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Websites of Interest

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EBSCOhost
Heart Murmur Pro The app itself features a home screen with quick access to the 23 heart sounds contained in the app, beginning with normal heart sounds
PubMed for Handhelds
Read by QxMD Read by QxMD’ provides a single place to discover new research, read outstanding topic reviews and search PubMed.
RNAO BPG Get the knowledge of RNAO's Nursing Best Practice Guidelines on your mobile device with RNAO's BPG App.

CMAJ
CMAJ podcasts bring you regular issue highlights, interviews with authors and experts on important topics, practical clinical information and more.
Evidence-Based Nursing from BMJ
Published quarterly, the purpose of Evidence-Based Nursing is to select from the health related literature research studies and reviews that report important advances relevant to best nursing practice. In this podcast EBN authors explain their articles and help put them in a wider context.
Geriatric Nursing
A series of lectures for nurses interested in Geriatric Nursing. Produced by the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA.
Medscape Nurses Podcast
Some of these short episodes are curated from the CDC and other general medical information sources. The topics are those most relevant to the nursing scope of practice.
NurseEM
Current conversations and evidence-based practice issues related to Emergency Nursing.
Nursing Show
Every weekly Nursing Show episode features news, tips and tricks, medication information, nursing career interviews, education and commentary for nurses, RN, LPN, BSN, and nurse students, and anyone interested in general medical information.

AJN Video Gallery
ProQuest MedCom
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source offers over 1,200 video clips from MedCom covering important topics such as health care safety, emergency planning, checking vital signs and many more.

Using PubMed in Evidence-based Practice
Designed for clinicians to help frame clinical questions- watch the video then complete the quiz or exercise.