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Illinois Department of Professional Regulation
James R. Thompson Center
100 West Randolph, Suite 9-300
Chicago, IL 60601
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Phone: (312) 814-2715
Fax: (312) 814-3145
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Springfield Office:
320 W. Washington Street
Springfield, Illinois 62786
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Phone: (217) 785-0800
Fax: (217) 782-7645
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Illinois Nursing License Forms Web Site: http://www.idfpr.com/dpr/WHO/nurs.asp
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Illinois Certified Nursing Aid Registry
http://app.idph.state.il.us/nar/index.htm
Illinois Registered Nurse License Renewal Web Site: https://www.idfpr.com/dpr/RENEWAL/nurs.asp
Spinal Cord Injury Association of Illinois
Below is a list of all the Hospitals in Illinois.
Advocate Health Care - Chicago, Illinois
Alexian Brothers Medical Center - Elk Grove Village, Illinois
American International Hospital - Zion, Illinois
Bethany Hospital - Chicago, Illinois
Blessing Hosptial - Quincy, Illinois
BroMenn Regional Medical Center - Normal, Illinois
Carle Foundation Hospital - Carle Clinic Assoc. - Urbana, Illinois
Catholic Health Partners (St. Joseph Hospital, Saint Anthony Hospital, Columbus Hospital) - Chicago, Illinois
Central Dupage Health - Winfield, Illinois
Chicago Lakeshore Hospital - Chicago, Illinois
CGH Medical Center - Sterling, Illinois
Children's Memorial Hospital - Chicago, Illinois
Christ Hospital and Medical Center - Oak Lawn, Illinois
Community Healthcare System - Munster, Indiana
Condell Health Network - Libertyville, Illinois
Crawford Memorial Hospital & Health Services - Robinson, Illinois
Community Hospital of Ottawa - Ottawa, Illinois
Community Methodist Hospital - Rushville, Illinois
Cook County Hospital - Chicago, Illinois
Decatur Memorial Hospital - Decatur, Illinois
Edward Hospital (Edward Health Services Corporation) - Naperville, Illinois
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare - Evanston, Illinois
Freeport Health - Freeport, Illinois
Good Samaritan Hospital - Downers Grove, Illinois
Good Shepherd Hospital - Barrington, Illinois
Gottlieb Memorial Hospital - Melrose Park, Illinois
Graham Hospital - Canton, Illinois
South Suburban Hospital - Hazel Crest, Illinois
Highland Park Hospital - Highland Park, Illinois
Holy Cross - Chicago, Illinois
Illinois Masonic Medical Center - Chicago, Illinois
Illinois Valley Community Hospital - Peru, Illinois
Ingalls Health System - Cook County, Illinois
Jehangir Hospital - Pune, Maharashtra, India
Kishwaukee Community Hospital - DeKalb, Illinois
KSB Hospital - Dixon,Illinois
Little Company of Mary Hospital - Chicago, Illinois
Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital - Chicago, Illinois
Loyola University Medical Center - Maywood, Illinois
Lutheran General Hospital - Park Ridge , Illinois
MacNeal Hospital - Berwyn, Illinois
Marion Memorial Hospital - Marion, Illinois
Mc Donough District Hospital - Macomb, Illinois
Memorial Medical Center - Springfield, Illinois
Memorial Medical Center - Woodstock, Illinois
Mental Health - Chicago, Illinois
Mercy Hospital and Medical Center - Chicago, Illinois
Methodist Medical Center - Peoria, Illinois
Mount Sinai Medical Center - Chicago, Illinois
Northwest Community Healthcare (Northwest Community Hospital) - Arlington Heights, Illinois
Northwestern Memorial Hospital - Chicago, Illinois
OSF Saint Francis Medical Center - Peoria, Illinois
OSF Saint James-John W. Albrecht Medical Center - Pontiac, Illinois
Passavant Hospital - Jacksonville, Illinois
Pekin Memorial Hospital - Pekin, Illinois
Proctor Hospital - Peoria, Illinois
Provena Mercy Center - Aurora, Illinois
Provena United Samaritans Medical Center - Danville, Illinois
Provena St. Joesph Medical Center - Joliet, Illinois
Provena Saint Therese Medical Center - Waukegan, Illinois
Providence (Cook County) - Chicago, Illinois
Ravenswood Hospital Medical Center - Chicago, Illinois
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago - Chicago, Illinois
Resurrection Health Care - Chicago, Illinois (St. Francis Hospital, Resurrection Medical Center, Our Lady of the Resurrection Medical Center, Westlake Hospital)
