Web Link 1: Royal College of Nursing

Description: The Royal College of Nursing is the world’s largest nursing union and professional body, representing more than 435,000 nurses, student nurses, midwives and health care assistants in the UK and internationally.

Web Link 2: Royal College of Nursing

Description: Provides an outline summary of the principles of nursing practice, describing what everyone, from nursing staff to patients, can expect from nursing. You can also find out how you can use the principles to inform your nursing practice (engaging with The Principles of Nursing Practice-Guided Reflection for Nursing Students workbook).

Web Link 3: Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, Northern Ireland

Description: Information on policy, guidance and publications for NHS and social care professionals in Northern Ireland (Chief Nursing Officer’s website)

Web Link 4: Google Scholar

Description: Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for academic literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organisations.

Web Link 5: Nursing and Midwifery Council

Description: UK nursing and midwifery regulatory body website

Web Link 6: Scottish government

Description: For information on policy, guidance and publications for NHS and social care professionals in Scotland visit the Scottish government website

Web Link 7: Welsh Assembly

Description: For information on policy, guidance and publications for NHS and social care professionals in Wales.

Web Link 8:  Compassion Fatigue Assessment Tool

Description: Focuses on professional quality of life

Web Link 9: NHS Education for Scotland: The Knowledge Network

Description: Provides comprehensive access to a wealth of resources on all aspects of health and social care.