LibGuides: Nursing Undergraduate: Web Resources

Evaluating Health Sites

Separate the Trash from the Treasures!

Who sponsored it? Who wrote it?
- How credible are they?
- Tip: pharmaceutical companies are not unbiased!
Accuracy
- Is it factual or opinion-based?
- Is the information verifiable?
Currency
- Is the information recent?
Audience
- Was it written for professionals or patients?

MedlinePlus Guide to Healthy Web Surfing
MLA's Guide to Evalauting Health Websites
More information on evaluating health websites
The C.R.A.A.P. Test
A guide to help you ask the right questions as you evaluate your sources.

Study and Skills Resources

A Glossary of Common Medical Terms
NCLEX Prep - Sample Questions & Exam Preview
NCLEX Prep - Test Plans
NLM/NIH - Learning Resources Database
- Online tutorials, videos, and other instructional materials
MedlinePlus - Health Check Tools
- Assess your health with interactive tools such as calculators, quizzes, and questionnaires. You can check your risk for heart disease, calculate your ideal weight and body mass, find out how many calories your favorite exercise burns, and more.
MedlinePlus - Games
- Boost your health knowledge by playing interactive health games.
Practical Clinical Skills - Lessons, Quizzes, Guides
- Lessons, quizzes, drills, and guides created by healthcare professionals and healthcare educators

Online Anatomical Resources

BioDigital Human
Visualize anatomy, disease, and treatments in interactive 3D
Innerbody
Explore human anatomy, physiology, and genetics.
Zygote Body
Free and paid features.

Top Consumer Health Web sites

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A consumer-oriented Website established by the National Library of Medicine, the world's largest biomedical library. It searches many excellent websites.

Cancer.gov
Official website for The National Cancer Institute (NCI), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), one of eight agencies that compose the Public Health Service (PHS) in the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
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For cancer patients and their families
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Diseases, conditions, and other special topics arranged under "Health Topics A-Z," and "Travelers' Health". There are also sections on health topics in the news and health hoaxes. Also in Spanish.
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Diseases, conditions, health topics, traveling & health, health hoaxes, etc.
familydoctor.org
All of the information on this site has been written and reviewed by American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) physicans and patient education specialists.
Healthfinder.gov
Reliable consumer health information collected by the government such as: online journals, medical dictionaries, minority health, and prevention and self-care, etc.
HIVinSite
University of California San Francisco (UCSF) AIDS Research Institute designed as a gateway to in-depth information about particular aspects of HIV/AIDS, it provides numerous links to many authoritative sources.
Kidshealth.org
Doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence. Created by The Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health Media, KidsHealth provides families with accurate, up-to-date, and jargon-free health information.
Mayo Clinic
Editors of the site include more than 2,000 physicians, scientists, writers, and educators at the Mayo Clinic, a nonprofit institution with more than 100 years of history in patient care, medical research, and education. The Website has added interactive
MMWR
The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) series is prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It is a scientific publication of timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations.