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The Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures has been the definitive, market-leading guide to clinical nursing skills for over three decades. This indispensable guide sets the gold standard for nursing care, providing the procedures, rationale, and guidance required by qualified nurses to deliver clinically effective, patient-focused care with expertise and confidence.
The Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures:
Provides content written by nurses for nurses
Empowers nurses to become informed, skilled practitioners
Reflects current procedures and changes in modern adult nursing practice
Includes procedures supported by up-to-date evidence with detailed rationales for each step of each procedure
Considers the clinical governance around procedures and nursing practice
Integrates NMC 2018 ‘Future Nurse: Standards of Proficiency for Registered Nurses’ guidance
Contains new content on ‘Self Care and Wellbeing,’ helping nurses to care for themselves emotionally and physically
Access the manual here and log in using your OpenAthens login details. For help with this please email the library team academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk
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The rise of virtual healthcare – Med-Tech Innovation – Latest news for the medical device industry
Med-Tech Innovation editor Ian Bolland is joined by Dag Larsson from digital health company Doccla to discuss virtual wards, remote patient monitoring and whether this technology will really stick following the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Women’s Prize for Fiction is the UK’s most prestigious annual book award celebrating and honouring fiction by women. The Prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in writing by women in English from throughout the world. The 2021 shortlist was announced on 28th April, with the winner being announced on the 7th July.
2021 International Booker Prize winner to be announced on 2nd June
The judges of the 2021 International Booker Prize have shortlisted six books in contention for the prize, which celebrates the finest translated fiction from around the world.
Source: The King’s Fund Health Management and Policy Alert
This year’s Social Care 360 report uses the latest available data (2019/20) to describe the key trends in adult social care as the Covid-19 pandemic struck and to suggest what the impact of the pandemic might be. It paints quite a bleak picture of adult social care in England, with many key indicators already going in the wrong direction before the pandemic struck.