Nursing

This step by step guide shows you how to search MeSH in MEDLINE.

A series of videos and quizzes aimed at nurses that will help you get familiar with PubMed.

A step-by-step introduction to EBP from the University of Minnesota Health Sciences Libraries. Includes the five steps of EBP, how for formulate questions using PICO, how to describe evidence-based resources, and more.

The Khan Academy Medicine YouTube channel presents 11 short videos all about heart failure, the symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, etc.

The medical world can be a confusing place. Patients and their families might feel overwhelmed by the large vocabularies and complicated explanations they get from their health care providers. Students entering health care also struggle to grasp the complexity of health sciences, and are forced to memorize huge amounts of information. We hope to make understanding the medical world a bit easier.

Most of NCSBN's educational video production are designed to provide clarity to nurses, nursing students and others about some of the most challenging issues boards of nursing (BONs) face in their mission to protect the public. NCSBN is currently in production on several other videos, so check back here for new releases.

The Khan Academy Medicine channel on Youtube, talks about the different types of diabetes.

NCSBN is dedicated to developing psycho-metrically sound and legally defensible nurse license and certification examinations consistent with current practice. These exams include the NCLEX-RN and NCLEX-PN Examinations, National Nurse Aid Assessment Program (NNAAP) and the Medication Aide Certification Examination (MACE).

This content has been developed to support nursing students preparing for the National Council Licensing Examination for Registered Nursers (NCLEX-RN). All of this content has been created under the direction of Khan Academy and has been reviewed under the direction of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). This content is intended to be a supplemental resource for nursing graduates, not a program of study for the NCLEX-RN exam. These videos, questions, and articles are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical- ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. (available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/).