Resources

Publications

Below is a brief selection of publications by ADNE members or of pertinence to District Nursing. Please click on the publication title for a link to the publisher's website for more information about the text. These texts may be purchased through the normal retailers. If you are a student, it is worth checking with your library and requesting the publication if it is not yet available.


  • Fundamental Aspects of Long-term Conditions
    (Quay Books)

    McVeigh H (2010)

    This text provides structured approaches to LTC care. The start of each chapter indicates what the student can expect to learn from each topic. This book is aimed at student nurses wishing to gain insight into the management of long term conditions.

    Author information: Helen McVeigh is Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, De Montfort University, Leicester

  • Developing Advanced Skills in Practice Teaching
    (Palgrave Macmillan)

    Smith A, McAskill H and Jack K (editors) (2008)

    This engaging book is written for Practice Teachers who need to educate and assess students at advanced level in the practice setting. Including contributions from a range of healthcare workers it provides:

    Guidance on how to create a dynamic and effective experience for the learner

    Support for the teacher, including how to deal with failure and cope with challenging students

    Advice to help readers build their self-awareness and reflect on their role.

  • Compassion and Caring in Nursing
    (Radcliffe Publishing)

    Chambers C and Ryder E (2009)

    This user-friendly book adopts a patient-centred approach to care.

    The challenging theories are grounded in practical applications, encouraging readers to recognise opportunities for change in their daily practice.

  • Nursing in the Community : An Essential guide to practice
    (Arnold)

    Chilton, S, Melling K, Drew, D and Claridge A (2004)

    Nursing in the Community: an essential guide to practice is an introductory textbook for professionals and students who have chosen a career in community health care nursing. The book gives comprehensive coverage of the full range of professional issues, such as personal safety and the environment, in addition to public health, health promotion and family health nursing.

    This user-friendly text provides clear guidelines on how to transfer skills from the hospital/ acute setting to the community. In addition, it fully reflects current government health, social policy, the implications for the roles and responsibilities of the community health care nurse, and aims to support a trainee/new practitioner to function safely and effectively in the full range of community settings.

  • Community Health Care Nursing (3rd Edition)
    (Wiley-Blackwell)

    Sine D, Saunders M, Forbes-Burford J (2009)

    Community Health Care Nursing has become established as an essential source of reference for all those working in the primary care and community health care domain. The Fourth Edition of this successful text focuses on new emergent agendas which affect primary care and public health education and service delivery/improvement.

    Comprehensive and accessible, this well established text draws on a wide range of subject experts all aiming for excellence in service delivery, to produce a resource that addresses the key aspects of community health delivery reflecting the reality of the new community/primary care agenda in the United Kingdom.

  • 2020 VISION: Focusing on the Future of District Nursing
    (QNI)

    QNI (2009)

    This major new report was launched at a meeting of district nurses at Bingfield Primary Care Centre in Islington on 13 January 2009.

    2020 Vision looks back at the heritage of the past 150 years of district nursing and offers insights and predictions about the future of district nursing over the next decade to 2020.

  • Vision and Values: a call for action on community nursing
    (QNI)

    QNI (2006)

    2020 Vision grew out of work around another major QNI report, ‘Vision and Values’