Elsevier Clinical Skills
Developing outstanding clinical skills is crucial for all nurses and healthcare professionals and there are some great resources available to help.
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Elsevier Clinical Skills
Provides step-by-step video demonstrations on clinical skills for UK nurses plus information on equipment, checklists and self-tests. Useful for OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examinations) preparation.
Guidance, skills and models of practice
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Bates' Visual Guide
Contains clinical skills videos that present a step-by-step physical examination techniques. It is designed to help with preparing for OSCEs (Objective Structured Clinical Examinations).
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Clinical Skills.net
Provides illustrated step-by-step guidelines on clinical skills, covering: adult nursing, children’s nursing, midwifery, and moving & handling.
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Royal Marsden Hospital Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures
Evidence-based manual of clinical nursing procedures procuced by experts in all aspects of care.
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Dermatology: a handbook for medical students and junior doctors (PDF, 3.02 MB)Guidance from the British Association of Dermatology.
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Applying the Roper-Logan-Tierney Model in PracticeExplore the different dimensions of the model through case studies and exercises, aimed at enabling readers to find evidence to support nursing activities.
Manual handling resources
Discover more on moving & handling policy and techniques.