The Canadian Association of Wound Care
The CAWC is a nonprofit organization of health care professionals, industry participants, patients and caregivers dedicated to the advancement of wound care in Canada.
National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel
Promotes pressure ulcer prevention and management through research, education and public policy. Includes newsletter, position statements, national and international links.
A nonprofit, international organization of clinical and basic scientific investigators interested in the field of wound healing.
Directory of Wound care Nursing Resources
CEU’s, interesting wound related sites and resources, e.g.: home health liability, centre for locomotion studies (diabetic foot care), HBO
Established as a site for accessing medical evidence in best practice for chronic wounds – offers an interactive onlineforum, summaries of wound care research, online wound journals and links to wound care products and services, manufactuers and organizations.
Association of Hong Kong Nursing Staffs
Association of Hong Kong Nursing Staffs (香港護士協會)
International Council of Nursing
International Council of Nursing
Hong Kong Community Nurses Association Limited
Hong Kong Community Nurses Association Limited (香港社康護協會)
The Hong Kong Academy of Nursing
The Hong Kong Academy of Nursing (香港護理專科學院)
Excellent site covering all aspects of cancer-related issues. “Cancernet” is a wealth of information in English and Spanish. Also contains press releases and announcements.
International Ostomy Association (IOA)
An organization offering support and education to ostomates. It publishes the Ostomy International Journal and the IOA News.
United Ostomy Association Inc. (UOA)
Offers support services, a youth rally, free information packets, and even a cookbook. This is a good site with plenty of links and information.
United Ostomy Association of Canada
This organization’s web page provides links to related sites and information on ostomies. Includes regional support services and help for ostomy patients.
Dedicated to the ileo-anal anastomosis of “J-Pouch”, this site offers information and support for those with Ulcerative Colitis and Familial Polyposis. It has discussion groups, success stories, links and more.
Friends of Ostomates Worldwide (FOW-USA)
Information & Membership
National Association For Continence (NAFC)
An excellent source of information about incontinence. The site provides a wealth of publications for health care professionals as well as consumers in the treatment of incontinence.
National Association for Home Care (NAHC)
Society of Urologic Nurses and Associates (SUNA)
Site features online ordering of publications, a sophisticated forum open to guests and new users, and chat.
Wellness Web Incontinence Center
Good patient information, also for novice clinician, e-mail, registery of continence specialists, therapies offered, references, and resources.
Nursing Care
American Holistic Nurses Association
Complementary and alternative modalities to traditional medicine. School of holistic health, books, videos, certification, includes links to other forms of therapy.
The site offers a quarterly online journal, access to publications and online references, and excellent page of links.
Energy work to enhance healing has been shown to promote wound healing, among many other benefits.
Clinical Information
The following is a list of relevant network resource which we hope will be helpful to the work of enterostomal therapist nurses around the world. You are welcomed to send us the address of any useful or relevant site that you discover on the web.
Searchable website containing fact sheets, statistics, publications for order and a health topics A-Z index.
CDC WONDER is an easy-to-use system that provides a single point of access to a wide variety of CDC reports, guidelines, and numeric public health data. It furthers CDC’s mission of information for state and local health departments, the Public Health Service, the academic public health community, and the public. CDC WONDER can be valuable in public health research, decision making, priority setting, program evaluation, and resource allocation.
Searchable and indexed site with information for health professionals, patients, consumers, etc. Webpage is broken down into different types of products such as “Human Drugs” and “Medical Devices”.
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Clearing house for publications, research, database, newsletter, information on clinical trials.
This WWW resource contains the following collections:
AHCPR Supported Guidelines
AHCPR Technology Assessment and Reviews
ATIS (HIV/AIDS Technical Information)
NIH Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Research Studies
NIH Consensus Development Program
PHS Guide to Clinical Preventive Services (Second Edition)
SAMHSA/CSAT Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP)
World’s directory of on-line learing and on-line education. Includes nursing and advanced nursing degress and many others.
Research, conference information, links
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine’s search service that provides access to over 11 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases, with links to participating online journals.
本地病人互助小組
香港造口人協會 (Hong Kong Stoma Association)
膀胱癌/ 腸癌(cancer of bladder/ Bowel)
Address: 九龍黃大仙下邨龍福樓14-15號地下
TEL: (852)28346096/ FAX: (852)28383873
兒童癌病基金 (Children’s Cancer Foundation)
兒童癌病 (children with cancers)
Address: 香港干諾道中125號東寧大廈702室
TEL: (852)28152525/ FAX: (852)28155511
病人互助組織聯盟 (Alliance for Patients’ Mutual Help Organizations}
Address: 九龍橫頭磡邨宏禮樓地下
TEL: (852)2304 6371 / FAX: (852)30116893
(External Links are not endorsed by HKETA – Recommended Only) We invite you to send us the web address of any useful or interesting site that you find on the web.
