Resources especially helpful to Nurses, Physicians and health professionals

= visit first!

Advance Directives

Listed by state by CID

Advance Directives
Maine Bureau of Elder/Adult Services

Advance Directives
Health Hippo

Advancing Moral Reasoning
Nursing students and ethics courses

American Pain Society
Founded in 1978, over 3,200 health care members

American Society for the Advancement of Palliative Care
Attempting to reform terminal health practices

Aneurysm Support Page

State University of West Georgia

Anxiety and Sudden Cardiac Death

Cardiovascular Institute of the South

Bioethics Online Service
Medical College of Wisconsin

Brain Death Protocols
By D. John Doyle MD PhD FRCPC

Cancer Pain Education for Patients/Families

Jo Eland PhD RN FAAN FNAP
Univ of Iowa College of Nursing

Cancer Pain Release Newsletter

World Health Organization

CancerWeb
Dr Graham Dark at Gray Laboratory server

Center for Death Education/Research
University of Minnesota contact info

Center for Disease Control and Prevention
U.S. prevention agency

Center to Improve Care of the Dying
George Washington University

Choice In Dying
End of life decisions

ChronicIllnet

Many chronic illnesses covered

Chronic Pain, Fibromyalgia, CFS

Information on chronic pain and related issues

Coalition on Organ and Tissue Donation
"Share your life, Share your decisions" - public awareness

Clinical Psychologist - Ronald Mann
Integrating spirituality into healing process

Competent Care For the Dying
NEJM Editorial by Kathleen Foley MD

Continuing Education for Nurses
Featured site: SpringNet offers online CEU's

David Balwins' Trauma Info Pages
Emotional trauma and traumatic stress (PTSD)

Death and Dying in America
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation library

Death Statistics in Canada
1992 stats compiled from public resources

Death Studies
Magazine info, research in death

Debbi Dickinson - Bereavement Professional
Teacher, presenter, poet

Depression in Primary Care - Glossary of Terms

National Library of Medicine HSTAT

Depression - Clinician Guide
National Library of Medicine AHCPR

Disaster Handbook
Guide to natural disaster management
University of Wisconsin

Doctors Cry, Too
Dr. Frank Boehm's collection of essays

Doctor Assisted Suicide Guide
Longwood College Library - web site and lit guide

Do Dying Patients Really Need IV Fluids?
Article, AJN March 1997

Do Not Resuscitate Orders
Pamphlet on DNR law in New York

Do Not Resuscitate Orders - Out-Of-Hospital Setting
Am College of Emergency Physicians

Death to Dust: What happens to dead bodies?
Chapter 3: Organ, Tissue and Whole Body Donation
by Kenneth V. Iserson, M.D MBA

Dying in Dignity SIG
MENSA group with news journal

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
WIC bio, expert in death/dying

Emergency - Guide to Services of the World
Fire, EMS, police, more

End of Life Issues Conference - May

Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center

Ethical Aspects of CPR
Global Health Disaster Network

European Journal of Palliative Care Online
Free after registration

Factors Affecting Opinions on Life Support in the Elderly
American Physical Therapy Association

Feeding Permanently Unconscious Patients
American Dietetic Association position

Forensic Entomology

Insects give clues

Fort Wayne Sexual Assault Treatment Center
Rape trauma syndrome, links

Grief in a Family Context
Indiana U Education course
Kathleen R. Gilbert, Ph.D.

Guide to Psychotherapy on the WWW
Online dictionary of mental health

Home Care Guide - Advanced Cancer
American College of Physicians

Hospital Chaplain's Ministry of America
Nonsectarian org since 1939

Institute for the Study and Treatment of Pain (ISTOP)
Non-profit org, Canadian

International Association of Forensic Nurses
New specialty, do visit nurses!

International Transplant Nurses Society
Membership, events, grants

International Network for the Definition of Death
Brain death, anencephaly, spinal cord, neuro, life issues

Journal of Personal and Interpersonal Loss
Magazine info

Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Georgetown University

Last Acts
Coalition to improve quality of dying RWJF

Living/Dying Project
Support and education programs, seminars.

Living Wills/Power of Attorney
North Carolina Bar Association

Long Term Care Today
For longterm care professionals

Management of Pregnancy, Anencephalic Baby
Eugene F. Diamond, MD, Loyola University

Managing Grief Better: People with Developmental Disabilities
Article by Prof. Sheila Hollins

Medical Investigation
UNM School of Medicine

Medical Students Supporting Life
Prolife nonprofit org

MORTALITY
Academic journal on death

Mount Ida National Center for Death Education

Conferences, CEU's, certificate

National Health Interview Survey
Longitudinal study on aging

Nursing Ethics
International journal, free sample copy

Nursing Ethics Network
Purpose, board, learn more!

ONCOLINK
Univ of Penn Cancer Center resource

PainNet

Geared toward physicians

Point of Death - Medical Ethics/Euthanasia
Course notes from medical ethics seminar

Post Traumatic Stress Disorders
Trauma Assessment Team assistance

Project on Death in America
Excellent resource, a "must visit" site

Renew Center for Personal Recovery
Grief Counseling for individuals and organizations

Roxane Pain Institute
Library, lectures, hospice

Screening For Clinical Problems
Includes: dementia, depression, suicide
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center

Social Worker Standard of Practice
Inpatient Death, Univ of Washington Medical Center

Social Workers Web Resources
Index for social work

Suicide and Depression
Another section of this website

Task Force on Death & Dying AMSA
American Medical Students Association

The Good Doctor's Oaths, Quotes, and Prayers for Physicians

From Hippocratic oath to prayers for the dead

Tissue Services and Banking Home Page

American Red Cross

TransWEB - Transplantation and Donation

Detailed resources on organ transplation/donation

Trauma As A Public Health Problem

Article by Ronald Stewart & Harlan Root at UTHSCSA

Traumatology Journal
Study of traumatization process, reducing suffering

UB Center For Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care

interdisciplinary academic center of the Univ at Buffalo

UNOS Transplanation Information Site

United Network for Organ Sharing

Washington/Alaska Cancer Pain Initiative
Non-profit grass roots org

Weight Loss Linked to Death in Nursing Homes

Ohio State Research news

West Virginia Pain Initiave
To improve pain management for W VA cancer patients

What Skills Needed to Care For Dying Patients
American College of Physicians

When Death is Sought
NY Dept of Health, assisted suicide and euthanasia

World Health Org. - Mortality Database

Dataset information and resources

WorldWide Congress on Pain
From the Dannemiller Memorial Educational Foundation

The Writer's Pad
Group environment to remember loss in stories