Richland Memorial Hospital - Olney, Illinois
Riverside HealthCare - Kankakee, Illinois
Rockford Health System - Rockford, Illinois
Roseland Community Hospital - Chicago, Illinois
Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center - Chicago, Illinois
Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center - Mattoon, Illinois
Saint Anthony's Health Center - Alton, Illinois
Saint Francis Hospital of Evanston - Evanston, Illinois
St. Alexis Medical Center - Chicago, Illinois
St. Elizabeth's Hospital - Belleville, Illinois
St. Francis Hospital - Litchfield, Illinois
St. James Hospital - Chicago Heights & Olympia Fields, Illinois
St. John - Springfield, Illinois
St. John's Hospital - Springfield, Illinois
St. Joseph's Hospital of Highland - Highland, Illinois
St. Margaret's Hospital - Spring Valley, Illinois
St Mary's Hospital - Streator, Illinois
St. Mary's Hospital - Decatur, Illinois
Sherman Health Systems - Elgin, Illinois
Silver Cross Hospital and Medical Centers - Joliet, Illinois
Southern Illinois Healthcare - Illinois
Storger Hospital - Chicago, Illinois
Swedish American Health System - Rockford, Illinois
Swedish Covenant Hospital - Chicago, Illinois
Thorek Hospital and Medical Center - Chicago, Illinois
Trinity Hospital - Chicago, Illinois
Trinity Medical Center (* Trinity Regional Health System) - Illinois/Iowa
University of Chicago - Chicago, Illinois
University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago - Chicago, Illinois
West Suburban Hospital - Oak Park, Illinois
Victory Memorial Hospital - Waukegan, Illinois
Education
Masters in Nursing
Guide to Accredited Colleges offering a Masters Degree in Nursing
Allied Health Institute
http://www.vantageproed.com
Acute Care Education
http://www.ace.cc
Virtual Nursing College
http://www.langara.bc.ca/vnc
Continuing Education
American Nurses Credentialing Center
http://www.nursingworld.org/ancc
Nursing Spectrum
http://www.nursingspectrum.com
RN On-line
http://www.learnwell.org
Pharmacology
http://www.PDR.net/nurse
http://www.pharma-lexicon.com
http://www.NDHnow.com
http://www.micromedex.com
Nursing Books
Amazon
http://www.amazon.com
Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins Publishers
http://www.lww.com/nursing
McGraw Hill Professional Publishing
http://www.pbg.mcgraw-hill.com
Elsevier Science (formerly known as W.B. Saunders, Mosby,
& Harcourt)
http://www.elsevierhealth.com
Searchable Library Databases
National Library of medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov
On-line Medical Library
http://www.emedicine.com
CINAHL
http://www.cinahl.com
Nursing Practice
Informative Nursing Sites
http://www.nursingworld.org
http://www.nursingcenter.com
Medical Algorithms
http://www.medal.org
Healthcare Organizations
American Cancer Society
http://www.cancer.org
American Diabetes Association
http://www.diabetes.org
American Heart Association
http://www.americanheart.org
Centers for Disease Control
http://www.cdc.gov
Emergency Cardiovascular Care
http://www.cpr-ecc.org
FDA Information for Consumers
http://www.fda.gov/opacom/morecons.html
Infectious Diseases Society of America
http://www.idsociety.org
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
http://www.jcaho.org
National Cancer Institute
http://www.nci.nih.gov
National Coalition against Domestic Violence
http://www.ncadv.org
National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
http://www.nfid.org
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organizations
http://www.nhpaco.org
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease
http://www.niddk.nih.gov
Occupational Safety & Health Administration, U.S. Department of
Labor
http://www.osha.gov
The Phenomenal Women of the Web
http://phenomenalwomen.com
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.hhs.gov
Nursing Organization links
Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses
http://www.medsurgnurse.org
Air & Surface Transport Nurses Association
http://www.astna.org
American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing
http://www.aaacn.org
American Assembly for Men in Nursing
http://www.aamn.org
American Association of Diabetes Educators
http://www.aadenet.org
American Association of Managed Care Nurses, Inc.
