The Official Journal of The World Federation of Critical Care Nurses

In association with

the European federation of Critical Care Nursing associations

http://www.promotingexcellence.org

Promoting excellence in end-of-life care:

(seen on 27th of May 2005)
Recent years the critical care arena recognised that little evidence is available about the delivery of end-of-life care in the intensive care units. Emphasis is given to establish best practice models based on the current knowledge and recent studies. The promoting excellence website is a good initiative to establish a forum of leaders in end-of-life in critical care from various parts of the World. If you visit this website, continue to click on to the “critical care working group”. The mission statement of this working group is to promote excellence in end-of-life care for patients and their families in critical care settings. To achieve this mission this group tries to defining the gaps between ideal standards and current practices; to identify and disseminate existing resources; to develop new resources that respond to prevailing deficiencies; and to define a research, education and policy agenda that advances the goal of excellence in end-of-life care

http://www.sccm.org/professional_resources/rcrn/index.asp

Right Care Right Now™:

(seen on 27th of May 2005)
The Society of Critical Care Medicine launched the Right Care Right Now™ program. This is all about giving the Right care at the Right moment in time to achieve optimal patient outcomes. In critical care we have had many quality approaches and they all aimed to achieve better patient outcomes. However, success is often related to multi-disciplinary teamwork and the promotion of established organisations that have proven successful programmes. This website gives you a clear understanding how to change you critical care practice and to ensure consistency in delivering critical care services. Of course the SCCM website offers more valuable info – it’s always a joy to browse around

http://www.4um.com/tutorial/

Tutorials for beginners and advanced critical care nurses:
Also www.ccmtutorials.com/
(seen on 27th of May 2005)
These days in many countries e-learning is common practice. Therefore many energetic colleagues have established websites for online learning. These two websites give the critical care practitioner various options to improve their critical care skills. The level of the courses is from basic to advanced. These websites are worth a visit to improve you skills; from problem oriented cases to the very specific knowledge of sepsis and clinical anaesthesia. Graphs and pictures illustrate and give you insight in the problem discussed in the courses. I do not have to add more to guide you to these websites. Both sites are a great way to improve your knowledge

http://scholar.google.com

The latest feature of Google:

(seen on 27th of May 2005)
One of the most used search engines in the internet World is Google.com. Indeed, it is a very handy tool to search in an easy and quick way for the information you are seeking.
But did you know their latest feature, the scholar.google.com? Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. You can use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
This website works the same as the well-known Google web search page. Easy!