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Booklets and guides
The essential guides and resources in this section have been developed to offer guidance and practical assistance for nurses in clinical practice. Most are also frequently used as a teaching appliance. Some include video clips of patients, a summary of a larger guide or policy, and patient or client input. All are easy to read, have a practical use and will help nurses to update themselves clinically and improve patient care and outcomes.
In this section:
- Administration of depot and long-acting antipsychotic injections
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It is essential for healthcare professionals to share good practice and information with those who use health and social care services. - Antipsychotic drugs in dementia: a best practice guide
This guide has been written by Deborah Sturdy, independent nurse consultant; Hazel Heath, independent nurse consultant for older people; Professor Clive Ballard, director of research at the Alzheimer's Society; Professor Alistair Burns, national clinical director for dementia and professor of old age psychiatry at the University of Manchester. - Autism
The Autism Act 2009: developing specialist skills in autism practice - Burnout - a spiritual crisis
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Stress is undoubtedly closely associated with burnout, the latter being presumed to flow from an extreme experience of the other. - Calculation skills for paediatric nursing
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The guide starts with straight forward calculations and progresses to more complex ones, such as those needed by nurses working in paediatric intensive care. It does not cover every type of calculation but aims to provide guidance and practical exercises for commonly encountered problems. - Caring for older people in acute care settings
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At a time when the care of older people in homes and hospitals has been under scrutiny, new guidelines have been published to support and guide the practice of individual nurses working in acute settings. - Childhood obesity and lifestyle
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The environmental and behavioural changes relating to diet and physical activity that have taken place over the past three decades have had a great impact on the ability of children to maintain an appropriate level of growth. - Continuing healthcare and funded nursing care in the NHS
NHS continuing healthcare (CHC) is a major issue. It is relevant to all adult client groups and all settings in England. During the year 2010-2011, some 50,000 people in England received NHS CHC (DH 2011). Registered nurses (RNs) are central in implementing NHS CHC and NHS-funded nursing, including supporting their primary care trusts (PCTs). - Cultural and spiritual awareness
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Given the immense diversity between different cultures and religions, this guide offers general useful advice for the following communities/religons: - Discharge planning
It is essential for healthcare professionals to share good practice and information with those who use health and social care services. - Healthcare assistants and assistant practitioners: Delegation and Accountability guide
The purpose of this guide is to address some of the key issues regarding the delegation of tasks to health care assistants (HCAs), and to offer practical guidance on a number of topics, including: Training, Supervision, Liability, accountability and responsibility. - Improving quality of care for people with dementia in general hospitals
Going into hospital offers an opportunity for people to receive the care they need in crisis situations and for acute illness to be treated. - Innovations in smoking cessation
Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) is a proven treatment for tobacco dependence and has been available on prescription since 2001 for smokers who are ready to set a quit date and stop abruptly. - Insulin pump therapy
This guide looks at the use of insulin pumps for people with diabetes, including a patient’s perspective. - Let's Respect: The mental health needs of older people
At any one time, older people occupy up to two thirds of NHS beds. As many as 60 per cent of them will have mental health needs - mainly dementia, delirium and depression (RCP 2005). - Living well with dementia in a care home
Living well with Dementia: A National Dementia Strategy(Department of Health (DH) 2009a), published by the DH (England) in February 2009, provides a strategic framework within which local services can: - Management of patients with wet age-related macular degeneration
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of irreversible blindness in people aged 50 years and over in the Western world. - Nutrition and older people
Nutrition has made headlines in the national media and the nursing press in recent years. - Promoting older people’s oral health
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Oral care is recognised as a neglected area of practice (Miegel and Wachtel 2009) and regarded as a key aspect of nursing in Essence of Care 2010: Benchmarks for Personal Hygiene (Department of Health (DH) 2010), which provides effective guidance on developing good practice. - Rheumatology
Hitting the target in rheumatoid arthritis - Supporting patients’ cancer treatment choices
In the UK, 300,000 people are diagnosed with cancer each year (Office for National Statistics 2010). As a result of the increased incidence and prevalence of cancer because of an ageing population and improvements in treatment, people with cancer are confronted with decisions about treatment to a greater extent than ever before. - Urinary continence management in older people
Urinary Incontinence is common in older people and, while it does not directly cause death, it does impair a person's quality of life and can have a major impact on where and how that life is led. - Vulnerable adults
In recent years the media has put child abuse under the spotlight, with high-profile cases of neglect by carers and catastrophic system failure producing harrowing accounts of children's suffering. It is an issue that evokes great public concern. We hear less about the abuse of vulnerable adults and, as a society, are not comfortable with acknowledging that it exists...
The RCN Publishing Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Royal College of Nursing, the world's largest organisation for nurses. RCN Publishing produces one weekly, eight monthly and two quarterly nursing publications. Nursing Standard, the flagship journal, is the UK's biggest selling weekly for nursing. It is produced by RCN Publishing Company along with a suite of specialist nursing journals - Cancer Nursing Practice, Mental Health Practice, Learning Disability Practice, Nursing Children and Young People, Nursing Management, Emergency Nurse, Nursing Older People, Nurse Researcher and Primary Health Care. RCN Publishing Company also produce the RCN Bulletin, a major source of up-to-the-minute information for RCN members in all specialities, grades and working environments. With the latest nurse vacancies from trusts nationwide, it has become the most cost-effective nurse recruitment magazine available.