Further resources
Clinical governance e-Bulletin
The clinical governance e-Bulletin will keep you up to date with clinical governance news, developments, publications and events. Emailed on a fortnightly basis it is organised around key themes such as patient safety, quality improvement tools and techniques, patient focus, and eHealth.
Register to receive this fortnightly e-Bulletin.
You can look at some recent issues and find out about other updating tools in updates.
Abbreviations
This listing covers the standard abbreviations for government bodies, organisations and commonly used terms in the clinical governance field. View abbreviations.
Glossary
This listing provides definitions of selected terms from authoritative sources linking to actual documents where possible. View glossary.
RCN library services and archives: e-library
You require an RCN membership number to access these resources.
The e-library provides more than 700 full text journals and more than 400 e-books and a range of databases.
Also available is Fast (frequently asked selected topics). Fast provides a useful and fast way of finding recent information on a topic as well as finding references to earlier material. One of the topics included is clinical governance and references are from 2006 onwards. Fast also includes a range of other topics relevant to clinical governance.
Click on the topic to execute an immediate, up-to-date search of journal articles from British Nursing Index. Some references include links to the online article, however, if an article is not available electronically a paper copy can be requested through the RCN Library postal photocopying service. Bear in mind that if you require a more comprehensive search you may also need to search on other databases.
Visit Fast via the RCN e-library (you will see the link to Fast in the left hand menu).