Nursing Revalidation Knowledge Hub

​Library books & e-books

The Library has a wide range of books and e-books covering all aspects of nursing, mentorship, revalidation, leadership, coaching, and much more. All East Cheshire NHS Trust staff and students on placement are able to join the library and borrow books. If you are unsure where to start please speak to a member of library staff and we will be happy to help you.

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Royal Marsden Manual

The Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures is available to borrow from the library and also available as an e-book. Access from hospital computers via the Start Menu on the PC and scroll down the list of programs to the Royal Marsden. Login with an NHS Athens username and password.​

Access Royal Marsden

UpToDate

UpToDate is an evidence-based decision support tool which is available to all Trust staff. It includes over 11,000 clinical topics, drug information, practice-changing updates and much more. Access from work by clicking the UpToDate link in the Start Menu, or from anywhere with a personal login or NHS Athens. More information is available here.

Access UpToDate

Keep up-to-date

KnowledgeShare is our targeted current awareness service. Alerts are emailed out every fortnight. Your KnowledgeShare profile can be created to be as broad or specific as you need, and can be updated if your interests change.   It can include non-clinical topics such as leadership, management, coaching, and research, as well as clinical conditions.

Register for KnowledgeShare

Web resources

• ​NMC Revalidation
• NMC Revalidation: completed forms and templates
• RCN: Learning resources
• RCN: Revalidaton
• NMC: The Code of professional standards
• ​Revalidation guide (Chelsea and Westminster)

Athens

​A lot of resources are only available to subscribers. Athens is the key to unlocking access. Athens accounts are free to set up and use, click the button below to set yours up today!
Login to Athens - you can update your details and link directly to resources.

Register for an Athens account

​Evidence resources

• NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries
• NICE Guidance
• ​BMJ Best Practice ​ [NHS ATHENS]
• Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews
• Evidently Cochrane: evidence for everyday nursing
• Guidelines for nurses​​

Revalidation books available in the Library

Click here to access the NHS Knowledge & Library Hub!

​Social media

• RCN @theRCN
• NMC @NMCnews  -  ​​NMC Revalidation twitter chats​
• Guidelines for Nurses @G4N_mgp
• We Nurses @WeNurses

CPD

• RCN Learn: e-learning from the RCN
• ​BMJ Learning: CPD e-learning specifically for nurses
• eLearning modules (eLearning for Health)
• eLearning (SCIE, free modules)

Guides

Organisations

• Nursing and Midwifery Council
• Royal College of Nursing

​Videos

• NMC videos on a variety of topics, including revalidation
• RCM revalidation video
• Revalidation videos on YouTube