http://www.aamcn.org
American Association of Nurse Anesthetists
http://www.aana.com
American Academy of Nursing
http://www.nursingworld.org/aan
American College of Nurse Practitioners
http://www.acnpweb.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
http://www.aanp.org
American Association of Occupational Health Nurses
http://www.aaohn.org
American Association of Office Nurses
http://www.aaon.org
American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Nurses
http://www.aascin.org
American Association of Neuroscience Nursing
http://www.aann.org
American Association of PeriAnesthesia Nursing
http://www.aspan.org
American Holistic Nurses Association
http://www.ahna.org
American Association of Critical Care Nursing
http://www.aacn.org
American Association of Colleges of Nursing
http://www.aacn.nche.edu
American Long Term & SubAcute Nurses Association
http://www.alsna.com
American Nephrology Nurses’ Association
http://www.annanurse.org
American Nurses Association
http://www.ana.org
American Nursing Informatics
http://www.ania.org
American Organization of Nurse Executives
http://www.aone.org
American Psychiatric Nurses Association
http://www.apna.org
American Radiological Nurses Association
http://www.arna.net
American Society of Pain Management Nurses
http://www.aspmn.org
American Society of Plastic Surgical Nurses
http://www.asprsn.org
Association of Nurses in AIDS Care
http://www.anacnet.org
Association of Operating Room Nurses
http://www.aorn.org
Association of Pediatric Oncology Nurses
http://www.apon.org
Association of PeriOperative Registered Nurses
http://www.aorn.org
Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology,
Inc.
http://www.apic.org
Association of Rehabilitation Nurses
http://www.rehabnurse.org
Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses
http://www.awhonn.org
Case Management Society of America
http://www.cmsa.org
Endocrine Nurses Society
http://www.endo-nurses.org
Emergency Nurses Association
http://www.ena.org
Home Healthcare Nurses Association
http://www.nahc.org/hhna
Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association
http://www.hpna.org
International Nurses Society on Addictions
http://www.nnsa.org
International Transplant Nurses Society
http://www.itns.org
Intravenous Nurses Society
http://www.ins1.org
League of Intravenous Therapy Education
http://www.lite.org
National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists
http://www.nacns.org
National Association of Hispanic Nurses
http://www.nahnhq.org
National Association of Neonatal Nurses
http://www.nann.org
National Association of Nurse Massage Therapists
http://members.aol.com/nanmt1
National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses
http://www.orthonurse.org
National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners,
Inc
http://www.napnap.org
National Association of School Nurses
http://www.nasn.org
National Black Nurses Association, Inc.
http://www.nbna.org
National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc.
http://www.ncsbn.org
National Federation for Specialty Nursing Organizations
http://www.nfsno.org
National Federation of Licensed Practical Nurses, Inc.
http://www.nflpn.org
National Gerontological Nursing Association
http://www.ngna.org
National League for Nursing
http://www.nln.org
National Nurses in Business
http://www.nnba.net
National Nursing Staff Development Organization
http://www.nnsdo.org
National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing
http://www.noadn.org
National Student Nurses’ Association
http://www.nsna.org
Nurses Christian Fellowship
http://www.ncf-jcn.org
Oncology Nursing Society
http://www.ons.org
Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
http://www.nursingsociety.org
Society for Vascular Nursing
http://www.svnnet.org
Society of Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates, Inc.
http://www.sgna.org
Society of Urologic Nurses and Associates
http://www.suna.org
Transcultural Nursing Society
http://www.tcns.org
Wound Ostomy Continence Nurses Society
http://www.wocn.org
Medical Association links
American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
http://www.surgery.org
American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons
http://www.plasticsurgery.org
Nursing Journal links
American Journal of Nursing
http://www.ajnonline.com
American Journal of Epidemiology
http://www.aje.oupjournals.org
American Journal of Infection Control
http://www.apic.org/ajic
Advance for Nurses
http://www.advancefornurses.com
Nursing
http://www.springnet.com
Nursing Management
http://www.nursingmanagement.com
Advances in Neonatal Care
http://www.advancesinneonatalcare.org
Journal of Christian Fellowship
http://www.ncf-jcn.org
Journal of perianesthesia Nursing
http://www.jopan.org
Journal of Professional Nursing
http://www.professionalnursing.org
Newborn and Infant Nursing Reviews
http://www.nainr.com
Pain Management Nursing
http://www.painmanagementnursing.org
To Look for many other nursing journals
http://www.mosby.com
Nursing Malpractice Insurance links
http://www.nso.com
http://www.cmfgroup.com
http://www.nursesource.org
Help for Nurses
National Fund for Nurses in Need
http://www.NursesHouse.org
Nurse Comedy links
http://www.nurstoon.com
Pediatric Specific Sites
http://pedsccm.wustl.edu/Internet_nf.html
eMedicine Pediatrics, a free online textbook of pediatrics. An extensive growing table of contents and a variety of online calculators. From eMedicine.com
Anesthesia and Critical Care articles, a section of PediatricLinx, a MDLinx news site.
