Professional development resources

Associations

Emergency Nurses Association (ENA)
The specialty nursing association serving the emergency nursing profession through research, publications, professional development, and injury prevention. ENA's mission is to provide visionary leadership for emergency nursing and emergency care.

Ontario Hospital Association
The Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) is a voluntary association representing the hospitals in Ontario. The Association's principal role is leadership and advocacy on behalf of its members, in the interests of Ontario's health care system. OHA represents hospitals needs and views to government, other organizations and the public.

Ontario Nurses Association
The Ontario Nurses' Association is a trade union representing more than 45,000 registered nurses and allied health professionals.

Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
The Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) is the professional association representing registered nurses in Ontario. It is the strong, credible voice leading the nursing profession to influence and promote healthy public policy.

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Journals

Annals of Emergency Medicine
The official publication of the American College of Emergency Physicians and the specialty's leading peer-reviewed journal.

Electronic Journals

Emergency Nursing World
The Web's practice-based resource for Emergency Nurses.

The Internet Journal of Advanced Nursing Practice
This is a peer reviewed journal. Every published article has been reviewed by members of the editorial board and the editor-in-chief. All articles are archived by Internet Scientific Publications LLC and recognized by The Library of Congress Catalog of Publications.

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Research

MD Consult
This is undoubtedly the fastest and most efficient method of obtaining full text articles from a variety of resources. Founded by leading medical publishers that include Mosby and W.B. Saunders, MD Consult integrates peer-reviewed resources from over 50 publishers, medical societies, and government agencies.

Medline
A great research portal, among the leaders in article research and delivery. Its mission: to facilitate efficient, affordable, and innovative methods of distributing published materials to end-users, while protecting the rights of the information provider.

Medscape
Medscape's mission is to improve healthcare by delivering products and services that provide reliable, digital clinical data and up-to-date information to healthcare professionals and consumers.

Ovid Medical Interest Page
Hundreds of hospitals and medical schools around the world use Ovidīs integrated information solutions to access key bibliographic databases, full text journals, evidence-based medicine resources and reference texts.

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Internet beginners - Online resources

Internet Guides by John December
One of the pioneers of the Internet, John December provides you with information and links to information regarding everything under the sun related to the Internet.

Netiquette
This informational document provides a minimum set of guidelines for Network Etiquette (Netiquette).

The Core Rules of Netiquette
Learn Netiquette basics by reading this concise overview of network etiquette excerpted from the book Netiquette by Virginia Shea. Shea's "Core Rules" are the classic introduction to the subject and are widely cited in cyberspace. Check out this site's fun netiquette quiz!

Adobe PDF
You may find articles for download in the increasingly popular Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF). Adobe PDF is a universal file format that preserves all of the fonts, formatting, colours, and graphics of any source document, regardless of the application and platform used to create it. In order to view the files you need Adobe Acrobat® Reader™. Download your free copy of Acrobat Reader here.

The Two Bobs
Bob Pritchard and Bob Saint are a regular feature on Toronto's 640 AM talk radio station. These gurus share a wealth of knowledge regarding computing, software, trends, etc. A really great resource with lots of computer info and free downloads.

Frety.net
A web link directory with homepage thumbnails.

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