Each month, your NHS Wales e-Library shines a spotlight on special times throughout the year – increasing awareness and promoting advocacy of health and wellbeing, important issues and interesting events.
It also gives us a great opportunity to share some of our fantastic resources to help support your evidence-based practice!
May events include:
05/05/2025
12/05/2025
#IMD2025 “Critical in Every Crisis”
05/05/2025
Articles on Pregnancy or Birth risks
NHS Wales LibrarySearch - midwif* AND humanit*
e-Journals:
Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
More e-Journals on Maternity and Midwifery
More e-Journals on Perinatal and neonatal
Brown, A. (2019) Why breastfeeding grief and trauma matter. London: Pinter & Martin.
Medford, J. et al. (2017) Oxford handbook of midwifery. 3rd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Stacey, G. and Westwood, G. (eds) (2022) Leadership for Nurses and Midwives. Elsevier
More e-Books Perinatal and Neonatal
BMJ Best Practice: Women’s Health Speciality
Paediatrics and adolescent medicine speciality
More specialities in BMJ Best Practice
ClinicalKey: Pregnancy
More specialities in Clinical Key
iRefer is a radiological investigation tool to support appropriate imaging investigations or interventions for patients, and provides practical guidance based on the best evidence available:
Suspected pregnancy of unknown location
Imaging as a part of screening in pregnancy
Intrauterine pregnancy of uncertain viability
Suspected pulmonary embolism (PE) in pregnancy
Royal Marsden Manual for Clinical Nursing and Cancer Procedures: Pregnancy
Available at: https://elh.nhs.wales/guidelines/guidelines-pages/royal-marsden-manual-of-clinical-nursing-procedures-10th-edition/
MedicinesComplete (Search in Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation or Search in BNF, or Search in BNFc) MedicinesComplete includes a variety of information and evidence relating to Drug Reference (search in Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference)
BMJ Learning Professional Skills
BMJ Learning Quality Improvement
BMJ Learning Pregnancy
BMJ Learning Babies
Nurses' Day 2025 | Royal College of Nursing
Wellbeing
https://www.icn.ch/news/icn-puts-wellbeing-nurses-centre-international-nurses-day-2025
For information about the Royal College of Nursing Wales’ Library service, please visit https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/About-us/Wales-Library
Catalogue Search: Nursing, leadership and quality
Catalogue Search: Nursing, preceptorship, mentoring and supervision
Catalogue Search: Nursing, challenges, retention and future
British Journal of Nursing ** see below for all Mark Allen titles available via the e-Library
International Journal of Nursing Studies
Nursing Standard * see below for all RCNi titles available
Articles on Wellbeing and Nursing
** Catalogue Search on all Mark Allen titles available from NHS Wales e-Library
*Catalogue Search on all RCNi titles available from the NHS Wales e-Library
Jasper, M. (2013) Beginning reflective practice. 2nd ed. Andover: Cengage Learning EMEA.
More e-Books: Nursing and wellbeing or mindfulness
More e-Books on Wellbeing and Nursing
More books on Leadership, preceptorship and supervision and Nursing
BMJ Best Practice Clinical topics on Psychological Distress or Burnout
Clinical Key Health Care Team (Clinical overviews)
The Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical and Cancer Nursing Procedures: Chapter 5, Communication, Psychological Wellbeing and Safeguarding in Lister, S.E., Hofland, J. and Grafton, H. (eds.) (2020) The Royal Marsden manual of clinical nursing procedures. 10th edn (Professional edn). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. Available at: https://elh.nhs.wales/guidelines/guidelines-pages/royal-marsden-manual-of-clinical-nursing-procedures-10th-edition/
MedicinesComplete:
MedicinesComplete (Search in Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation or Search in BNF, or Search in BNFc)
MedicinesComplete includes a variety of information and evidence relating to:
Drug Reference (search in Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference)
Drug Administration
MedicinesComplete Search: Nurse Prescribers’ advisory group
NEWT Guidelines:
NEWT Guidelines includes information on how to prepare solid dose formulations for administration via enteral feeding tubes, and how to solve problems such as tube blockage and enteral feed interactions
BMJ Learning Neurodiversity in Primary Care (3 courses)
BMJ Learning Communication Skills
BMJ Learning Professional Skills
BMJ Learning Quality Improvement
BMJ Learning Wellbeing
BMJ Learning Care of Older People (Nursing)
BMJ Learning: Public Health (Nursing)