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June 6, 2008 - Memory Cards. Read about the different types of memory cards the popular storage medium for many of today's consumer electronics devices, including digital cameras, cellphones, handheld devices and other small electronic devices. (Chapter 2)
http://webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Computer_Science/2007/Memory_card_types.asp
June 5, 2008 - U.S. Department Health and Human Services. (2007, March 12). Protecting the Privacy of Patients' Health Information. Plain English description of HIPAA. (Chapter 19)
http://www.hhs.gov/news/facts/privacy2007.html
June 5, 2008 - Health information technology acronyms (Chapter 14).
http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/acronyms/
May 7, 2008 - Schlachta-Fairchild, Loretta; Elfrink, Victoria; Deickman, Andrea. (2008). Patient Safety, Telenursing, and Telehealth. evidence-based review and recommendations for the use Telehealth and Telenursing as Tools for Patient Safety, authored by yours truly and team. Hope you will all find this publication helpful in advancing the use of Telenursing. (Chapter 8)
http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/docs/SchlachtaL_PSTT.pdf
May 3, 2008 - Simple way to find the date that a Web page was created! (Chapter 6)
April 29, 2008 - Free Course Management System. Moodle is an open source, free software package designedto help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a University with 200,000 students. (Chapter 18)
http://moodle.org/
April 12,2008 - Hoaxbusters. This site is more complete than the CIAC site, but difficult to use. To use it, locate keywords in the index then search on that phrase in Google. (Chapter 5)
http://hoaxbusters.org/
April 12, 2008 - Excel spreadsheet and pdf file comparing various types of hardware, e.g. PDAs, tablets, COWs etc. for nursing documentation. (Chapter 2)
April 4, 2008 - At the AHRQ site you can download booklets that address nursing concerns in many areas including patient safety and evidence-based practice. (Chapter 18)
http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/
March 29, 2008 - Beal, V. (2008, March 21). iPod vs. MP3 Players: What's the Diff? A short article describing exactly what an MP3 player is and the basics of how it can be used. (Chapter 2)
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Hardware_Software/2008/iPod_mp3Player.asp
March 24, 2008 -Hersh, W. What is Medical Informatics. A informative piece with links to different definitions as well as some explanation written by the Professor and Chair, Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University. (Chapter 1)
http://www.ohsu.edu/dmice/about/whatis.cfm
March 7, 2008 - NDNQI Tutorial about assessing pressure sores. (Chapter 18)
http://www.nursingquality.org/NDNQIPressureUlcerTraining/Default.aspx
March 2, 2005 -.Another good one for checking whether something is a hoax. (Chapter 5)
http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/hoaxes/default.asp
February 29, 2008 What You Need to Know About Motherboards:
How a motherboard works inside your computer (2008). Excellent information from Webopedia. (Chapter 2)
http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/motherboards.asp
Februrary 29, 2008 - Common Windows PC Issues: Tips to Diagnose and fix a slow running computer (2008). From Webopedia, this site offers some excellent suggestions and help. (Chapter 2) (Fix the addition date! for all above
http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/slow_computer.asp
December 20, 2007 - Clark, Donald (2004) Concept
of Understanding. This site explains further the data to wisdom theory of nursing
informatics. Excellent site. (Chatper 12)
http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/performance/understanding.html
October 21, 2007 - Personal Digital Assistants:
Practical Advice for Clinicians in 2007 by Andy Craig. Very thorough coverage
of PDAs today. If you have not yet registered for Medscape you will need to
to view this article, registration is free.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/553563
October 20, 2007 - information about Digital Audio Formats (Off site) (Chapter 2).
October 17, 2007 - Added a new section on U.S. Government eHealth Initiatives. (Chapter 13)
October 3, 2007 - General Systems Theory (off site)
October 2, 2007 - American Health Information
Managment Association page on understanding and managing your personal health
information. Provides step by step instructions to creating a personal health
record. (Chapter 7)
http://www.myphr.com/your_record/guide.asp
September 29, 2007 A section about Learning Managment Systems. (Chapter 18)
September 21, 2007 - BreakTheChain.org. Information
about chain letters. (Chapter 5)
http://www.breakthechain.org/reasons.html
September 21, 2007 - This site has links to many
papers about this topic. How do we change our teaching to match today's "N-Gen"?
