NMC documents: getting hold of them!

Our free, print copies of NMC documents seem to be flying off the shelves here in the library! Here are some links where students can print or save a copy of these important publications:

NMC Standards
NMC Guidance
Recordkeeping
Medicines Management
Archived publications

Please note that there are some documents which you can only access online: see this page for details.

Online book: The Psychology of emotions, feelings and thoughts

 

This online book is hosted by Connexions, a US-based site that promotes scholarly material under a free-use licence. The book concerns emotions, thoughts, and feelings, and discusses their relationship in an accessible way that will be suitable for newcomers to psychology. A freely downloadable Adobe PDF of the book is also provided. Take a look.

Picture warnings on tobacco products

This report on the consultation to introduce picture warnings on tobacco products outlines the main points arising from the responses received, and indicates where changes to the original proposals were made. It also covers themes that came out of the consultation that were not covered by specific questions.

Innovations Report: Social Sciences

Innovations report: social sciences is a scientific news service which reports on new interdisciplinary research in the social sciences. It provides short summaries of the findings of research conducted by social scientists, or research that relates to the social sciences. Sources are cited for each entry and contact web addresses are provided.

Thanks to Intute for adding this resource to their gateway.

The even more Open University

 

Open University has launched a website “OpenLearn”, allowing free access to many of its course materials. The University’s vision is for free online education to be available to all.

Worth a look to see what materials are there for your subject. Includes arts and history, business and management, education, health and lifestyle, science and nature, and society.

Eisai v The National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence (NICE)

 

A court case you might be interested to know about:

The plaintiff manufactures a drug called Donepezil (sold as Aricept) for the treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease. They sought to challenge in the High Court guidance from The National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence (NICE) which recommended the use of Donepezil in limited circumstances only.

Read the report here.

National framework for NHS continuing healthcare and NHS-funded nursing care

 

This document sets out guidance for health professionals on the principles and processess of the National Framework for Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care. Published in June 2007, this 38 page report by the Department of Health (DH) sets out responsibilities of health care bodies in ascertaining the eligibility of patients to receive NHS continuing health care or NHS-funded nursing care, and describes the concepts of continuing care for patients with long term health needs which have arisen as a result of disability or illness.

MIDIRS Student Zone

Midwifery students should take a look at the the new Student Zone webpage from MIDIRS, which covers study skills and professional issues, discussion forums and book reviews. It’s still being added to and tweaked so take a look regularly! Find it here.

Guidance on Confidentiality

 

An excellent document on handling confidential information from the Health Professions Council, covering key principles of confidentiality. One to pass on to your health, social care and psychology students!

Resources for the midwives – infant feeding

 

A couple of resources for the midwives…

A report produced by the National Childbirth Trust, Save the Children and UNICEF is calling for a complete ban on advertising formula milk. The organisations say marketing baby formula milk undermines those who want to breastfeed and leaves many parents confused about how to feed their baby. Click here!

And also…

The Information Centre is a special health authority that collects statistics on health and social care for the NHS and social services. Their statistics and data collections page for infant feeding brings together government statistics for feeding practices for infants in the first nine months of life, plus information on smoking and drinking by mothers, for England and Wales. Click here!