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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.
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- 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. - 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. - 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: - 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. - 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). - 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.