Further learning

The following list of links will take you to extended learning about this topic. Please note that some of the links will take you to information external to the RCN website.

Learning Zone

• Dignity in health care
• Making sense of patient safety
• Sexual health for non-experts

RCN Website

• Infection prevention and control
• Principles of nursing practice

Open University

• Caring in hospitals (free OpenLearn module)
• Diversity and difference in communication (free OpenLearn module)
• Factors that influence health: (free OpenLearn module)
• Understanding Health (Y158 - Openings module - enquire about fee discounts available to RCN members)
• Introduction to health and social care (K101 - enquire about fee discounts available to RCN members)
• Communication in health and social care (K309 - undergraduate module, enquire about fee discounts available to RCN members)
• Promoting public health: skills, perspectives and practice (K311 - undergraduate module, enquire about fee discounts available to RCN members)

 Other sites

• eHIV-STI - eLearning for Healthcare site - free for NHS staff
• Training courses for health workers (provided by the Terrence Higgins Trust)