Regulates the practice of registered nursing and certified advanced practice nurses to protect the health and safety of consumers and promote quality registered nursing care in California.

Protects the consumer from unprofessional and unsafe licensed vocational nurses (LVNs) and psychiatric technicians (PTs). Public protection is the highest priority of the Board in exercising its licensing, regulatory and disciplinary functions.

Provides the latest statistics and indicators on women and men in six specific fields: Population, Women and men in families, Health, Education, Work, Political decision making.

Advances the profession by fostering high standards of practice, promoting rights in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and by lobbying the Congress and regulatory agencies on health.

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Information and RN resources with a California focus. Major voice of unionized nurses in the United States.

The CSNO was formally organized in 1950 for "the promotion of comprehensive and constructive school health programs."

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Health and safety topics, fact sheets and more.

Reliable health information from federal, state, and local government sites

Reliable health information from federal websites on a wide variety of topics: diseases, population groups, wellness, statistics.

NCHS is the principal health statistics agency of the U.S. that compiles statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve the health of the nation.

Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.

Provides news and events, publications, resources, research information, FAQs and clinical trials.

Consumer health information covering topics rangeing from Alzheimer's to women's health; programs like Head Start, Medicaid, Medicare, and Welfare; information on drug safety, food labeling, food safety, and nutrition.

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These resources will help you write on the job and in the classes you will take to become a nurse. "Writing as a Professional Nurse" provides three general, though important, rules working nurses should keep in mind while writing reports and charts and while communicating with doctors and patients. "Writing in the Field" discusses three examples of writing tasks nurses perform: flowcharts, care plans, and narratives. "List of Nursing Resources" provides links to Purdue OWL resources.