Nurses working in the NHS can get support from specialist nursing resources and the Health Library to help them deliver the best patient care. Make sure you get the best evidence to:
- Support confident decisions
- Promote good practice
- Reflect on for your revalidation
- Promote your professional development
- Contribute to good patient care
Visit the Health Library
The Health Library offers you a quiet study environment where you can catch-up with paperwork, meet colleagues and complete training. You can use NHS-networked computers, accessible via your NHS login. Or borrow an NHS-based laptop to use within the Clinical Education Centre. Library staff are on-hand to help and support your access to resources.
Run quick searches on the NHS Knowledge & Library Hub
You don’t have to run searches on Google and waste time weeding out irrelevant results and searching for full-text options. Instead use the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub [UHNM]. You can run simple searches against a wealth of NHS-based resources, focused on healthcare issues. Log in with your NHS OpenAthens username to get the full-text options for each item in your search results.
Get evidence updates straight to your inbox
To make sure you’re up-to-date with the latest evidence and current clinical practice, register with KnowledgeShare to get key articles for your specialist topics straight to your inbox.
Get key information from key Oxford textbook titles
You can get recommendations, guidelines and practical advice
covering all aspects of your nursing role. Access this key, evidence-based,
specialty specific advice from the Oxford Medicine Online collection of ebooks.
You can read the full-text of titles from key Oxford
Handbooks online such as Oxford Handbook of…
- Cancer Nursing - covers all aspects of cancer care; from pre-diagnosis, through treatment, to issues of advanced disease and palliative care. It includes cancer biology, genetics and treatments, as well as new targeted and complementary therapies. It is fully updated to follow the current evidence-based research, and takes a multidisciplinary view of the subject.
- Cardiac Nursing - packed full of clinical information and practical advice, this book covers everything from assessment to cardiac rehabilitation. This new edition contains the emergency treatment of stroke as well as a new section on genetics, and information on the management of valvular disease has been expanded.
- Dental Nursing - a practical, easily accessible, informative, and up-to-date quick reference guide that a dental nurse can use throughout their career, from the initial training stage to qualification and beyond.
- Diabetes Nursing - a comprehensive overview of diabetes care. Includes evidence, information and guidance on the area making it an essential tool for practice nurses with a special interest in diabetes, a useful resource for those working in community and acute settings.
- Gastrointestinal Nursing - explore anatomy, physiology, diseases and conditions of the gastrointestinal tract and accessory organs. The focus is on a diversity of bowel functions, diseases, investigations, and surgery, which will assist the nurse in caring for people with issues related to their gastrointestinal tract.
- Musculoskeletal Nursing – an invaluable guide for all nurses and allied health professionals working with patients who have rheumatological and musculoskeletal conditions. Includes: musculoskeletal conditions and their management; clinical issues; and nursing care issues including treatment, nursing management, and tools.
- Neuroscience Nursing - equips the practitioner with a basic knowledge of the complex needs and specialist management of patients affected by wide range of neurological disorders. It gives some insight into the patient’s perspective of living with a neurological condition and presents the best available evidence to inform practice and nursing care.
- Nursing Older People - concentrating on the knowledge and skills needed by nurses working with older people, this is an invaluable source of information for both student and practising nurses. Acting as both a reference guide and support in everyday clinical decision-making, it is written by experienced nurses and contains a wealth of guidance and information.
- Perioperative Practice - provides practical, easily accessible and up-to-date evidence-based information on the essential elements of perioperative practice.
- Prescribing for Nursing and Allied Health Professionals - concise, practical and expert advice on all aspects of non-medical prescribing. Topics covered range from basic pharmacology, to the legal aspects and processes of prescribing practice, and prescribing for specific conditions and special groups. It features the most recent legislation and changes to prescribing standards, giving nurses and non-medical prescribers access to the most up-to-date information to inform their practice.
- Primary care and Community Nursing – concise and comprehensive coverage of evidence-based clinical knowledge as well as the organizational structure of community health services.
- Renal Nursing - a wealth of useful information on the aetiology of kidney disease, and aids with decision-making from initial assessment and diagnosis, through to the available treatments.
- Respiratory Nursing – this text offers a systematic description of the main respiratory diseases found in adults, and covers the assessment, diagnosis, and nursing management of each condition. With a special focus on the role of the multidisciplinary team in meeting the multiple care needs of respiratory patients, the Handbook covers both physical and psychosocial concerns, and both pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies.
- Surgical Nursing - a guide relating to all the core elements of surgical care.
- Trauma and Orthopaedic Nursing - an easily accessible, practical, and comprehensive guide to orthopaedic and trauma care. Includes new information about supporting people with a learning disability within orthopaedic and trauma care settings, virtual clinics, updated management and competencies, fast-track and enhanced recovery pathways, and a stronger emphasis on the health promotion role of nurses in the field.
- Women’s Health Nursing - a concise and invaluable reference on women's health which focuses on practical care pathways for common gynaecological conditions.
Access Oxford Handbooks
Log on to the Oxford Handbooks using your NHS OpenAthens username. Find Oxford Handbooks via:
Latest evidence and good practice from suggested journals: RCNi Collection
Stay up-to-date with the latest developments impacting nursing,
including changes in policy, practice and research with the following titles:
- Cancer Nursing Practice - specialist cancer-related topics, as well as broader issues such as palliative care and oncology nursing
- Emergency Nurse - practice-based journal, written specifically for nurses providing any aspect of emergency care
- Learning Disability Practice - written for nurses who care for people with learning, or intellectual, disabilities
- Mental Health Practice - provides a wide range of information to develop creative and evidence-based approaches to practice
- Nursing Children and Young People - covers evidence-based practice in child health nursing; promotes excellence in neonatal, infant, and young people’s care
- Nursing Management - trusted advice for senior managers, nurses in leadership roles and aspiring nurse leaders across all nursing disciplines
- Nursing Older People - leading specialist journal for nurses who care for older people across a range of health and social care settings
- Nurse Researcher - the only research methodology journal written specifically for nurses and healthcare staff
- Nursing Standard - authoritative coverage of the latest nursing news plus peer-reviewed clinical content and CPD articles
- Primary Health Care - keeps readers at the forefront of community and primary care health nursing
How to find a nursing journal title
All journal
titles are listed on our Browzine journals list:
- Go to our UHNM Browzine journals lists
- Learn how to use Browzine to view NHS journals
Practice good patient care by checking the nursing procedures from the Royal Marsden Manual Online
The Royal Marsden
Manual Online for Nurses provides easy to read advice and support about nursing procedures.
Access the Royal Marsden Manual Online
All NHS can access the Royal Marsden Manual Online by logging in via NHS OpenAthens.
Register for an NHS OpenAthens user to access full-text
You will need to log in using your NHS OpenAthens username to access full-text. You can:
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