Organization

1. Backpack allows anyone to share information with others. Keep your documents, discussions and schedules all in one place in a Web-based, secure environment that is backed up daily.
2. Dropbox is software that syncs your files online and across computers. While you and other users need to install the software to share files, it is free up to 2 GB and a reliable file-sharing application.
3. Evernote is a popular place to save your ideas, images and other information. Use any computer to gain access to this Web-based application, including a mobile device.
4. Notely: Use this Web application to schedule your appointments and classes, to take notes and to plan your homework so you can meet deadlines. This app was designed by a student for other students.
5. picwing is an easy way to upload photos and send print versions to your family. While this app is not free, it’s an easy way to stay in touch with the folks who send cash to help you stay alive in college. Upload images from your mobile, Picasso and other sources and you even can send the photo with a personal message printed on the back.
6. Remember the Milk is a tool that you may already use, as it is a great way to manage and share tasks on the Web and through email, SMS or IM. This app is available for a number of other tools such as Gears, Twitter and Blackberry.
7. Soshiku is a tool that can help you manage your college assignments. Keep track when these assignments are due and set the tool up for email or SMS notifications — all for free.
8. Zamzar offers a free online file conversion tool. Transform your songs, videos, images and documents into different formats to use in class or to share with classmates and friends. Use the Zamzar Web Browser Button to find new files to convert.

Creativity

9. bubbl.us is a free and simple Web application that allows users to brainstorm online. Create mind maps, share and work with friends, embed your mind map in your blog or Web site and more.
10. Mindpicnic is a creative site that allows users to find courses and lessons, create lessons, plan and collaborate with other students and form community. Chose a course, learn online and repeat, all for free.
11. NoteMesh is a free service that allows college students in the same classes to share notes with each other. It works like a wiki, in that users can edit and collaborate. Now, international and non .edu users can register to use the site as well.
12. Wridea is a Web service where you can organize and improve your ideas by sharing them with friends. They also provide the tools to improve your ideas by yourself.

Writing Aids

13. Bibme is a fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills your citations. It supports MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian formatting, and leverages databases provided by Amazon, FindArticles, Yahoo! News, and CiteULike to quickly and accurately AutoFill citation information for you.
14. Cornell Method PDF Generator is a “quick and dirty” little form that helps students create custom notetaking sheets for any or all classes. Choose among blank, ruled or graph styles.
15. EasyBib is an automatic bibliography and citation maker that offers users a search tool and more to cite papers. You can download MLA, APA and Chicago PDF reference guides and autocite books and Web sites. Free trial.
16. Flowchart is an online multi-user, real-time collaboration flowchart software that allows you to collaborate with your colleagues in real-time. This tool works with Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, Konqueror, Google Chrome.
17. Google Docs is a way to write, organize, plan and prepare all your papers online from any computer. You also can chat while sharing documents and edit in real time with collaborators.
18. OttoBib is a Web-based bibliography tool that is free and easy to use. Go for MLA, APA, Chicago or Turabian, BibTex and Wikipedia.It is important to note that OttoBib is not 100 percent precise in its formatting, but you might check any citation tool after you use it to assure yourself that your citations are in top shape.
19. Writeboard is a sharable Web-based text document storehouse that allows users to save every edit, roll back to any version and easily compare changes. Use this tool to write solo or to collaborate with other students.
20. Zoho Suite: This site offers all the tools you may need to write, plan, or prepare presentations, and it’s all offered through Web-based operations that you can access from any computer.

Study Aids

21. Awesome Highlighter lets you highlight text on Web pages and then gives you a small link to the highlighted page. This app also comes as a FireFox add-on and bookmarklet.
22. Calcoolate is one of the coolest free calculators online, offering users a way to check calculations by expression. The history of your calculations is stored on your computer using a cookie. No history is sent to this tool’s servers.
23. FlashcardExchange is a Web-based flashcard program that allows users to create, print and share flashcards on any subject imaginable. It also comes as an iPhone app.
24. Metacalc is a Web-based and client-based tool that does not transmit any data regarding your input, calculations, or personal identity back to the server. Includes all options you might find on an expensive computer for free.
25. Sparknotes has guides that are invaluable for summaries and insight, and they offer topics that range from English lit to history, math and biology. Their college bloggers have the inside scoop, too, on how to get into college and how to pay for it once you’re there.

