Nursing Year 1 Resources

Information about working as a nurse in the NWT.

The overall purpose of this program is to educate nurses to work with individuals, families, groups and communities in a variety of settings guided by a health promotion perspective with an ethic of caring.

The Clinical Practice Guidelines have been prepared by Health Canada's First Nations and Inuit Health Branch (FNIHB) for use by community health nurses employed by Health Canada providing primary care in isolated, semi-isolated, and remote First Nations communities.

The CNA Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses is a statement of the ethical values of registered nurses and nurses licensed in extended roles, such as nurse practitioners. It demonstrates nurses' commitment to persons with health-care needs and persons receiving care

Contains numerous resources on nursing ethics in Canada and in an International setting

The mission of the Canadian Indigenous Nurses Association is to improve the health of Indigenous Peoples, by supporting Indigenous Nurses and by promoting the development and practice of Indigenous Health Nursing.

National organization of nursing students in Canada.

The International Council of Nurses (ICN) is a federation of more than 130 national nurses associations (NNAs), representing the more than 20 million nurses worldwide.

Covers a variety of nursing topics and updated frequently

A free, non-profit, online searchable database of medical mnemonics to help remember the important details.

The Visible Human Project has generated over 18000 digitized sections of the human body. This introduction and tour uses images and animals from the project to teach key concepts in human anatomy.

Animated Text Narrations and Quizzes to Explain the Structures and Functions of the Human Body Systems.

The Internet Drug Index for prescription drugs, medications and pill identifer

From Merck Manuals (Consumer Version). Can look up drugs by brand or generic name

The best first place to go for medical information

From the Canadian Institute for Health Information. Search related terms or filter by theme

From the Canadian Nurses Association. Includes workforce trends, RN, LPN, and RNP supply, education, employment and demographics stats

Main page of StatsCan. Access statistical information about a wide variety of topics

From Statistics Canada. Includes Check-up on Canada's Health and many health data resources

A good website to look for any Canadian information related to health

Surveillance statistics on various issues including infectious diseases, food outbreaks, antimicrobial resistance, injuries, and more

Main page for NWT Bureau of Statistics.