Clinical governance - updates

We are updating pages within this Clinical Governance online resource on a regular basis but we also offer a number of other ways in which you can keep up-to-date and find out about further resources:

You can register for the Clinical Governance e-Bulletin which we issue on a fortnightly basis and which uses themes similar to those within the online resource to capture news and describe new resources and initiatives. Sign up for the e-Bulletin
We will also be adding the latest e-Bulletin to this page as a word document along with some of the earlier Bulletins
Increasingly we will be focusing our updating activities via this page, and in particular using the Delicious social bookmarking tool - see below for further details.

Latest bulletin

e-Bulletin 25 February 2010 (Word 170KB)

Bulletin archive

Copies of recent e-Bulletins are also made available here to form a useful archive of resources and activities in the clinical governance themes over the preceding months:

Delicious: Clinical governance - Royal College of Nursing's bookmarks

We are now experimenting with the social bookmarking tool Delicious which can help you to store and share online resources. Currently we are bookmarking a selection of the resources that appear in the clinical governance e-Bulletin but we aim to expand on this. Have a look at the RCN's clinical governance bookmarks at http://delicious.com/clinicalgovernance.

We are updating regularly so please visit often.

Getting the most out of the Delicious RCN bookmarks

All bookmarked resources in Delicious are tagged (assigned subject keywords). The top 10 tags are always displayed on the right hand side of the page. There is also a link to all the tags used which is arranged alphabetically
We assign all resources that we bookmark one or more tags which reflect the section headings within the e-Bulletin - these headings are: evidence-based-practice; patient-focus; patient-safety; quality-improvement; research; staff-focus (note that we use hyphens for tags of more than one word)
We then add further tags which reflect the content of the resource and we include a country heading to identify a resource specific to one of the UK countries, and occasionally countries outside of the UK such as the USA. Also any resources specific to the RCN are tagged with that abbreviation
Once you have selected a tag you can combine it with further tags from the list of related tags on the right of the page or type another keyword in the tag bar at the top. Alternatively you can enter all the tags you want to combine by typing them into the 'type a tag' box at the top of the Clinical Governance Bookmark's homepage. Make sure each tag is separated by a space e.g. staff-focus patient-safety Scotland.

RCN e-library: Fast (frequently asked selected topics)

Fast topics provide 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.

You will require your RCN membership number to access Fast then 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 want a more comprehensive search you may also need to search on other databases.

Visit Fast via the RCN e-library (You will find Fast in the left hand menu).