Medical Reference Sites

If you want to brush up on diagnoses, symptoms and learn the latest medical headlines, you can visit medical reference sites for a little help on remembering what you’ve learned, or learning new things.

1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Learn the latest information about different procedures, healthy living and more.
2. Medline Plus: The National Institutes of Health offers a great reference that any healthcare professional can make use of.
3. eMedicine: This is a clinical reference, continually updated, provided by Medscape.
4. WebMD: Get a consumer perspective on medicine, and get synopses of the latest advancements in the world of healthcare.
5. Mayo Clinic: Medical reference and news to help you learn more about health and treating patients.
6. Medicine Online: Searchable answers to health questions, and information on drugs, health, surgery and more.
7. Medical References: Find information and learn new things with help from the University of Maryland Medical Center.
8. RXList: This is a helpful drug reference guide. Learn about drug interactions and more.

Journals and Scholarly Publications

One of the best ways to learn is to keep up with the latest studies and findings from peer-reviewed journals and scholarly publications on health and medicine. Here are online sources of healthcare information.

9. Directory of Open Access Journals: Get access to open journals from around the world that can provide you insight into latest information.
10. PubMed: Find the latest articles in prestigious publications related to healthcare and medicine.
11. Free Medical Journals: Get access to scholarly articles on medicine and health from a variety of sources.
12. HighWire Free Online Full-text Articles: Use these free articles on healthcare and medicine to expand your knowledge base.
13. Carpenter Center Library: This library on the campus of Wake Forest University offers access to a number of journals and e-journals on health and medicine.
14. The Lancet: Get new information from one of the foremost medical journals in the world.
15. JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association: Offers paid and free articles on the latest developments in medicine and healthcare.
16. American Journal of Health Education: Access the latest news in health education and learn something new.

Case Studies

One of the best ways to learn is to read case studies. If you want access to some great case studies, here are some places to start:

17. Medical Simulations: This eminently useful site takes you through different scenarios that can help you learn about different cases online.
18. Online Case Studies: Learn more about pathology with these case studies from the University of Pittsburgh.
19. Case Studies in Science: Study these real-life situations in different aspects of medicine.
20. Pulmonary Case Studies: Loyola University offers interesting studies in the pulmonary system.
21. Clinical Case Studies: These situations come from the University of Michigan and cover different areas relating to gross anatomy.
22. Journal of Medical Case Reports: Learn about the latest case studies and reports.
23. Clinical Case Studies: Another journal that offers a look at the latest case study and treatment reports.

Treatment Plans

It is important for healthcare professionals to understand how to put together a treatment plan. Here are some e-learning resources to help you with care plans.

24. eHow: Follow this step by step plan to help you put together a proper care plan.
25. Nursing Crib: Learn about the elements of a care plan, and learn how to formulate a quality treatment plan.
26. Virtual Nurse: Get a look at what goes into a good treatment plan.
27. RN Central: A list of care plans that can be used by a number of healthcare prfessionals — not just nurses.
28. Wikipedia: Breaks down treatment plans in a way that is easy to understand.
29. Careplans.com: See sample nursing plans, learn how to create one, and get an idea of what they can be used for.
30. VCU Libraries: Look through treatment plans, learn about health assessment and more.
31. Comprehensive Nursing Care Plans: You don’t have to be a nurse to appreciate the sample treatment plans and documents that can help you enhance your patient care.

Medical Open Courseware Collections

Open courseware is a great way to engage in e-learning. If you are a healthcare professional, here are some open courseware collections on medicine and health, many of them offering free access.

32. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Interesting courses on a number of medical situations and health concepts — for free.
33. Harvard Medical School Open Courseware Initiative: Get access to medical lectures and more from Harvard.
34. Health Sciences and Technology: MIT offers access to free classes on medical and health sciences.
35. Tufts School of Medicine: Get open medical courseware classes from Tufts University.
36. Health & Medicine Events: Watch web casts and lectures from UC Berkeley about health and medicine.
37. Notre Dame: Get access to different courses related to medicine and public health from Notre Dame.
38. Open Learning Initiative: Carnegie Mellon offers a number of courses related to science and medicine (including biology).
39. University of Tokyo: Take English language open courseware classes on different subjects related to medicine.
40. The Open University: Learn about health and medicine with the help of The Open University.
41. Open Yale Courses: Take courses on chemistry, biomedical engineering and biology to help you learn more about health and medicine from Yale.
42. University of Utah: Access open courseware classes about pharmacotherapy, psychology, biology and chemistry.
43. Connexions: Learn more about health and illness with these courses from Connexions, with is associated with Rice University.

Online Education Communities

If you are interested in participating more in e-learning, you can join these communities for more information about online learning, and effective techniques.

44. Online Education Database: OEDb is one of the best resources for online learning.
45. Learning Resources Network: Learn more about e-learning, and even about teaching e-courses.
46. The eLearning Network: Chat with others about online learning, and get tips for e-learning.
47. WorldWideLearn: Get access to resources about e-learning, including online degree opportunities.
48. Study Guides and Strategies: Learn about being a more effective learner in a variety of circumstances.
49. HowStuffWorks: Get a basic primer in how to increase your effectiveness at e-learning.
50. The Babb Group: Get more information on e-learning, as well as online teaching.

General CME Blogs

1. Anne T.- V.’s Blog: Current awareness about news articles and Web resources for CE providers and medical/health educators, including chiropractors.
2. Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education: This Center is responsible for one of the largest and most diverse CME programs anywhere, and they share knowledge on their site.
3. CME Buzz: Community and blogs abound in this CME-focused site. Join to learn more about continuing medical education opportunities.
4. CME Linkages: Debra L. Gist, MPH, FACME, shares links regularly that point to continuing medical education information.
5. CME List: This blog reflects the comprehensive reviews and lists maintained by Dr. Bernard Sklar.
6. Conversations In CME with Floyd Pennington: Musings on the field by Floyd Pennington, PhD, President of CTL Associates, Inc., a Continuing Medical Education Services Company.
7. DLC Solutions Blog: This company offers software platforms for the health community and provides a blog that focuses on medical learning systems.
8. Johns Hopkins CME Blog: This blog provides up-to-date clinical and research information in educational formats.
9. MedBuzz: This is a fast-growing blog, community and information service for anyone in the medical industry. Includes links to CME On Demand.
10. Medical Meetings: Use this site to learn more about news, opportunities and careers in the medical field.
11. Medical Student Blog: This blog belongs to a medical student who also is a tech entrepreneur.
12. TRIP Database Blog: The TRIP Database is a clinical search engine designed to allow clinicians to quickly find answers to questions using the best available evidence.
13. World Hospital Directory: This directory is useful for job searches, but the blog also is a necessary bookmark for anyone seeking news and information about CME.

Emergency Medicine and Critical Care

14. Academic Life in Emergency Medicine: This blog aims to give you a “behind the scenes” peak into the academic world of emergency medicine.
15. Acute Care, Inc. Blog: This blog is designed to serve as a dynamic record of issues, developments and practical strategies associated with “EM in the Heartland.”
16. EM-Blog: This blog is presented by The Center for Medical Education, Inc., one of the largest emergency medicine CME resources in the country.
17. EMedHome: This site’s mission is to provide a user-friendly clinical resource that is designed to be the premier educational website for emergency physicians.
18. Emergency Medicine Blog: This is a hands-on compilation of resources provided by Chew Keng Sheng in Malaysia, where emergency medicine is a relatively new field.
19. Emergency Physicians Monthly: This blog reflects the content in the “Independent Voice for Emergency Physicians.”
20. Sinai EM: This blog brings technology to the bedside for improved patient care, including Mount Sinai’s ‘Emergency and Critical Care Ultrasound CME.’

