The notion of caring and revolution do not appear to go comfortably hand in hand yet it appears that revolutionary thinking is necessary to facilitate for advances in nursing practice to take place (Sheehan 1990). This is an account of a computing project which has taken place in an NHS trust hospital aimed at incorporating the World Wide Web as a resource for nurses and midwives in facilitating practice development. It is argued that a computer will never be able to replace the physical care given by nurses to people, but that it has the potential of providing access to a comprehensive nursing knowledge resource which could support research based practice to address care needs.