How do digital immigrants think? Many, many others. If you are wondering how
to approach this generation, read some of these. (Chapter
18)
http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/
September 19, 2007 - Health Information Evaluation Tools. See Chapter 7
September 19, 2007 - Sponsored by the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services, this site allows searching for any conditions.
Results have been vetted. (Chapter 7)
http://www.healthfinder.gov/
September 19, 2007 - Finding Health Information
on the Web. This site has information about finding information as well as guides
to sources. (Chapter 7)
http://www.healthysf.org/searching.html
September 18, 2007 - Usability Professionals
Association. The home page of this organization has links to many helpful sites
including information on ROI. (Chapter 7)
http://upassoc.org/
September 14, 2007 - A new section on readability. See chapter 9
September 14, 2007 - A new section on Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools. See chapter 7
September 14, 2007 A new section about batteries. See chapter 2
September 14, 2007 - Medscape Anatomical Line
Drawings. These cover every system and can be used with or without labels. (Must
register first (free). (Chapter 18)
http://www.medscape.com/pages/features/ald/fb/index-fb
September 10, 2007 - What Makes a Virtual Private
Network Private? From Webopedia, an excellent description of the topic. (Chapter
4)
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2007/virtual_private_network_VPN.asp
September 1, 2007 - Google vs. Microsoft in personal
healthcare records. Discussion of the approaches of both of these giants in
providing online access to one's healthcare information. (Chapter
7)
http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/14/google-vs-microsoft-in-healthcare-records/
August 31, 2007 - An Biometric Identification
System by Extracting Hand Vein Patterns. Journal of the Korean Physical Society,
Vol. 38, No. 3, March 2001, pp. 268272. (Chapter
19)
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3fi8,1,jv3r,f0re,ek2t,hmlx
August 31, 2007 - This August 31, 2007 site presents
a great overview of social networking, what it is, how they work, and the ideas
behind them. (Chapter 4)
http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/social_networking_sites.asp
August 20, 2007 - Cases and Examples of ECGs. To gain full
advantage you need to register - which is free. Would be very helpful to anyone
teaching ECGs. (Chapter 18)
http://en.ecgpedia.org/wiki/Cases_and_Examples
August 11, 2007 - Strunk and White's Elements of Style.
Yes, the entire book! (Chapter 9)
http://www.bartleby.com/141/
August 10, 2007 - Williams, J. P. (2003, April 22). Groupware:
Shared Thoughts, Shared Media, and Shared Models. A white paper from the School
of Information at the University of Texas. (Chapter
3)
http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~i385tkms/blog/archives/patrick/groupwarepaper.html
August 9, 2007 - Medicaid & Home Telehealthcare: It’s
Time (2007, August). This site discusses advantages for home telehealthcare
in this population. Links to some interviews with managers of home healthcare.
http://www.informationfortomorrow.com/community/LookHomeward0807.htm
August 5, 2007 - Prelinger Archives. Founded in 1996 this
site Archive has historical texts, audio, moving images, and software as well
as archived web pages that are available for reuse as well as repurposing without
paying any royalties. (Chapter 18)
http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger
August 3, 2007 - Open Medicine. Access is free to
all, but you must first register. (Chapter
6 Online Journals)
http://www.openmedicine.ca/
August 3, 2007 - Actual job descriptions in nursing informatics.
(Chapter 12)
http://www.informaticsnurse.com/forums/archive/index.php/f-35.html
July 24, 2007 - Beginner's Research Guide. This is a self-paced
tutorial about nursing resources. It includes information about searching, locating
books, locating article citations, finding journals, and database tutorials.
