FYI. Medscape.com

[BluegrassRN]

Just a heads up. I'm very much enjoying medscape.com recently. I have let some of my subscriptions to nursing journals go, to save money, reduce the amount of waste it generates, and frankly, because I often don't read them, and I don't have a place to store them.

I signed up for medscape.com to retrieve an article for a class in my RN-BSN program. I get their daily digest--sometimes I read it, sometimes not. Some days I have quite a bit of time to kill, and I love the articles. I've printed several out for work. You have to sign up, but registration is totally free.

They have a general article area, and they also have a section for nurses. The case studies are interesting, too, although I stink at them. My 14 year old daughter reads them with me, and she has a higher tally than I do! I'm always reading too much into the dang EKG tracings, and she totally ignores them and usually just guess. On the positive side, she's now thinking she wants to be a doctor or nurse.

Perhaps I'm the last person on allnurses.com to be aware of this, but I just wanted to let you know about it.

[Whispera, MSN, RN]

you can get CEUs too! for free!

[medicrn13]

I love Medscape.com...been getting the newsletters for almost a year now. I love the case-based scenarios.

[rubystar]

I've recently discovered that site as well. I love it.

[teeniebert, LPN]

It's right under allnurses in my bookmarks.

[Elginite]

I post about this often because I'm on a mission to find the right sources and want to share what I've found. Everyone else, please share too!

I like Medscape too, but the info is too broad so I only check it once in awhile. Every week though I get an email from Medinfonow.com that is specific to the fields I've chosen. Their site has a search function that was created by medical librarians, so it's even more targeted than PubMed.

emedicine is like webmd and tells us what we already know, not what's new.

If anyone knows of something better, please tell me . . . I have been searching and searching but cannot find anything more focused and relevant to my needs than Medinfonow.

[netglow, ASN, RN]

Nurse.com has had some good stuff lately. A little more in depth and a little more nursing. I've recently done a few CEs that were pathophys based, more scientific... which is what I retain. Sometimes Medscape nursing stuff is a little too "light" for me.

[rn undisclosed name]

Medinfonow is kind pricey! Is there a way to get it for free? $89.00 for a year. Yowza!

[Aliakey]

If you have an iPhone, Medscape also has a free app to download. I find it useful for a quick reference of medications or medical conditions that are not real familar to me, and you can do CEUs on it as well.

Just FYI.

[rn undisclosed name]

I have it but it seems the medical conditions I want to look up aren't on there. Then if I haven't used it in awhile I always have to wait for it to download first and that takes awhile.