GeneralPediatrics.com; a succinct index site for pediatric health care.
wwwSLACK: Pediatric Internet Directory
PediatricRadiology.com; a comprehensive source of pediatric imaging resources
Neonatology on the Web (extensive teaching file links and literature citations!)
International Pediatric Chat: the web site describing live "chat" for pediatricians on the Internet. Wednesdays at 13:30 (EST) has been set aside for pediatric intensivists.
Pediatric Anesthesia (Hospital for Sick Children)
PEDINFO: An Index of the Pediatric Internet
Harriet Lane Links; an extensive list from Johns Hopkins
Society for Pediatric Anesthesia
American Academy of Pediatrics, includes
American Board of Pediatrics
Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Pediatric Surgery Update
Extracorporeal Life Support Organization
Emory's MedWeb Pediatrics
ISABEL; a online pediatric differential diagnosis tool, with APLS protocols and other guidelines, from the ISABEL Medical Charity, UK. (available with free registration by health care professionals only)
General Medical Sites
Community of Science; "a collaborative network of scientists and their institutions" - see membership information for individuals or institutions
US Government Sponsored Sites
Dermatlas; extensive, searchable collection of dermatology and histology images, from Johns Hopkins.
Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines on the web. Compiled by Peter Sam. UCSF
Medical Computing Today; articles and links on clinical systems, education, the Internet, more
Diseases, Disorders, and Related Topics; extensive lists of links on topics from Bacteria to Therapeutics, from Karolinska Institute Library
Neurosciences on the Internet
Frontiers in Bioscience: a journal, a library, and more
Physician's Choice, with ratings and descriptions
Virtual Hospital
Healthlinks.net: a directory of selected health-related sites ($)
Yahoo Medicine
MedConnect (CME and cases)
Now with the Internet Journal of Pediatrics (free registration required)
Medical Matrix: Internet Health Resources (excellent!) (free registration required)
American Medical Informatics Association
Managed Care Forum
Medscape (free but registration required)
Reuter's Heath Information Service
Doctor to Doctor: International opportunities in medical education
On-Line Doctor Finder, from the American Medical Association
CiteHealth
Provides reports for people researching their health care providers quality and communities at no cost.
Critical Care/Emergency Medicine/Anesthesia Sites
PRETx: Pediatric Research in Emergency Therapeutics. A database of drugs in emergency medicine and critical illness in children with links to original research and succinct reviews.
Emergency Medical Services for Children, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
www.ucip.net; Spanish resources in Pediatric Intensive Care
Critical Care Network; website and mail list, in Japanese
IntensiveCare.com; a website under development supporting effective clinical practice in the ICU. Includes an Online Tutorial of Clinical Epidemiology for Effective Clinical Practice
American Thoracic Society
European Intensive Care Society
American College of Chest Physicians
Anestcadiz: The European (Spain) Website of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine
Emergency Medicine; an evolving online textbook of emergency medicine. From Emedicine, Boston Publishing Co.
The Completely Different Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal. Literature commentaries, case reports. Fisher J.