Other Topics

21. ACP Internist: This blog provides news and information for internists about the practice of medicine and reports on the policies, products and activities of the American College of Physicians.
22. Allergy Notes: Allergy, asthma and immunology news updated daily by a former Cleveland Clinic assistant professor. Dr. Dimov also maintains Allergy Cases.
23. BioJobBlog: Dr. Mintz is founder of BioInsights, a biopharmaceutical education and training organization, among other things “bio.”
24. Cliniversity: This blog covers the gamut in clinical research learning.
25. Dr. Shock: This is the personal blog of a Dutch psychiatrist working in a University hospital.
26. Global Health Blog: Learn more about how urbanization is affecting global health and development.
27. JACI Journal Club: The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology provides a monthly discussion focused on specific articles.
28. JACI News Beyond Our Pages: This blog brings breaking news and latest research to the allergy and immunology community.
29. Personalized Medicine and The Future of Pharmacy Practice: This blog belongs to the University of British Columbia and is part of an ongoing pharmacy course.
30. Pharmacology Corner: This blog offers continuing medical education on clinical pharmacology.
31. PharmaLive: Considered the “pulse of the pharmaceutical industry,” this blog provides pharmaceutical news. Click on the tab for ‘blogs’ to read more.
32. Policy and Medicine: A former political consultant shares his knowledge about U.S. policies and medicine.
33. Science Life: The University of Chicago Medical Center offers a blog filled with news and ideas in biomedicine.
34. Science-Based Medicine: Learn by exploring issues and controversies in the relationship between science and medicine.
35. The Mole: This blog offers an insider’s perspective on the news and practice trends in dermatology from the staff of Skin & Allergy News.

Resources

36. Adoption Doctors Medical Education Blog: Families and medical professionals can learn much from Dr. Rogu, the Medical Director of AdoptionDoctors.com.
37. Biological Informatics: This blog was developed and created by Internet expert, author, keynote speaker and consultant Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.
38. Denialism Blog: Join three bloggers as they discuss “denialism” in topics that range from medicine to medical education and from law to science.
39. Dr. Chucks Blog: Dr. Chuck is teaching, learning, into technology, standards and interoperability among other things.
40. Health Informatics Forum: Network, read blogs, catch up on the news about health informatics at this site.
41. Healthcare Informatics: policy, technology, and money: Healthcare informatics includes information technology, but deals with people, law, power, and money as much as with hardware and software.
42. Informaticopia: Eclectic news and views on health informatics and elearning, by Rod Ward & colleagues i the UK.
43. Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog: This blog is linked to and is an extension of The NYU School of Medicine medical humanities web site and the Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database.
44. MGMA In Practice Blog: A healthy dose of the best ideas in medical practice management from the Medical Group Management Association.
45. NEGEA Libraries in Medical Education: The American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) encourages regional collaboration and opportunities for AAMC members.
46. Pallimed: This is a hospice and palliative medicine blog directed to medical professionals.
47. Prime: This leader in educational program design, accreditation, execution and evaluation offers case studies, videos and news that can help any medical professional.
48. Ted Eytan, MD: Learn more about e-Health, patient empowerment and patient-centered health information technology at this blog.
49. Wishful Thinking in Medical Education: This GP and clinical lecturer in Cardiff University, Wales, UK, is interested in the use of new technologies to further medical education.
50. YJHM Blog: This is the companion blog to the Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine.

