Royal Marsden Manual

A Professional’s Take on the Royal Marsden Manual

What type of effort and expertise does it take to create and maintain a textbook so definitive that it’s become known as “the Bible for nursing?” Hear directly from Sara Lister, head of pastoral care and psychological support for The Royal Marsden and an editor for The Royal Marsden Manual for 17 years.

Hear from Sarah Lister in this short video.

The 9th edition of this textbook is available in the Gosall Library, reference only, please see details in the library catalogue: Heritage Online and we also have a subscription to the 10th online edition which may be accessed using your OpenAthens login details.

Please email the library academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk for help or more information.

Royal Marsden Manual Online

New Student Companion Site now available

The new Student Companion site is now available as part of our online subscription to the Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures. The site gives you access to the rich tools and resources available for the manual.

There are plenty of exciting learning tools for student nurses to help test and grow their knowledge such as:

  • “Drag and Drop” Sequencing Exercises- Drag and drop the steps of key following clinical procedures into the correct order to test their knowledge and understanding
  • Label the Diagram
  • Full Glossary- Find out the definition of some of those key terms
  • Question and Answers for each Chapter
  • Additional Reading- learn what other Nursing products Wiley has to offer which can support their development

Library Newsletter

June 2021

The June edition of the Library Newsletter is now available to view here.

Please feel free to download and share with your colleagues and/or department.

If you would like to see any additional features on our newsletter or have any queries regarding information featured in this month’s newsletter, please get in touch by emailing: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

Resource of the Month

Royal Marsden Manual Online

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

Please feel free to download our resource of the month poster and share with your team or within your department.

Royal Marsden Manual

New content

Royal Marsden have updated Chapter 15- Medicines Optimisation with new content on “Monoclonal Antibody Preparation and MAB risk assessment”.

Find all the information here or alternatively please click on the link on the homepage.

Remember you can access Royal Marsden Manual with your Open Athens account by signing in here: https://openathens.nice.org.uk/Auth/Login

Royal Marsden Manual

Update on accessing the resource

Further to our recent post about trouble accessing Royal Marsden Online, we can now confirm that this issue has been resolved. You can now access this resource by login in via their website here. Sorry for any inconveniences this has caused. If you have any further questions or queries about this resource, or any other electronic resources please contact the library services here.

Royal Marsden Access

Difficulties accessing the resource

We have been made aware that some members of the trust are having difficulty accessing Royal Marsden online. We are working towards getting this issue resolved and will inform you of updates when this issue has been rectified.

You can still access the latest materials, however you will need to login via Athens. Follow these simple steps:

  • Login to your Athens account here
  • Click on ‘My Resources’ (left hand side of the page)
  • Click on Wiley Royal Marsden Manual 10 (last on the list)
  • Search the content you were looking for

Royal Marsden Manual

Access to Royal Marsden Manual 10 via OpenAthens

We have recently been experiencing some difficulties getting access to this resource via OpenAthens but this issue has now been resolved. To access the manual log in to OpenAthens, go to the My Resources section and choose Wiley Royal Marsden Manual 10 (RMM10) from the list.

Please email the library team academic.library@lancashirecare.nhs.uk if you have any problems getting access.