Emergency Medicine BBS: toxicology cases, code simulator, and more
ToxFAQ's: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Trauma Moulages at Trauma.org: practice interactive trauma resuscitations
Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine on the Internet
Anesthesia/Critical Care Resources on the Internet (ACCRI)
Society of Critical Care Medicine
GASNet with
The Virtual Anaesthesia Textbook
Pediatric Nursing and Critical Care Nursing Sites
Society of Critical Care Medicine's Nursing Section
American Association of Critical Care Nurses
Critical Care Web
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
American Nurses Association
Emergency Nurses Association
National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates and Practitioners
NP central: information for and about nurse practitioners
Society of Pediatric Nurses
Association of Pediatric Oncology Nurses
Sigma Theta Tau, International Honor Society of Nursing
American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants
American Association of Nurse Anesthetists
Association of Nurses in AIDS care
Child Health and Advocacy Resources
Emergency Medical Services for Children; a comprehensive resource from this Health Resources and Services Administration supported initiative
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
Kid's Campaign
Doctors Without Borders: 1999 Nobel Peace Prize Winner! (story on CNN)
Children's Defense Fund
Physicians for Social Responsibility
UNICEF
Consortium for Health and Human Rights
Children's Environmental Health Network
Child Welfare League of America
World Health Organization
Child Abuse Referral and Education Network; from The Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Local Resources:
Medical College of Wisconsin
Washington University School of Medicine
Department of Pediatrics
Department of Anesthesiology
Medical Journals on the Web
Electronic Journal Index Sites:
FreeMedicalJournals.com, a compliation of links to freely available, full-text biomedical journals. From AMEDEO.
Directory of Electronic Health Sciences Journals, from Faculty of Medicine, Monash University, Australia
Electronic journal services from the Bernard Becker Medical Library at Washington University School of Medicine; an example of listings of electronic journals and services available to individuals and institutions
Full Text Electronic Journals, a list with links to publishers' sites and "third parties," e.g., Ovid. From Duke University Medical Center Library.
Highwire Press' list of free full-text journals, associated trial periods and when back issues become freely available of the journals they manage.
MD Anderson Cancer Center Research Medical Library; another alphabetical list
MedWeb: Electronic Journals and Newsletters: another extensive listing
PediatricLinx.com - an automated journal browser for pediatric articles
Third party" sites; fee-based or site license access to multiple journals from:
Pediatrics Journals
The Archives of Diseases of Childhood; full-text through July, 1999
Pediatrics Electronic Pages: full-text web publication from the American Academy of Pediatrics - now includes full-text of the print version for AAP members
Also see their Collections page, listing articles by topic
The Journal of Pediatrics (contents with abstracts)
Infectious Diseases in Children
Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
Contemporary Pediatrics; full-text review articles free registration required with PDR.net
Journal Watch Pediatrics
Anesthesia/Critical Care Journals
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine - the first peer-reviewed scientific journal for our specialty is now online with full-text. Dr. Patrick Kochanek is the editor of PCCM and can be contacted at pccm@sccm.org
Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine
Italian Internet Journal of Pediatric and Neonatal Anesthesia
Critical Care, a BioMed Central journal, with full-text freely available online
Critical Care Rounds, from the Canadian Critical Care Society; free full-text, extensive single-topic issues.
Journal of Intensive Care Medicine
Update in Anesthesia
Thorax
Anesthesiology
Anesthesia and Analgesia
Critical Care Medicine
Intensive Care Medicine (table of contents; articles by subscription)
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Anesthesia OnLine
Also consider PubMed's Journal Browser to view the contents (citations with abstracts as available) of the following journals directly:
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Critical Care Medicine
Intensive Care Medicine
AMEDEO: Medical Literature Guide: Critical and Intensive Care; a free service to track new articles in selected journals relevant to critical and intensive care.
General Medical/Surgical Journals
AHRQ Web M & M; peer-reviewed, online medical journal highlighting patient safety lessons drawn from real cases of medical errors
Virtual Mentor, an AMA online ethics journal
JAMIA - Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
The Lancet
Canadian Medical Association Journal (now all full-text!)
Medicine and Global Survival
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery on the Web
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Science
The Scientist
Journal of Clinical Investigation
Postgraduate Medicine; full-text review articles
Neuroscience-Net (an entirely online journal)
Scientific American
Evidence-Based Medicine
ACP Journal Club
Medical Education Online
The New England Journal of Medicine (contents, abstracts, letters)
The New England Journal of Medicine announces their new website, and now allows free access to articles after 6 months of original publication, consistent with the call from The Public Library of Science initiative.
The Medical Journal of Australia is conducting an online peer review experiment
British Medical Journal (now with complete full-text access)
Including the comprehensive Guide to the Internet for Medical Practitioners
And full-text Collected Resources, such as in Adult and Pediatric Critical Care
AnesthesiaWeb; news, literature and guideline reviews, and "ask the experts" (free registration required)
MMWR
Nature and Nature Medicine
JAMA
Health Services Research
Annals of Internal Medicine
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Medical Computing Today
Annual Reviews of Biomedical Sciences
Journal of Post-Graduate Medicine; free full-text
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