Resources
Resources outside the realm of the Mary Mahoney Professional Nurses Organization
The Mary Mahoney Professional Nurses Organization strives to be a fantastic resource, and a gateway to other resources as well. The following are just a small sample of our favorites.
We are always looking for opportunities to add to our list of outside resources. If you have any you'd like us to include here, please let us know.
MMPNO
P.O. Box 22003
Seattle, WA 98122-0003
206-632-2524
info@marymahoney.org
The All College Directory, http://www.AllCollege.org, lists contact information for every college in the United States. The colleges are indexed by city and by state.
Not everyone has the luxury of being able to attend all their years of college away from home. If you need a lot of flexibility in order to fit education into your life, you might consider an online degree or distance education program. Students in these programs can attend class anywhere they have access to a computer, and at any time. Although nursing is most definitely not a profession one can learn entirely online, some colleges will allow a student to take certain prerequisite courses online. The All College Directory includes a large list of online colleges whose offerings include fully accredited Associate, Bachelor's, and Master's degrees.
College is becoming increasingly expensive. Prospective students have to research the best loans, discover scholarships, create budgets, and reason out how much to save, how much they'll have to borrow, and how much they'll have to repay. FinAid, http://www.finaid.org/, has offered student financial advice since 1994. For questions whose answers aren't easily found on the site or in the FAQ, the site offers the opportunity to ask a financial aid professional.
The American Nurses Association, http://www.nursingworld.org/, does have members-only material on their Web site, but their substantial free offerings include lots of of relevant and
timely free content. Start with "The Nursing Insider", which tracks news items of interest, such as the changing
landscape of health care policy and service-provisioning across the
country. If you need historical data for trends analysis or research papers, the "Nursing Insider" online archive
reaches back to 2000. Don't miss the Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, a high-quality peer-reviewed online academic publication that doesn't shy away from discussing challenges in the field. The Publications section of this Web site contains several free publications, including quite a few that address the
possibility of pursuing a career in nursing.
Volunteering can open a lot of doors for people interested in a nursing career. In 2004, a Campus Compact study found that over 30 percent of all college students volunteer, averaging four hours per week. Their annual work was worth more than $4 billion. For students, and anyone else who would like to make a difference, the Idealist.org can help a person find the best position. The site, http://www.idealist.org, lists over 10,000 volunteer opportunities, searchable by location, dates available, skills required, and the type of service that's to be provided (medical, seniors, children, public health, health education, specialty services, disaster relief, etc.). People who sign up for "My Idealist" get e-mail updates about nonprofit opportunities, can join discussion groups, and can create a profile so that organizations can contact them. Idealist.org also offers resources and tips for volunteers, as well as information on internships, job fairs, and careers.
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