Top 10 Websites for Nurses
Whether you are looking for important announcement for NCLEX exams, browsing for nursing job offers, searching for scholarship and financial aids for nurses, or you need something to help you relax from the daily stress of your chosen profession, these websites will surely be of great help.
Lippincott’s Nursing Center
www.nursingcenter.com
Lippincott’s NursingCenter.com, a website created by nurses for nurses, is a leading online source for peer-reviewed journals on nursing. It hosts more than 50 nursing journals to provide credible resources to help nurses in practicing their profession. Some of the most important nursing journals that you can find from this website are American Journal of Nursing, Nursing Management, The Nurse Practitioner, and the American Journal of Primary Health Care.
National Council of State Boards of Nursing
www.ncsbn.org
NCSBN.org is the official website of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN), which is an indepenent non-profit organization that brings together boards of nursing in the US to act and counsel together on matters of common interest for the nursing community. This site is your most credible online source for the latest trends in public policy, nursing practice, and nursing education. Nursing students also find this website particularly useful because it disseminates important notices about examinations such as NCLEX-RN, NCLEX-PN, NNAAP and MACE.
ANA’s Nursing World
www.nursingworld.org
Nursingworld.org is the official website of the Americn Nurses Association (ANA), which is the only full-service professional organization in the US representing 3.1 million registered nurses. Aside from serving as the online repository of significant information concerning ANA’s advocacies, the website is also useful for nurses who want advance their careers. The website has a Career Center where nurses can attend webinars, take continuing education courses, and learn more about the organization’s leadership programs.
National League for Nursing(
www.nln.org)
National League for Nursing (NLN) is an professional organization particularly composed of nurse faculty, leaders in nursing education, nurse educators, education agencies, and healthcare organizations. Its official websites, nln.org, is a great online source for networking opportunities, nursing research grants, and public policy initiatives.
Gannet Healthcare Group’s Nurse.com
(www.nurse.com)
Nurse.com is a premier online source for compelling news in the healthcare industry, competitive learning opportunities, and career prospects for nurses. The website is produced by the Gannett Healthcare Group, which is a healthcare media company and one of the largest digital and print publisher of news and information for the RN market in the US. Nurse.com is also the institution behind the Nursing Excellence Awards that honors outstanding nurses in regions of America leading to the selection of National Nurses of the Year.
Allnurses.com
www.allnurses.com
Allnurses.com is a social-networking site designed for nurses and nursing students. Nurses from around the world visits the website to talk about their profession, career opportunities, prospect schools, NCLEX, and many more. You can start a new topic within the pages of the website or write articles about topics that are important about the nursing profession.
American Association of Colleges of Nursing
www.aacn.nche.edu
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is an organization that aims to advance higher education in nursing. It represents 750 schools of nursing at public and private universities across the nation. Aside from its rich educational resources for nursing students, it is also a premier source of nursing scholarships and financial aids available in the US such as the Geraldine “Polly” Bednash Scholarship that offers $5,000 in support to outstanding nursing students at AACN member institutions.
AMN Healthcare’s Nursingjobs.com
www.nursingjobs.com
Nursingjobs.com is a leading website for nurses who are looking for better career opportunities as well as organizations who are looking for nurses to hire. The website serves as a matchmaker between registered nurses and leading employers in the healthcare industry in the US with hundreds of positions posted every day. The website also partnered with the leading travel nurse companies so you can search for jobs that will give you a chance to explore new parts of the country.
Scrubs Magazine
www.scrubsmag.com
Scrubsmag.com is the digital version of the Scrubs Magazine that caters to the personal and professional aspects of healthcare professionals. Apart from significant news in the healthcare community and informative articles on career prospects, the website also features inspirational stories, health and wellness advices, fashion tips, and funny nursing stories.
Nurs Toon
www.nurstoon.com
Take a break and visit nurstoon.com that features funny and witty comic strips created by Carl Elbing.
