Thanks to blogs, YouTube, webcasts, podcasts, virtual conferences, and more, nursing information from around the globe is almost instantly available ... and often overwhelming. As you look for useful, timely, and clinically relevant information, you must sift through layers of Web sites, advertisements, and just plain litter strewn all over the information superhighway.
Our goal at Nursing2009 Critical Care is to streamline your online search for quality, relevant critical care nursing information. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, our publisher and a Wolters Kluwer company, soon will launch a new, more personalized online interface that combines journal content and various media. Our goal is to enable innovative collaboration and information-sharing among nursing professionals. Although the site is changing, you can still find us at http://www.nursing2009criticalcare.com.
Our new site will be easy to navigate, and throughout the coming year added features will include:
* all issues of Nursing2009 Critical Care from 2006 forward, with all articles free to subscribers
* online-only content
* podcasts and videos
* editors' picks and top picks that let you know what we think is particularly noteworthy and which articles users have accessed most often
* networking opportunities, including your comments on articles
* opportunities to create your own collections of articles and audiovisual extras
* the option of receiving really simple syndication (RSS) feeds and e-mailed news alerts. (RSS saves you time by letting you subscribe to site updates, such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, or video, and view them all in one place.)
These and other features will be unveiled over the coming year, so visit the site regularly and let us know what you think. And don't be surprised if the next nursing professional you see tapping on the keys of a BlackBerry, laptop, or iPhone is visiting the wealth of nursing information in the many new formats we offer at http://www.nursing2009criticalcare.com.
Until the next time: be healthy, be happy, and be great advocates for your patients!!
AnneMarie Palatnik, RN, APN-BC, MSN
Director of Clinical Learning Center for Learning Virtua Health Mount Laurel, N.J. [email protected]