School Nursing Web Sites

AAP, School Health Resources for Pediatricians: http://www.schoolhealth.org/
Produced by the American Academy of Pediatrics, it includes links to a variety of resources for health practioners working with or in schools.
Advocates for Youth: http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/
Dedicated to creating programs and promoting policies which help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their sexual and reproductive health, it includes links to pertinent web sites and a list of publications, some of them written by teens, for teens.
ASHA: American School Health Association: http://www.ashaweb.org/
Information about the association as well as a list of publications.
Healthy Schools, Healthy Communities: http://www.bphc.hrsa.dhhs.gov/hshc/hshc1.htm
A program of the Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC), it provides a valuable model of how to use schools effectively as primary care access points for at-risk children.
Links to School Nurse Resources: http://members.aol.com/ProRN/indexother.html
Resources for school nurses by school nurses.
MedWebPlus: School Health: http://www.medwebplus.com/subject/School_Health.html
A list of school health resources.
National Assembly on School-Based Health Care: http://www.nasbhc.org/
A nonprofit private association representing school-based health care providers and supporters, it includes an excellent list of links to other health web sites, and a publications list.
National Association of School Nurses, Inc.: http://ace.vrmedia.com/NURSES/
Information about the organization, with a list of publications.
National Association of School Nurses for the Deaf: http://www.nasnd.org/
SchoolNurse.com!: http://schoolnurse.com/
Maintained by the publishers of School Health Alert, a monthly newsletter for school nurse, it includes articles, a bookstore, a forum, and links to websites pertinent to school nurses.
School Nursing Links: http://www.csno.org/links.html
An excellent list of links from the California School Nurses Organization.
School Nursing Resource Sampler: http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/pnr/samplers/snow.html
An excellent list of resources compiled by National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region (NN/LM PNR) Staff.
WWNURSE.COM: School Nursing Resources: http://www.wwnurse.com/nursing/school.shtml
Links to school nursing resources.

Children's and Adolescents' Health Web Sites

AMA Adolescent Health Online: http://www.ama-assn.org/adolhlth/adolhlth.htm
The American Medical Association's (AMA) Program on Child and Adolescent Health resources for information on adolescent health issues and their Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive Services (GAPS) program.
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: http://www.aacap.org/web/aacap/
Includes both clinical and consumer health information.
American Academy of Family Physicians: http://www.aafp.org/
Health information for the practitioner and consumers.
American Academy of Pediatrics: http://www.aap.org/
Information for practitioners and consumers.
Better Health: Children's Health: http://www.betterhealth.com/childrens/
From iVillage.com, it includes general health information as well as chat rooms and message boards.
drkooop.com: Children's Health: http://www.drkoop.com/resource/childrens/
An excellent site for health information for children and adolescents.
healthfinder: http://www.healthfinder.gov/
A database of health information, much of it from government publications; it includes lists of organizations.
KidsHealth at the AMA: http://www.ama-assn.org/insight/h_focus/nemours/index.htm
Health information from the American Medical Association.
Infectious Diseases in Children: http://www.slackinc.com/child/idc/idchome.htm
Current news and information along with specialty forums.
InteliHealth: Childhood Conditions: http://www.intelihealth.com/ (select "Childhood Conditions" from this page)
Health information from Johns Hopkins University Hospital and Health System.
MedlinePlus: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
From the National Library of Medicine, includes information on a variety of health topics, as well as list of organizations, medical dictionaries, and other resources.
MedWeb: Pediatrics: http://WWW.MedWeb.Emory.Edu/MedWeb/ (select "Browse by Keyword" then select "Pediatrics"
An extensive list of sites with health information on children and adolescents from Emory University.
OHSU Links to Consumer and Patient Education Resources: Child and Adolescent Health: http://www.ohsu.edu/library/consumerhealth/children.shtml
A list of links to sites with good health information for children, parents, and providers.
Society for Adolescent Medicine: http://www3.uchc.edu/~sam/samfinal/introduction-low.html
Includes links to adolescent health information.

Selected by Dolores Zegar Judkins, MLS