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Office for Civil Rights (HIPAA)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
Tennessee Department of Health
Medical Healthcare Law Search Engines
Medical Terminology
MedlinePlus Medical Dictionary
This dictionary results from a partnership between the U.S. National Library of Medicine and Merriam-Webster.
mondofacto Online Medical Dictionary
Contains over 140,000 definitions with internal links for further clarification of definitions.
Web Anatomy: Self Tests for Medical Terminology
Includes three quizzes on prefixes, suffixes, and roots. Most terms cover the cardiovascular system.
Mental Health
Janssen’s MINDSTORM
“This experience simulates a severe episode of auditory and visual hallucinations.”
Spot the Fake Smile
Twenty videos of smiles test you on whether you can spot if a smile is genuine or fake.
Nursing Research
National Institute of Nursing Research
The NINR supports extramural and intramural research, trains investigators, assists with locating contacts, and disseminates relevant information.
The practice of nursing research: Conduct, critique, and utilization (5th ed.)
This is the student companion website to a book that is similar to the current textbook for the course.
Organizations
Faculty Nursing Organizations
General Nursing Organizations
State Nursing Organizations
Specialty Nursing Organizations
Pathophysiology
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Health Topics A to Z
Provides information on transmission, treatment, and prevention of diseases.
Eye Simulation Application
See what happens when to eye movement and pupil dilation when nerves and muscles are not working.
Healthfinder Health Library: Diseases and Conditions
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides this free guide to consumer health resources, including websites, online publications, databases, and more.
MEDLINEplus: Health Topics
The U.S. National Library of Medicine provides medical encyclopedia entries and interactive tutorials that cover prevention, causes and risks, symptoms, signs and tests, and treatment for numerous illnesses and conditions.
Micromedex
This is a comprehensive medical reference on drugs, diseases, acute care, toxicology, alternative medicine, and patient education and care. It includes information on drug interactions, IV compatibility, and drug comparisons. Also includes a drug identification tool, calculators, and formularies. Disclaimer: According to license restrictions, this resource can only be used for educational and training purposes by Lincoln Memorial University students and faculty in the health sciences and is not to be used for any clinical care, emergency, or commercial purpose. Do not access this resource from a clinical setting.
Office of Rare Diseases
Provides access to current events and archived news articles, general information, genetics information, research and clinical trials, and research resources.
The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, Seventeenth edition
Coverage of illnesses and conditions varies in depth and length, with the more detailed entries providing information on symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, etiology and pathogenesis, and more.
UpToDate
This is an evidence-based resource with over 80,000 pages of original, peer-reviewed text. It offers comprehensive information for clinicians and patients in the following areas: adult and pediatric emergency medicine, adult primary care and internal medicine, allergy and immunology, cardiovascular medicine, drug information and interactions, endocrinology and diabetes, family medicine, gastroenterology and hepatology, hematology, infectious diseases, nephrology and hypertension, neurology; obstetrics, gynecology, and women’s health; oncology, pediatrics; pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine; and rheumatology. Surgery content is currently being added. Information in UpToDate on drugs and drug interactions is provided by Lexi-Comp.
Pharmacology
About Herbs, Botanicals and Other Products
This information resource is provided by Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s Integrative Medicine Service.
ASHP Drug Product Shortages Management Resource Center
“The purpose of this resource center is to provide pharmacists and others responsible for patient care and for drug product acquisition and inventory management with appropriate information, sources of information, and guidance about managing drug product shortage” situations.
DynaMed
DynaMed includes information on drugs and conditions. It has clinically-organized summaries for more than 3,000 topics that are in an outline form that can be used efficiently in clinical settings. DynaMed is updated daily and monitors the content of over 500 medical journals and systematic evidence review databases directly and indirectly by using many journal review services. Each publication is reviewed cover-to-cover, and each article is evaluated for clinical relevance and scientific validity. The new evidence is then integrated with existing content, and overall conclusions are changed as appropriate representing a synthesis of the best available evidence. Through this process of systematic literature surveillance, the best available evidence determines the content of DynaMed. You can click on “recently updated” to see the entries that have been modified today and learn what was changed.
You may wish to click on “Weekly Update” periodically to read the latest update or sign up for the free weekly email. Prepared by the clinician members of the DynaMed Editorial Team, DynaMed Weekly Update is a compilation of blurbs about one to five articles selected from DynaMed’s Systematic Literature Surveillance as articles most likely to change clinical practice. This source will be helpful for finding articles for the journal club.