(Chapter 15)
http://library.nyu.edu/research/health/tutorial/beginners.html
July 24, 2007 - PubMed. Although PubMed finds articles
that are not open access, if you select the "Limits" tab and check
"Links to full free text" the search will produce only those articles
that are "open access" to all. To reach the article from the list
click on Links opposite the title, then click on LINK OUT and follow the directions.
(Chapter 6)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/
July 23, 2007 - Mrs. Reynolds Needs a Nurse. Many of you may
remember this film from school days. It is not available for free viewing on
the Web. Uniforms are dated, but the information is still current. (Chapter
18)
http://www.son.washington.edu/about/h_mrs-reynolds.asp
July 22, 2007 - BMJ Updates provides a searchable indeix to
current best evidence from medical research. Some searches will produce the
full text, others, links to a site from which they may be purchased. You need
to register to use this site, but it is free. You may also register for periodic
emails about areas of interest. (Chapter 15)
http://bmjupdates.mcmaster.ca/index.asp
July 6, 2007 - Data Flow Diagrams. A textual description with
instructions for creating. (Chapter 16)
http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~renaat/ca2/ca214/ca214v.html
July 6, 2007 - Overview of flow charting. Is from an engineering
standpoint, but short, simple, and to the point. (Chapter
14)
http://deming.eng.clemson.edu/pub/tutorials/qctools/flowm.htm
July 5, 2007 - Surgery Videos. - Demonstras. This site for
medical professionals provides videos of many different surgical procedures,
somenarrated, others not. Users must register, but there is no charge. Once
registered, you can search for the type of surgery that you wish to view. (Chapter
18)
http://www.demonstras.com/index.php
July 4, 2007. Alliance for Nursing Informatics. This site
is a good place to discover information about any of the various nursing informatics
organizations . It is a collaboration of nursing informatics organizations that
represents more than 3,000 nurses and brings together 20 distinct nursing informatics
groups in the United States. (Chapter 12)
http://www.allianceni.org/
July 1, 2007. Unotron Keyboards. "Washable keyboards
from Unotron are just that: washable. More than just a damp cloth across the
surface of the keys, Unotron keyboards can withstand being run under a faucet.
They are the first mass market PC keyboards certified washable to international
IP66 and NEMA4X standards." (Chapter 2)
http://www.unotron.com/US/ProductsMedical.html
June 27, 2007. Slim KeyMD. This device is a sealed, industrial
silicone keypad with extremely low-profile keys. It can be cleaned with any
disinfectant and is backlit so it can be used in low light settings. (Chapter
2)
http://www.ikey.com/medical/
June 26, 2007 -A tutorial for using CINAHL (Chapter
17)
http://www.hscl.ufl.edu/help/CINAHL/index.htm
June 15, 2007 - Videoconferencing Cookbook, Version 4.1.
If you are considering this method of education, or are curious about what it
entails take time to investigate this resource. (Chapter 8)
http://www.vide.net/cookbook/cookbook.en/#4579683264182627367
June 2, 2007 - Alternative Journal of Nursing.
A wholistic journal of nursing that explores the evolution of the nursing profession.
(Chapter 6 Online Journals)
http://www.altjn.com/
May 29, 2007 - Power Point slides on many different topics
and PDF Files
are available free from this site at Lippincott-Williams & Wilkins. Take
a trip there and peruse all the topics. (Chapter
18)
http://www.nursing2004.com/pt/re/nursing/educators.htm;jsessionid=GcphPVZ2b9NfnYvKdMn18fQWkvCh7GyGGV1ZV71bydT3pMSbL4BZ!-712222271!-949856144!8091!-1
May 28, 2007 - How to use the spell check in your email software. (Chapter 4 - Email Spellcheck)
May 25, 2007 -What you need to know about cookies. A good
description of cookies, along with information on how to get rid of them. (Chapter
4)
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2007/all_about_cookies.asp
May 22, 2007 - Web Quests. This is the home page for a new
form of learning. A Web Quest is a model for designing effective Web-based instructional
activities. They focus on analyzing, synthesizing, and problem solving rather
than finding Web resources. Can be designed for individual or group activities.
(Chapter 18)
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/
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