Chapter 7: Clinical decision making

Web Link 1: Principles to inform decision-making. What do I need to know?

Description: Document outlining the four main principles – quality, equality, accountability and partnership. Serves to highlight the features which we believe are fundamental to the evolving role of nurses and nursing care in a modern health and social care system.

Web Link 2: The Knowledge Network

Description: The Knowledge Network is the national knowledge management platform for health and social care in Scotland and offers a single interface to search NHS Scotland’s national collection of electronic resources (e-journals, articles and e-books) provided by NHS Education for Scotland, along with all the local NHS Scotland library collections (primarily print books. From The Knowledge Network home page you can easily find Evidence summary services to support decisions at point of care

Web Link 3: NHS Education for Scotland

Description: A collection of resources and work based activities that can help you to: demonstrate your value; apply the latest evidence-based care; develop your role and maximise work-based learning.