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NHS Resources: Royal Marsden Manual

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Resource of the Month

The 10th edition of The Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical and Cancer Nursing Procedures – Online

Evidence-based clinical skills procedures related to essential aspects of a person’s care, based on the latest research findings and advice from clinical experts. 

(OUH Resource of the Month, January 2023)

Access

From an OUH Trust PC or Other Authorised Device or Network 

  • Go to the OUH intranet homepage and click on the link to the Royal Marsden Manual. You will find this under the list of clinical resources on the right-hand side of the page.  


From Your Personal Device or Offsite 

Content

The Royal Marsden Manual contains over 350 detailed, evidence-based procedures across 28 chapters.

 

Table of Contents

1 The context of nursing

 

Part One: Managing the patient journey
2 Admissions and assessment
3 Discharge care and planning
4 Infection prevention and control

 

Part Two: Supporting patients with human functioning
5 Communication, psychological wellbeing and safeguarding
6 Elimination
7 Moving and positioning
8 Nutrition and fluid balance
9 Patient comfort and supporting personal hygiene
10 Pain assessment and management
11 Symptom control and care towards the end of life
12 Respiratory care, CPR and blood transfusion

 

Part Three: Supporting patients through the diagnostic process
13 Diagnostic tests
14 Observations

 

Part Four: Supporting patients through treatment
15 Medicines optimization: ensuring quality and safety
16 Perioperative care
17 Vascular access devices: insertion and management
18 Wound management

 

Part Five: Looking after ourselves so we can support patients
19 Self‐care and wellbeing

 

Part Six: Cancer Nursing
20 Diagnostic investigations
21 Haematological procedures
22 Cancer pain assessment and management
23 Administration of systemic anticancer therapies
24 Radionuclide therapy
25 Wound management
26 Acute oncology
27 Living with and beyond cancer
28 End of life care

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Book cover: The Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures

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