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The U.S.
Department of Labor, Occupational Safety & Health
Administration provides information on OSHA's standards
on needlesticks and prevention, guidelines for choosing
safer needle devices, possible solutions for workplace
hazards and postexposure guidelines.
Sponsored by the American Nurses Association, "Safe
Needles Save Lives" features a needlestick fact
sheet. Brochures to educate nurses about safe needles
and bloodborne pathogens also can be ordered. The site
provides sample letters so that nurses can contact their
legislators and express their concern about needle and
bloodborne pathogen safety.
The American
Burn Association is committed to the study and research
of acute care, rehabilitation and prevention of burns.
Burn care providers can update their knowledge through
educational opportunities on the site.
Extensive burn prevention materials are offered, including
posters, burn awareness campaign kits and PowerPoint
presentations. For hospital staff, an information sheet
covers burn unit referral criteria.
Burnsurgery.org is dedicated to educating health care
professionals about burns. This site contains burn modules
on topics including burn prevention, initial management
of the burn patient, the burn wound, and metabolism
and nutrition.
Organdonor.gov,
created by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
and the Health Resources and Services Administration,
provides information about how and why to fill out a
donor card, and an organ/tissue donor card and donor
information brochure can be downloaded.
The site provides donor and recipient stories, critical
data and a glossary of terms. Links connect visitors
to numerous related sites, including the Association
of Organ Procurement Organizations and groups dedicated
to organ-specific transplantation.
The International
Transplant Nurses Society is a worldwide professional
organization representing all areas of transplantation.
The Web site provides a network for nurses to communicate,
continuing education and a mentoring program for transplant
nurses. Patient education booklets on kidney/pancreas
transplant and heart transplant can be downloaded.
For those interested in reading the stories of people
who have received donated organs and donor families,
visit TransWeb.org.
Nurses involved in extensive wound care may find themselves
caring for patients who are receiving hyperbaric treatments.
For information about hyperbaric nursing, particularly
the gas laws and physiology of gas laws related to hyperbaric
treatment, dive tables and the theory of compression,
visit the Hyperbaric
Medicine Unit, based in Scotland. This site also
provides a virtual tour of a hyperbaric chamber.
An additional resource for wound care is the Journal
of Wound Care. The Academy
of Wound Management offers information about a multidisciplinary
wound care certification.
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