Royal College of Nursing (2025) Advanced level practice for ophthalmic nursing. London: RCN.

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Royal College of Nursing (2025) Eyes right: eye care insights for every health professional. London: RCN.

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Royal College of Nursing (2024) Eyes right: older people and driving. London: RCN.

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Cochrane Reviews: Eyes & vision

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MacEwan C, Davis A, and Chang L (2019) Ophthalmology GIRFT programme national specialty report.

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NHS England (no date) The ophthalmic common clinical competency framework - curriculum.

• 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 workforce calculator tool.

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RNIB: Eye care support pathway

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RNIB: Guiding a blind or partially sighted person

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RNIB: eye conditions

• 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.

Batterbury M (2019) Ophthalmology: an illustrated colour text. 4th edn. Edinburgh: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone.

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Attzs M and Sheth T (2024) Ophthalmology made easy. Banbury: Scion Publishing.

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Beaver H A and Lee A G (2019) Geriatric ophthalmology: a competency-based approach. AG: Springer International Publishing.

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Watkinson, S and Williamson, S N (2023) Ocular disease and sight loss: meeting psychosocial needs. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

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Denniston A K O and Murray P I (2018) Oxford handbook of ophthalmology. 4th edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Elliott D B (2021) Clinical procedures in primary eye care. 5th edn. (no place): Elsevier.

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Gault J (2022) Ophthalmology secrets. 5th edn. Philadelphia: Elsevier.

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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. 

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Liu C and Lee, H L (2020) Fundamentals in ophthalmic practice. Cham: Springer. 

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Marsden J (2017) Ophthalmic care. 2nd edn. Keswick: M & K Publishing.

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Salmon J F and Bowling B (2020) Kanski’s clinical ophthalmology: a systematic approach. 9th edn. Edinburgh: Elsevier.

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Shirodkar A and Williams G S (2019) Practical emergency ophthalmology handbook: an algorithm based approach to ophthalmic emergencies. Milton: Taylor & Francis.

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Waqar S (2021) Fundamentals of glaucoma: a guide for ophthalmic nurse practitioners, optometrists and orthoptists. New Jersey: World Scientific.

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Use these links to see details of books the RCN libraries hold on each topic.

• Ophthalmic nursing
• Ophthalmology

• Diabetes and eyecare
• Emergency eyecare
• Eyes and the workplace
• Glaucoma
• Screening for Visual Impairment
• Cataracts

Journals of interest for ophthalmic nursing services. Use these links to see details of availability.

• BMC Ophthalmology
• Community eye health
• Eurotimes
• Eye
• Eyes and Vision
• Eye News
• Journal of ophthalmology