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Free Breast Cancer Web Modules

By Rebecca | Published: March 16, 2009

The University of Maryland School of Nursing has developed free web modules for practicing nurses that cover the most current information about breast cancer.  These web modules were created because of a partnership between the university and the Maryland Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
Want to earn CE for the web modules?  [...]

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Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project

By Rebecca | Published: March 9, 2009

Need data on patient discharge or patient demographics?  The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (or called H-CUP) is a group of health care databases and related tools for research and decision making.  HCUP, which is sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), has the following databases:

State Inpatient Databases (SID)
State Ambulatory Surgery Databases [...]

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Medicaid Benefits by State

By Rebecca | Published: March 2, 2009

Need to know Medicaid benefits for Illinois or another state? The Kaiser Family Foundation has a free database of Medicaid benefits by state. The data is from 2003, 2004, and 2006.  It includes what is covered, limits, co-payments and reimbursement methodologies for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the Territories like [...]

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Free Breast Cancer Risk Databases

By Rebecca | Published: January 26, 2009

Looking for information on breast cancer risk? Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the Silent Spring Institute’s Environmental Factors and Breast Cancer Science Review have collaborated on two databases about breast cancer risk.  The first database, Epidemiology Reviews Database, has reviews of approximately 450 articles reporting on human breast cancer studies.  The other database, [...]

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Free Lactation and Drug Database

By Rebecca | Published: November 5, 2008

Want to know how a particular drug’s effect on a breastfeeding mother and her baby?  LactMed (Drugs and Lactation Database) is a free, peer reviewed database from the National Library of Medicine that includes information on levels of various drugs and chemicals effects on breast milk and the baby.  The database may also recommend alternate [...]

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Free Publishing Newsletter for Nurses

By Rebecca | Published: October 6, 2008

NurseAuthorEditor is a free, quarterly newsletter that has articles about writing, editing, and publishing as a nurse.  It covers preparing a manuscript, editing and reviewing, and how to find publishing opportunities.  NurseAuthorEditor is publishing by Wiley-Blackwell and is edited by by Charon Pierson, who also edits Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. There [...]

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