1. Strict enforcement of School & Day Care Sick Kid Policy: There should be strict enforcement of school or daycare sick policy. A kid suffering from the disease should make an entry into school only after 24 hours after consuming fever reducing medicine. Even home based day cares to may loose rules with sick children. Therefore, parents should ensure that baby sitter or home based care provider is consistent in providing and forcing sick kid policy.
2. Teaching kid to avoid spreading Swine Flu Virus: There is an advisory from The Center for Diseases Control (CDC) that a kid should be vaccinated against swine flu as soon as vaccine is available to them. More kid should be inspired to have good hand hygiene. Teach kid to use a tissue to cough or sneeze into.
3. Scrub Surfaces: Employ Lysol® or Clorox® disinfecting wipes on frequently used surfaces to kill disease causing germs. Always travel with a hand sanitizer to disinfect in places where hand washing is not possible.
4. Washing Toys frequently: Wash toys frequently in a warm soap solution as it can be done by soaking toys for several minutes in a large tub and then scrubbing them with a dish scrubber. And only after washing and drying toys should be given to a kid.
5. Have Nutritious Food: Other way to fight with seasonal flu is having balanced and nutritious food. Fresh seasonal vegetables and fruits happen to be rich in vitamins and minerals and that can improve bodies’ immune system.
6. Inspiring Kids to have nutritious food: Parents can inspire their kids to by going creative to eat nutritious food by cutting vegetables into shapes liked by children. More, they can blend vegetables into the favorite recipes and dishes liked by kids.
7. By Decreasing Stress: As stress decreases immunity too, therefore for the good sake of family and its health, parent should manage stress in such a manner so they may not comprise with the health of the family as to decrease their immunity.

1. Educational Games: These tool as in form of games are very helpful nurse as they teach there young patients about working of immunes system and functionality of IVIG as to helping them to remain healthy and stayed. Of the many games GGL Slip is a game about destroying bacteria. In game, here, one can also judge skill as a pilot and gunner in the game. Other, important game is Macrophage that is a method for destroying and finding bacteria.
2. Nursing Consultant: This is a very helpful tool for nurses prevent 10 “Never Events” with the help of this tool as identified by the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services (CMS). Apart from the tool at the site nurses would have other nursing related utilities like 38 leading full text nursing journals, drug information and calculators, 370 practice guidelines and Nursing and Medical News.
3. Nursing Central: It is a nursing mobile solution where ample information is available on diseases, tests and procedures. It has database of nearly 4,600 drugs and 56,000 dictionary terms. Apart from remaining in touch with in medical news it also integrates Taber’s Medical Dictionary, Davis Drug Guide, Diseases and Disorders, Laboratory and Diagnostic tests and unbound medline.
4. Daycare Nurse: This is a caring genre game and is in a simulation practice. In the game, a player has to help a nurse in taking care of nurses as effectively as possible. The game is played with the help of a mouse.
5. Bishop’s Score Calculator: This application compatible with iPhone and iPod touch is an Obstetric calculator to measure Bishop’s Score. Result of this score is used for assess probability of impending delivery as well as expected success rate if labor is induced. The calculations also take into care prior deliveries and pregnancy complications.
6. Epocrates Rx: It is one of the free iPhone apps, Epocrates Rx, which includes a drug guide, formulary information and drug interaction checker. This particular product also involves constant and regular free updates and medical news. And this application further more remains static on the device so information can be checked out without wireless connection.
7. Eponyms for the iPhone: This application brings out the downloadable iTunes store from the eponym database from Andrew J. Yee for your iPhone or iPod touch.

There are different kinds of nursing career paths. From a surgical nurse to a midwife or maternity ward nurse, and therefore each branch has its own specification on what courses to do. Online Nursing Education has certifications that include Licensed Practicing Nurse, Registered Nurse, Diplomas, Bachelors, Masters and Graduate degrees in this profession. It is important to pick the nursing path that is right for you and if possible, unique. This is because in the world over, there is a high demand for qualified nurses and some are even expatriates outside their home countries.

Taking an online nursing education course in any field requires discipline as it is not a regular college or university where you are monitored if you attended class or relevant training sessions. In addition, with online nursing courses, you have the chance to train and practice at a local affiliated health center. From time to time, you may be required to attend residency for a given time at the physical campus but other than that, you will handle and complete your course in your own good time. With online classes, you may actually get more attention from the lecturer or dean because emails are that much easier received and replied as compared to lining up at the dean’s office and your query, or issue will be handled much slower.

Examples of universities that offer online nursing programs include Kaplan University. Founded in 1937, this means that it is a trusted name in education and will provide the courses that you wish to take. Another institution is the Chamberlain College of Nursing with campuses all across America. With over 120 years of nursing under their belt, they offer all courses from registered nurse to Masters in Nursing. This means that you can take on all the necessary procedures to make you a qualified and indispensable nurse.