Articles, booklets and guides

Administration of depot and long-acting antipsychotic injections

This guide has been developed to encourage good practice in the administration of these types of injection, with the emphasis on partnership between healthcare professionals and service users.

Burnout - a spiritual crisis

Burnout and stress are often found close together - burnout being presumed to flow from an extreme experience of stress. This guide offers a broader perspective, developed from work at the Sacred Space Foundation, a charity based in the north of England for people suffering from the extremes of stress and burnout.

Caring for Older People in Acute Care Settings (Interactive)

A free interactive version of this guide is available which features embedded video content. You can turn pages and zoom in and out in the same way as with our digital editions. (Opens in new window.)

Caring for Older People in Acute Care Settings

At a time when the care of older people in homes and hospitals has been under scrutiny, new guidelines have been published to support and guide the practice of individual nurses working in acute settings.

A guide to cultural and spiritual awareness

Given the immense diversity between different cultures and religions, this guide can only offer general useful advice.

Health care assistants and assistant practitioners: Delegation and Accountability guide

The purpose of this guide is to address some of the key issues regarding the delegation of tasks to health care assistants, and to offer practical guidance on a number of topics, including training, supervision, liability, accountability and responsibility.

Living Well With Dementia in a Care Home

This essential guide highlights key issues from the National Dementia Strategy for care homes and implications for providers and managers of care home services. Information is drawn from the strategy document and page numbers are referenced.

Management of patients with wet age-related macular degeneration

This guide discusses the requirements of a patient care pathway that reflects best practice, and offers practical advice for general and ophthalmic nurses in light of NICE and SMC guidance for the treatment of wet AMD.

Mental health needs of older people (Let’s respect)

At any one time, older people occupy up to two thirds of NHS beds. As many as 60 per cent of them will have mental health needs - mainly dementia, delirium and depression. This guide gives a brief overview of the signs and symptoms, and explains how best to care for older people with these conditions.

Nutrition and older people

Nutrition has made headlines in the national media and the nursing press in recent years. Stories have emerged of hungry patients, a lack of support with eating and drinking, and patients being ignored. Most of these stories relate to older people.

Spirit of Nursing Conference

Addressing patients' spiritual needs is recognised as an integral part of nursing care. But exactly how is that translated in the day-to-day hurly burly of health care and what are the implications for nurses?

Urinary continence management in older people

This guide is designed for professionals dealing with older people who have bladder problems. It suggests up-to-date, evidence based, practical management strategies.

Vulnerable adults

In recent years the media has put child abuse under the spotlight with high-profile cases of neglect by carers. It is an issue that evokes great public concern. We hear less about the abuse of vulnerable adults and, as a society, are not comfortable with acknowledging that it exists. This guide aims to assist you in understanding your responsibilities in safeguarding vulnerable adults.