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.


  • A Textbook of Community Nursing
    (Hodder Arnold)

    Heather Bain, Sue Chilton, Ann Clarridge and Karen Melling (2012)

    This Textbook of Community Nursing has been Edited by and primarily written by ADNE members. The Publisher’s website states this textbook is:

    is a comprehensive and evidence-based introduction covering the full range of professional issues, including community nursing roles, personal safety, public health and health promotion. This is an essential text for all pre-registration nursing students, students on specialist community nursing courses and qualified nurses entering community practice for the first time.

    A comprehensive and evidence-based introduction to community nursing
    Practical, evidence based, user-friendly and accessible
    Completely up to date with recent changes in nursing practice and education
    Learning objectives, exercises and activities to test understanding, promote reflective practice and encourage further reading

    Reviews:
    “Any nurse in the community, or contemplating a move into community-based nursing, would be well-advised to study this book. It maps the territory, explores the professional requirements, and shares the wisdom and learning of expert practitioners ... It will help the community novice to chart a safe course across some of the most exciting, challenging and rewarding waters in a nursing career.”
    Rosemary Cook CBE, Director, Queens Nursing Institute

  • 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.

    News: The Author’s have penned a follow-up to this text that is due to be released in April 2012. It is entitled:

    “Excellence in Compassionate Nursing Care: Leading the Change”

  • 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’

  • The Nightingale Shore Murder
    (Spire Publishing)

    Rosemary Cook (2011)

    An interesting read by Rosemary Cook of the QNI. Based on information uncovered in the QNI archives. Amazon states:

    Who killed Florence Nightingale Shore in 1920, and got away with murder? Miss Shore was a nurse, like her god-mother Florence Nightingale, and had been decorated for her service in South Africa and in France. She had come through two wars and the deadly global flu pandemic unscathed. But on a dark and rainy January afternoon, she was bludgeoned to death in a carriage on the Brighton line. Scotland Yard could not solve the crime, even with the help of famous criminal pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury. But now there are new suspects, and a shocking new theory about the murderer. This is a story of many heroic and stalwart women: pioneering Queen’s Nurses, fearless travellers and campaigners, loyal friends, feisty servants, and generous, charitable ladies. Between them they tell the story of a tragic Edwardian murder mystery. But has the murderer fi nally been uncovered?

  • Nursing People at Home: The issues, the stories, the actions
    (QNI)

    The Queen's Nursing Institute (2011)

    On 21 November 2011, the QNI launched its major campaign report, ‘Nursing People at Home: the issues, the stories, the actions’. The report is the result of talking to patients and nurses about their own experiences of giving and receiving care in the home.

  • Textbook of Non-medical Prescribing
    (Wiley)

    Dilyse Nuttall, Jane Rutt-Howard (2012)

    A new publication related to Non-medical prescribing. ADNE member Val Laurenson has written a chapter entitled: “Factors Influencing Prescribing”

    The Publisher’s description states:
    The Textbook of Non-medical Prescribing addresses all the key issues relevant to non-medical prescribing, bringing together essential knowledge, key issues, and skills in a single text.
    This accessible, engaging and comprehensive resource explores: the history of non-medical prescribing; prescribing in context; ethical, legal and professional issues in relation to prescribing practice; factors influencing prescribing; effective consultations; essential pharmacology; the role of the multi-disciplinary team; clinical skills; prescribing for specific groups; and the future of nurse prescribing. With case studies throughout, The Textbook of Non-medical Prescribing will be essential reading for all students on non-medical prescribing courses. It will also be of use to qualified health professionals, be they prescribers themselves or interested in the concepts of non-medical prescribing.

  • EXCELLENCE IN COMPASSIONATE NURSING CARE - leading the change
    (Radcliffe-Oxford)

    Claire Chambers and Elaine Ryder (2012)

    This important follow up to “Compassion and Caring in Nursing” is co-authored by ADNE member Elaine Ryder. As stated on the publisher’s pages:

    “We are passionately interested in the importance of nursing values and believe that excellence in compassionate nursing care lies at the heart of nursing practice and that leadership is key to making this happen. Every nurse, whatever their position and role, has a vital leadership role to play in ensuring excellent care remains at the heart of nursing practice.”

    Highly committed nurses often feel disillusioned, disempowered and angry when they are faced with negative media reports about poor standards of care. They are genuinely concerned, and want to address issues, when patients and clients feel they are not being cared for with compassion. However, complex and under-resourced healthcare environments pose many challenges.

    Developing ideas and initiatives from the highly successful Compassion and Caring in Nursing, in this new book Claire Chambers and Elaine Ryder focus on these potential difficulties and offers practitioners a chance to build on their current knowledge and experience, and consider ways to take the lead and act as catalysts for change.

  • Working with Adults at Risk from Harm
    (McGraw-Hill, Open University Press)

    Margaret Greenfields, Roger Dalrymple, Agnes Fanning (2012)

    This book co-authored by ADNE member Agnes Fanning is an important txt for anyone working with vulnerable adults. The publisher site states:

    “This comprehensive book uniquely acknowledges the overlap between different states of adult vulnerability within a range of health, social care and community contexts. The book looks beyond social work practice and legislative focus to examine the categories of `at risk’ and `vulnerable adults’. These include often forgotten groups such as homeless people, prisoners and migrant workers.”

    Through a range of practical examples, the book illustrates how professionals can usefully and effectively intervene to lessen the chance of a member of an excluded community becoming at greater `risk’ of further vulnerability. The book includes:
    Explanations of core themes and implications for a range of professionals and service providers with a practical and accessible focus
    Case studies and practice examples from work with vulnerable groups
    Illustrative examples of how different states of vulnerability are frequently contingent upon one another

  • The Handbook for Advanced Primary Care Nurses
    (McGraw-Hill)

    Rebecca Neno, Debby Price (2008)

    This textbook for Primary Care nurses has a chapter on ‘non-medical prescribing’ written by ADNE member Virginia Radcliffe. The Publishers page states:

    “This important new handbook for Primary Care Nurses is designed to assist senior nurses in developing the understanding and skills required to be effective at both strategic and operational levels. As well as exploring the context of advanced primary care practice, the book provides the tools needed for enhancing care delivery within both primary care and community settings.”

    A Handbook for Advanced Primary Care Nurses is an accessible guide to working strategically in primary care. It offers practical support across a range of core areas, including:
    Case finding and case management
    Mentorship
    Leadership and management
    Needs assessment
    Interprofessional working
    Prescribing

  • Preventing Mental Ill-Health - Informing public health planning and mental health practice
    (Routledge)

    Jennifer Newton

    This interesting publication is recommended by one of the ADNE members. The publishers state:

    Is there any evidence that we can reduce the incidence of mental ill health? Is it possible to prevent recurrence of mental ill health?

    Aspirations to achieve both these goals have featured in mental health policy and practice for over 100 years. This comprehensive and accessible book draws on research on the development and persistence of behavioural problems in childhood, adult depression and schizophrenia. The association between social disadvantage and mental ill health, as well as the need for preventive care to start from conception and the crucial importance of maternal mental health, are discussed.

    To Be Published 8th October 2012