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Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner Care
http://www.nurse.org/wa/arnpcare/

A comprehensive site with a directory of nursing websites and links to information for many nursing specialties as well as general nursing information. Register to get full access. You may join the online discussion forums and/or subscribe to the free electronic nursing newsletter NurseZine.

A tremendous directory from the Karolinska Institutet Library in Sweden. Just about anything you ever wanted to know about a disease or condition can be found here.

AJN - American Journal of Nursing

American Nursing Association 

Association of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Nurses

AORN Journal (subscription included with AORN membership; nomember subscriptions are available) 
http://www.aorn.org/AORNJournal/


CINAHL® Plus with Full Text
The definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature

http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/
Regularly updated information about federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers.

Directory of open access journals


This resource from MedlinePlus brings together information on drugs, herbs and supplements from many different sources.

Hardin MD is a "directory of directories" produced by the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences at the University of Iowa. Its purpose is to provide easy access to comprehensive resource lists in health-related subjects. It includes subject listings in large "one-stop-shopping" sites, such as MedlinePlus and Yahoo, and also independent discipline-specific lists.

A rich source of information on a variety of consumer health topics from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the nation's medical research agency. You can either browse health categories or browse the list of all Health Topics A-Z.

Humboldt State University: Nursing Resources on the Web 

Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists.

The Virtual Nursing Center has links to many nursing resources including evidence-based guidelines, nurses' online courses and tutorials, electronic nursing journals, interactive case studies, etc. This is part of Martindale's Health Science Guide which has a wealth of health-related resources.


MedTerms online medical dictionary is the medical reference for MedicineNet.com, containing easy-to-understand explanations of over 16,000 medical terms. See About the MedTerms Medical Dictionary for more information. 

National League for Nursing   

NIH Clinical Center Nursing Department Standards of Practice 


The Nursing Theory Page is a collaborative effort by an international group to develop a collection of resources about nursing theories throughout the world. The project began on 21 May 96 and will always be a work in progress. This page is an unusual resource.

Oncology Nursing Society

Oncology Nurses Society PEP “Put Evidence into Practice”

Online Journal of Issues in Nursing 

ONJI--On-line Journal of Nursing Informatics 
http://www.ojni.org
http://phpartners.org/
Helping the public health workforce find and use information effectively to improve and protect the public's health.

Pubmed comprises more that 22 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher websites. It includes access to MEDLINE, the world's most extensive listing of medical journal articles.

TOXNET - Toxicology Database
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/
Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.