Skip to main content

Evidence for Nurses

 Nurses working in the NHS can access a range of resources to help them find the most up-to-date evidence. 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

Key Resources for Nurses

Oxford Medicine Online for Nurses: Get essential texts to support nursing practice across a wide range of specialties

Royal Marsden Manual Online for Nurses: use this easy to read format for advice and support about nursing procedures

Journals for Nurses: find out what key nursing journals you can access

Stay up-to-date with the latest nursing journals published by the RCN: register for updates on research and professional development sent straight to your inbox

For links to more resources please see our NHS Resources web page.

How to log in to get full-text access

You will need to log in using your NHS OpenAthens username to access full-text. You can:

More help

Contact the eResources Librarian if you need any help accessing online resources.

Want to learn more about how to search for the evidence? Check our training opportunities.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Information skills to support literature searching

As healthcare workers you make decisions based on evidence. Whether you are presenting arguments in an assignment, discussing changing practice, researching a new intervention or deciding on the best patient care, you need the best evidence to help you. To find the best evidence you need to use your information skills, so that you can gather the best information as efficiently and effectively as possible. Developing a literature search plan will remind you of the steps to follow and help you to be systematic in your searching. We can help you to develop your skills and set you on the right path to completing your literature search, to find the information you need. Try these tutorials to get started with literature searching: 1. Complete our tutorial Introduction to Literature Searching . Follow these steps to start your literature search plan. Print out your completed plan at the end. 2. Save a template Search Plan . Use this plan to prompt you to think about your search t...

V is for visit us

Why not come along and visit us? We are located on the ground floor, in the Clinical Education Centre, at the Royal Stoke University Hospital. Here are some instructions on how to get here, along with a Google Street map view. We’re in the really distinctive round building you can see from the A34. The library is usually a quiet place to study or catch up on some paperwork. You can use the silent study room if you need. We also have NHS and Keele networked computers, as well as provision for photocopying, scanning and printing. More Help Please check our opening hours before you visit Contact the Health Library here if you need to.