Associations

• American Nurses Association - http://nursingworld.org/
  Nursing World is the official Web site of the Association.
• Nursing Organizations - http://dir.yahoo.com/Health/Nursing/Organizations/
  Yahoo's list of a wide variety of nursing associations.

Dictionaries

• Merriam Webster Medical Dictionary - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html
  A good online medical dictionary.
• Who Named It? - http://www.whonamedit.com/
  "A biographical dictionary of medical eponyms, i. e. medical conditions and techniques and the people for whom they are named.

General

• Alphabetic List of Specific Diseases/Disorders - http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/Alphalist.html
  Just about anything you want to know about a disease or condition can be found here.
• Bioethics Resources - http://www.siumed.edu/lib/hw/topics.html
  Good coverage of medical ethics.
• Clinical Calculators - http://www.medcalc.com/
  A sensibly arranged set of formulae and medical calculators.
• Cultural Resources - http://www.mc.uky.edu/PatientEd/culturemay2005.htm
  A fascinating set of links detailing how cultural differences can effect health care.
• Disease Classification - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd9.htm#RTF
  Downloadable version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9.)
  ICD 10 should be available soon.
• Emergency Nursing World - http://www.enw.org/TOC.htm
  "The entire world of emergency nursing."
• Martindale's Virtual Nursing Center - http://www.martindalecenter.com/Nursing.html
  Burn care, disaster management, emergency and geriatric nursing, nursing education, nursing research etc.
• Medpix - http://rad.usuhs.mil/medpix//medpix_home.html
  A collection of peer reviwed medical images from the Uniformed Services University.
• Medical Pictures - http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/pictures.html
  Pictures of a wide variety of disorders.
• NCBI Bookshelf - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Books
  Searchable full text collection of recent biomedical books.
  Lab Tests Online - http://www.labtestsonline.org/
  Helps patients and care givers understand lab tests.
• Merck Manuals - http://www.merck.com/pubs/
  Authoritative medical diagnosis manuals available free online.
• Nursing Care Plans - http://web.nmsu.edu/~ebosman/nursing/careplan.shtml
  Links to care plan sites on the Web compiled by a nursing school professor.
• Screening Physical Exam - http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/meded/medicine/pulmonar/pd/contents.htm
  This site shows how to peform a physical exam, what to look for normal and abnormal findings. Very detailed.
  

Journal Indexes

• Pub Med - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
  Pub Med includes over 15 million citations from Medline. It covering biomedical research journals back to the 1950's. For the most part, Pub Med supplies citations and abstracts, not full text journal articles. Any librarian can tell you how to obtain the full text of any needed article.
• Pub Med Tutorial - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html
  A series of tutorials which will help you search Pub Med effectively and quickly.

Nursing Search Engines

• Achoo All 4 One Meta Search - http://achoo.8media.org/
  This helpful site combines results from several search engines, but limits the results to medical sites.
• Mednets - http://www.mednets.com/
  One of the biggest collections of medical search engines on the Web.
• MedHunt - http://www.hon.ch/MedHunt/
  This search engine is limited to health, medical, hospital and similar sites.

Lists of Links to Reliable Web Pages

• Internet Resources for Nurses and Nursing Students - http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2006/april06/nursing.htm
  An outstanding list of useful nursing sites from the Associatin of College and Research Libraries.
• Northern Virginia Community College Core Resources for Nursing and Allied Health
  http://www.nvcc.edu/library/medical/CoreRes.htm
  This list of links covers biomedical links, evidence based practice, and reference resources.
• Northern Virginia Community College Nursing Links - http://www.nvcc.edu/library/medical/Nursing.htm
  Written for a program similar to Montgomery College's nursing program, this useful list of links is annotated.
• Duke University School of Nursing Information Page - http://www.duke.edu/~dhewitt/infopg/info.html
  A good list of links on a wide variety of subjects.

Pharmacology

• Med Errors - http://www.mederrors.com/
  Detailed information about the prevention of medication errors.
• Medline Plus Drug Information - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html
  Patient level information on medications.
• Rx List - http://www.rxlist.com/
  Professional level drug information. The advanced search function permits searches on side effects, drug interactions, patient information etc.

Research on the World Wide Web

• Medline Plus Guide to Healthy Web Surfing - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthywebsurfing.html
  A checklist of common sense guidelines which will help determine the quality of Web sites.
• Researching Medical Literature on the Internet - http://www.llrx.com/features/medical2005.htm
  Useful tips and links about finding medical information on the Web.