DynaMed provides free PDA access. Please email Lisa Travis at lisa.travis@lmunet.edu to request a serial number to download it to a PDA and use it for one year; you can renew your PDA access after a year if you are still affiliated with LMU-DCOM.
Epocrates Online
One must register and create your own login for this resource. Includes information on diseases, drugs, and drug interactions. Also includes helpful tables.
Food and Drug Information: Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
Check here for the latest alerts.
Medical Calculations Tutorial
Click on “Start the MedCal Tutorial Without Credit” to avoid registering and logging in. Three modules cover fractions, decimels, liquid volume conversions, dosage calculations, medication administration, intravenous therapy, and more.
MedWatch: The FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program
Reports safety information and adverse events for medications and medical devices. You can sign up to receive free emails of the alerts.
Micromedex
This is a comprehensive medical reference on drugs, diseases, acute care, toxicology, alternative medicine, and patient education and care. It includes information on drug interactions, IV compatibility, and drug comparisons. Also includes a drug identification tool, calculators, and formularies. Disclaimer: According to license restrictions, this resource can only be used for educational and training purposes by Lincoln Memorial University students and faculty in the health sciences and is not to be used for any clinical care, emergency, or commercial purpose. Do not access this resource from a clinical setting.
Painless Pain Management Simulation
In this simulation, you are “in charge of caring for a post-op cancer patient — administering, adjusting and monitoring his medication.” To begin the simulation, Click on “Begin Simulation” on the left side of the homepage.
PDR.net
Registration is required for membership, and membership is free to U.S.-based medical students and residents as well as MDs, DOs, NPs, and PAs in full-time patient practice. Provides access to PDR eBooks, PDR’s concise drug information, full FDA-approved product labeling, a multi-drug interaction checker,
STAT!Ref Medical
STAT!Ref Medical provides access to 35 electronic medical books, including several books that contain detailed drug information.
UpToDate
This is an evidence-based resource with over 80,000 pages of original, peer-reviewed text. It offers comprehensive information for clinicians and patients in the following areas: adult and pediatric emergency medicine, adult primary care and internal medicine, allergy and immunology, cardiovascular medicine, drug information and interactions, endocrinology and diabetes, family medicine, gastroenterology and hepatology, hematology, infectious diseases, nephrology and hypertension, neurology; obstetrics, gynecology, and women’s health; oncology, pediatrics; pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine; and rheumatology. Surgery content is currently being added. Information in UpToDate on drugs and drug interactions is provided by Lexi-Comp.
Physical Assessment
Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination
Includes physical examination videos of systems, body regions, and patients by age. Unlike other databases, your user name is your full email address. Use Internet Explorer; the videos do not play properly in Firefox.
Online Physical Exam Teaching Assistant
Includes videos of abdomen exam, cardiovascular exam, eye exam, HEENT exam, neurologic exam, vital signs, chest exam, musculoskeletal exam.
Online Physical Exam Teaching Assistant: A Pediatric Assistant
Has videos for four developmental stages: infant (newborn to 12 months), toddler (1 year to 4 years), child (4 years to 10 years), and adolescent (10 years to 18 years).
Theorists
Nursing Theorists Overview
Click on “PDF for all the bibliographies” to view bibliographies of works by major nursing theorists.
Nursing Theorists: Portraits of Excellence Volumes 1 and 2
These FITNE collections of online videos cover numerous nursing theorists. Volume one includes videos on Virginia Henderson, Dorothy Johnson, Imogene King, Madeleine Leininger, Myra Levine, Betty Neuman, Margaret Newman, Florence Nightingale, Dorothea Orem, Rosemarie Parse, Ida Orlando Pelletier, Hildegard Peplau, Martha Rogers, Sister Callista Roy, Reva Rubin, and Jean Watson. Volume two includes videos on Patricia Benner, Helen Erickson, Afaf Meleis, Merle Mishel, Nola Pender, and Pamela Reed.
Women’s Health
Electronic Fetal Monitoring
This free online tutorial for CME credit includes a self-guided tutorial, practice quizzes, case scenarios, videos of fetal tracings, and more.
The Global Library of Women’s Medicine
Free registration allows one access to videos of basic techniques, laboratory tests, and surgical procedures and techniques. Also includes book chapters, atlases, and patient information.