Ophthalmic Nursing Services
Use this guide to find information resources about ophthalmic nursing services and caring for patients with eye disorders including books, reports and journal articles.
Last updated:
08/02/2024
Key Resources
Royal College of Nursing (2022) Eyes right: helping non-ophthalmic health care professionals deliver quality care safely. Revised edition. London: RCN.
Royal College of Nursing (2021) Eyes right: older people and driving. RCN: London.
NHS England (no date) The ophthalmic common clinical competency framework - curriculum.
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Standards and guidance for the knowledge and skills required for non-medical eye healthcare professionals to deliver patient care. The RCN was a contributor to this framework.
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Royal College of Ophthalmologists (2021) Cataract services and workforce calculator tool.
RNIB: eye disorders
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Information aimed at the public.
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We would like to thank the RCN Ophthalmic Nursing member community for their input into the development of this subject guide.
Books
Batterbury M (2019) Ophthalmology: an illustrated colour text. 4th edn. Edinburgh: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone.
Beaver H A and Lee A G (2019) Geriatric ophthalmology: a competency-based approach. AG: Springer International Publishing.
Denniston A K O and Murray P I (2018) Oxford handbook of ophthalmology. 4th edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Elliott D B (2021) Clinical procedures in primary eye care. 5th edn. (no place): Elsevier.
Gault J (2022) Ophthalmology secrets. 5th edn. Philadelphia: Elsevier.
Koplin R S, Wu E I, Ritterband, D C and Seedor J A (2020) The scrub's bible: how to assist at cataract and corneal surgery with a primer on the anatomy of the human eye and self assessment. 2nd edn. New York: Springer.
Liu C and Lee, H L (2020) Fundamentals in ophthalmic practice. Cham: Springer.
Marsden J (2017) Ophthalmic care. 2nd edn. Keswick: M & K Publishing.
Salmon J F and Bowling B (2020) Kanski’s clinical ophthalmology: a systematic approach. 9th edn. Edinburgh: Elsevier.
Shirodkar A and Williams G S (2019) Practical emergency ophthalmology handbook: an algorithm based approach to ophthalmic emergencies. Milton: Taylor & Francis.
Waqar S (2021) Fundamentals of glaucoma: a guide for ophthalmic nurse practitioners, optometrists and orthoptists. New Jersey: World Scientific.
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