Allnurses (formerly Worldwide Nurse) provides at the bottom of a neartly organized homepage categorized links to annotated sites covering different kinds of nursing specialties, such as critical care, home health, forensic and so on. The top of the home page is occupied by current news affecting nurses, and discussion lists for nurses. Advertising occupies much space.

Hardin MD- Nursing is a selective but unranked list of nursing sites provided by people at the University of Iowa.The sites listed first are not necessarily the most useful and several are focused on nursing outside the U.S.

Healthweb Nursing Pages provides information about nursing careers, clinical nursing, nursing education and research in nursing. It is the product of the University of Michigan and others. The interface is simple and links are helpfully annotated. You will find under "Resources" several nursing journals with full-text online. [Changed URL - current link leads you to home page of Healthweb. New link leads you to Healthweb's Nursing page.]

Internet Resources for Nurse Practitioner Students, from the University of California in San Francisco, is one nurse's "grab bag" of sites. The Nurse Practitioner Resources list consists mainly of professional organizations. The link to the University of Central Florida's Resources for Nurses and Families may be the most useful one.

Lippincott's Nursing Center is useful for current news articles about events and issues in nursing. The full-text of several of this publisher's own journals are available online but no subject searching is possible.

Nursing and Health Professionals' Resources has a search engine for finding full-text articles in this publisher's own database. For a few specific topics, its selective lists of web sites may be useful.

Nurse Options USA is a job search site for temporary and permanent position seekers.

Nurse's PDR Resources Centeris good for brief descriptions of prescription drugs. It also contains very long lists of links for some nursing topics.

Nursing Sites on the World Wide Web is provided by University of Buffalo Health Sciences Library. Perhaps most important are the "Electronic Journals" and "Nursing Sites" links in the left-hand site index. This is a potentially great resource but limited by the fact that you can't search the contents of all the journals as you can in an aggregated database (such as EBSCO or ProQuest). The "Nursing Sites" links are helpfully annotated.

Primary Care Internet Guide , based at the University of Bergen, Norway, has the most global reach of any site in this list. The too-brief abbreviated items in the menu at top are the key to a huge collection of sites, including many universities with nursing programs. And because there is virtually no annotation, this site is best for those who either know exactly what online resource they are looking for OR who like to explore.