Links for Nursing related Areas

Community Practitioners’ and Health Visitors’ Associationhttp://www.msfcphva.org/aboutcphva/cpaboutthissite.htm
The home area, contains the following information from the Amicus/CPHVA.

• Amicus/CPHVA responses to official (usually government) publications
• Access to the Community Practitioner website
• Amicus/CPHVA publications and online bookshop
• Links - the Amicus/CPHVA website directory provides links to a host of useful sites in the community nursing/primary care field.
• Amicus/CPHVA activity in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
• Information about professional and clinical practice issues plus projects and research relevant to community practitioners

Department of Health http://www.dh.gov.uk/Home/fs/en
About the Department
The Department's role is to help improve the health and well-being of the population of England. The Department provides strategic leadership to the NHS and social care organisations in England. It has overall responsibility for:

• setting the direction of health and social care services in England
• setting and monitoring standards for health and social care services
• ensuring NHS and social care organisations have the resources they need
• ensuring patients and the public can make choices about the health and social care services they use.

National Health Service www.nhs.uk
National Electronic Library for Health  http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/
This is a library resource

Links for Teaching

Teacher Net http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/teachingandlearning/
The site carries information about teaching and learning: teaching strategy, teaching and learning tips, learning psychology, and links to thousands of resouces.

Concept Stew Limited http://www.conceptstew.co.uk/PAGES/home.html
Has free resources and also you can get a demo of statistics for the terrified

Stats book on line http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/

Super site for all the tests http://helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/bto/statistics/tress1.html

University of Oxford http://techniques.geog.ox.ac.uk/mod_2/index.htm

Time Web http://www.bized.ac.uk/timeweb/sitemap.htm
Gives you information on how to use statisitics

Excellent site with everything to do stats by hand http://asio.jde.aca.mmu.ac.uk/new_rd/filelist.htm#menu

British Medical Journal on line stats book http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/statsbk/
The  BMJ (British Medical Jounral) online statistics book,  edited by M.Campbell. An excellent set of notes - don't be put off by the source if you are not a biomedical student, there is much of value.

Statsoft http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html
The Statsoft electronic textbook, is a very useful set of notes about many statistical methods, including some that are only briefly covered in this course. The Glossary is particularly useful.

The Prism Guide http://www.graphpad.com/articles/interpret/principles/stat_principles.htm
The Prism guide to interpreting statistical results is an excellent set of resources from the publishers of Prism (a data analysis package). It is possible download the entire set of notes as a pdf file

Web pages that perform stats tests http://statpages.org/
John C. Pezzullo's astonishingly long list of web pages (free) that perform statistical calculations contain links to pages that carry out all types of analyses, including many related to sample sizes and statistical power. There are also links to free software, books, online courses, etc..

Calculators for statistics http://www.physics.csbsju.edu/stats/

ULCA stats calculator http://calculators.stat.ucla.edu/powercalc/
The UCLA online statistical power calculator is easy to use and very helpful.