Working the Web: A Guide for Nurses

by Bliss, Julie B.; DeYoung, Sandra

• ISBN13: 9780130617880
• ISBN10: 0130617881
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: PRENTICE HALL HEALTH

Summary

This is a small Internet guide specifically for nurses. It consists of five chapters, all providing a brief overview on how to use the Inter net. It concludes with a very comprehensive appendix of annotated nurs ing URLs divided by more than 20 topics. This book could be value-pack ed as a companion to any PHH nursing title (LPN, RN, MSN), or it can b e sold as a stand-alone guide.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Reviewers	xi
Getting Started	1	(8)
How the World Wide Web Began	1	(2)
Choosing a Computer	3	(1)
Selecting a Browser	3	(1)
Connecting to an Internet Service Provider (ISP)	4	(5)
Using the World Wide Web	9	(6)
E-mail	9	(2)
E-mail Etiquette	11	(1)
Listservs	12	(1)
Newsgroups	13	(1)
Chat Rooms	13	(2)
Searching the World Wide Web	15	(6)
Search Tools	15	(2)
Subject Directories	17	(1)
Basic Search Techniques	17	(1)
Advanced Search Techniques	18	(3)
Being Cautious	21	(6)
Criteria for Evaluating WWW Sites	22	(2)
Privacy Issues	24	(3)
Selecting Courses	27	(6)
Types of Courses	27	(1)
Evaluating Suitability of Courses and Programs	28	(2)
Are Distance Learning Courses for You?	30	(1)
Locating Online Courses and Programs	31	(2)
World Wide Web Sites and Their Ratings	33	(62)
Allergy	33	(1)
Alternative and Complementary Medicine	34	(1)
Anatomy and Physiology	35	(3)
Care Plans	38	(1)
Community Health Nursing	39	(2)
Consumer Health Information	41	(2)
Continuing Education	43	(2)
Critical Care Nursing	45	(3)
Critical Thinking	48	(1)
Culture	48	(1)
Databases	49	(1)
Death and Dying	50	(1)
Evidence-Based Practice	51	(2)
Gastrointestinal Nursing	53	(1)
Gerontological Nursing	54	(2)
Grant Sources	56	(1)
Health Assessment	57	(2)
History of Nursing	59	(1)
Holistic Nursing	60	(1)
Hospice	60	(1)
Humor	61	(2)
Infection Control	63	(1)
Listservs and Newsgroups	63	(1)
Maternal-Child Nursing/Midwifery	64	(1)
Medical Coding and Billing	65	(1)
Medication Calculation	66	(1)
Mental Health Nursing	67	(1)
Microbiology	68	(1)
NCLEX Review	68	(1)
Neurological Nursing	69	(1)
Nurse Practitioners	69	(1)
Nursing Languages	70	(3)
Nursing Theory	73	(1)
Nutrition	73	(1)
Oncology Nursing	74	(1)
Online Journals	75	(2)
Orthopedics	77	(1)
Pain	78	(2)
Pathophysiology	80	(2)
Pediatrics	82	(3)
Perioperative Nursing	85	(1)
Pharmacology	85	(1)
Professional Organizations	86	(3)
Rehabilitative Nursing	89	(1)
Respiratory Nursing	89	(1)
School Nursing	90	(1)
Statistical Concepts and Calculations	90	(1)
Telehealth	91	(1)
Urology	91	(1)
Women's Health	92	(1)
Wound Care	93	(1)
Miscellaneous Sites	93	(2)
Index	95

Excerpts

Many of us began using the Internet in a hit-or-miss, trial-and-error fashion. If we were lucky, eventually we found what we were looking for. However, when you are using the Internet for professional purposes, a systematic, informed approach is much more efficient and will produce quality information that you can use to benefit yourself, your colleagues, and your patients. This book is designed to be a useful manual for the novice or intermediate-level Internet user. The first five chapters of this book contain the background information needed to get you up-to-speed quickly. We then progress to more advanced information on searching the Web and protecting your privacy. Chapter 1describes the Internet and the equipment and resources needed to access it. Means of connecting to the Internet are explained, as is the logic of Web site addresses. Chapter 2covers Internet applications, including e-mail, e-mail etiquette, and mailbox use. Also covered are listservs and their use, newsgroups, and chat rooms. Chapter 3explores World Wide Web search techniques. Search engines and metasearch engines are defined, and examples are given. Basic and advanced search techniques using Boolean logic are explained. Chapter 4encompasses means by which you can evaluate the quality and usefulness of Web sites. This will help you decide which Web sites you can have faith in. Privacy issues with Internet use are discussed. Chapter 5deals with continuing education and college courses that can be found online. Criteria for evaluating the courses are included, as well as criteria for helping you decide if online learning is for you. Chapter 6encompasses the rest of the book, and it contains over 300 Web sites that we believe are potentially useful to nursing students and practicing nurses. The sites are categorized by functional unit, such as Anatomy and Physiology, Care Plans, Evidence-Based Practice, History of Nursing, Medication Calculation, Orthopedics, Pain, and Women's Health. Each Web site has been evaluated by us as to clarity of purpose, currency. credibility, content accuracy, and design, and each site has been given a rating from * (poor) to **** (excellent). Our annotations of the sites indicate the most useful nuggets of information that can be found there. For additional resources and exercises, go to the free Companion Website accompanying this book at www.prenhall.com/bliss . We believe you will find this book helpful as you seek to use the incredible resources found on the Internet. We hope you will also find it enjoyable. Have fun! Julie Bliss Sandra DeYoung