Great Nurses Go By The Book And Now They Can Also Go Online!

Online, September 7, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Imagine being able to access all the information you need about nursing procedures at the click of a button by using a fully searchable online manual? Nursing students and qualified nurses can now do just that, thanks to the launch of the online version of the eighth edition of The Royal Marsden Hospital Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures.

The Online Manual has been specially created for hospitals and schools of nursing and includes the full content of the eighth edition of the Professional Manual, which was launched in July 2011 and is based on the new patient's journey format.

It also includes extra features and functionality for informing clinical skills practice within a hospital or university and for managing patient care across multiple specialities and sites. For example, the new Online Manual makes it easy for hospitals and teaching institutions to add multiple comments and link to their own local policies, assessment forms and clinical guidelines.

Hospitals and teaching institutions can purchase a one or three-year licence for the online version of the Professional Manual, which has been a gold standard text for nurses in the UK and abroad for over 20 years.

The benefits of the online version include:

For nurses
• Find clinical procedure guidelines effortlessly online without having to consult multiple websites
• View all the nursing procedures used in the hospital simultaneously
• Access clinical guidelines at hospital, at home or on the move
• Clearly understand the hospital's policy and requirements for each clinical skill
• Access relevant hospital policy and forms for each procedure at the click of a button
• Print out individual procedures to refer to.

For hospitals
• Clarify local policy and practice by annotating procedure guidelines
• Ensure staff have ready access to all the supporting information they need in order to practice clinical skills accountably and in line with hospital policy
• Respond quickly and effectively to changes in clinical practice, by updating existing guidelines or adding extra guidelines
• Enable staff to practice accountably, by authenticating any changes in practice and retaining a clear audit trail of when procedures are approved.

For nursing lecturers and students
• Enable nursing students to have fast, efficient online access to the full Manual wherever suits them
• Improve students' understanding of clinical skills by annotating individual guidelines with additional information they need to know
• Clarify university policy and practice on clinical placements, by annotating procedures guidelines and adding supporting information to reflect departmental practice
• Help students during their clinical placements, by providing instant access to additional information for each clinical skill by uploading relevant policy documents, forms and useful web-links
• Enable students to rapidly locate the latest supporting evidence for nursing procedures, by searching and linking to the original references
• Print out individual procedures to refer to.

For further details of the online manual, developed with technology partner Semantico, and to see the online demo visit: http://www.royalmarsdenmanual.com/view/online.html

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For more information please contact
Annette Whibley, Wizard Communications
0121 445 5100/ 07941 465757 (UK)
[email protected]

Notes to editors

• The Royal Marsden Hospital Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures. Eighth Edition. Online version (September 2011). http://www.royalmarsdenmanual.com/view/online.html

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