PA Program Resource Guide

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

The CDC’s mission is to monitor public health, investigate health problems, and promote health behaviors. This site has specific health and safety topics, a public health image library, and state and national data sets on health and disease.

This consumer health information site contains a hand-selected directory of the health-related web sites of more than 1,500 organizations.

As another consumer health resource, this site brings together information from various government agencies, providing simple but accurate health-related information for the general public. Its medical encyclopedia, drug and herbal supplement information, current health news, & superior interactive tutorials (www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorial.html) are excellent resources for nursing students.

This directory of consumer health information is organized by conditions.

Information about ongoing health services research and public health projects.

A free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the US National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine.

The world's largest medical library.

A site compiling statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve the health of the American people.

Here, the "MD" stands for "Meta Directory" and the University of Iowa's Hardin Library for the Health Sciences is one of the best and most complete directories for medical and health-related links. Hardin MD offers a huge, up-to-date collection of medical images and information.

While aimed at the layperson, nursing students will welcome the plethora of information and tools provided by the Mayo Clinic. The “Tools” section sets this resource apart with its online calculators (including BMI, calorie, heart disease risk), self-assessments, symptom checker, and quizzes.

Here the graphics are interactive, and users can view animation of the system, tutorials, and descriptions. However, users must have a Java-enabled browser, and there is no search capability.

Information provided for each drug includes the description, clinical pharmacology, indication and dosage, side effects and drug interactions, warning and precautions, drug overdose contraindications, and patient information.