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Welcome to the MERLOT Health Sciences Portal, an educational resource for health professionals. You are invited to join MERLOT―it's free―and contribute to this growing community of health professionals, health professional educators, and students by using the learning materials, submitting your own modules and assignments for evaluation, and learning ideas to help you learn as well as teach in a variety of settings.

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This overview and information is for health care professionals and students to understand and value the upcoming technology and medical advances related to genomics. It can be used in the classroom as a Powerpoint Presentation or assigned to students or health care staff for self-study.

Genetics and Genomics in Health Care in MERLOT

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Statistical Analyis Plan for iVAS
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Disease Prevention and Healthy Lifestyles | Simple Book Production
Disease Prevention and Healthy Lifestyles, by Judy Baker Ph.D., provides health-related content which allows students to...
Health Education
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States
This report was commissioned in September 2002, when 16 NIH institutes, centers, and offices plus the Agency for...
De Gruyter: Open Access Journals
De Gruyter publishes fully open access journals across Science, Technology, Mathematics (STM) and Humanities, Social...
IEEE Access: The Multidisciplinary Open Access Journal
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Access is an award-winning multidisciplinary, all electronic...
African Journals Online (AJOL)
African Journals Online (AJOL) is the world's largest library of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals,...
U.S. Air Force-Flight Nurse
This site provides a brief overview of the requirements to become a flight nurse in the U.S. Air Force.
Degree and Certificate Programs - Frederick Community College
Practice dosage exam for nursing students.
NBNA.org
This organization provides grants, publications, and more to promote African American nurses.
Stress Management
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The St. Jude Cloud
St. Jude Cloud is a genome data resource for pediatric cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Access sequencing...
Nursing Time Management Tips
Every day is different as a nurse, and so planning a schedule in advance may be easier said than done, so here are my...
Rising to the Challenge of Rural Nursing
The article outlines the challenges of rural nursing. Nurses who work in rural areas are paid less, have different...
Caring for patients in alcohol withdrawal - American Nurse Today
Be sure you’re prepared to care for patients going through Alcohol withdraw
Osmosis
Osmosis.org is a leading medical & health education platform with an audience of over 700,000 current & future clinicians...
8 Rights of Medication Administration
Chances are that some of you may not have known that in addition to the well-known 5 right of medication administration,...
American Journal of nursing Podcast
Evidence-Based Practice: Step by Step: Igniting a Spirit of Inquiry Podcast of Maureen “Shawn” Kennedy, MA, RN,...
How to Don PPE
Instructions on the correct way to place PPE
American Associated of Critical Care Nurses
AACN, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit association, is more than the world’s largest specialty nursing organization – we are an...
ANA Enterprise teaching resources
Our resource materials have been designed to help nurse educators inspire the next generation of health care...
College Drinking: Prevention Perspectives – Lessons Learned at Frostburg State University
Watch Episode 1 of SAMHSA’s latest resource and learn about the actions taken by Frostburg State University to reduce...
Culturally Competent Nursing Care
Being culturally competent while providing nursing care is imperative to caring for patients holistically. This article...
Documentation 101
An e-learning course suggested by the Learning Nurse Resources Network about the basics of documentation and medical...

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