Recent Publications

On this page we have brought together some general reading about community nursing and related subjects.

• Safe Vaccine Administration 
  Editors: Helen Donovan QN and Helen Bedford. 1st Edition, London: Springer, 2025
  Each chapter is written by nurses and midwives expert in immunisation and vaccine administration, with contributions from physicians, legal and pharmacy professionals.
• A Textbook of Community Nursing – 3rd Edition – Sue Chilton – Heather
  CHILTON, S. and BAIN, H., eds., 2025. The textbook of community nursing. 3^rd ed. London: Routledge.
  This new edition has a foreword by Dr Crystal Oldman CBE and contributions by a number of Queen’s Nurses.
• A Clinician’s Survival Guide to District Nursing
  1^st Edition – October 3, 2024. Editors: Neesha Oozageer Gunowa, Michelle McBride
  Written by specialists in community nursing, this indispensable new book is ideal for students exploring district nursing as a career option, as well as nurses transitioning to a district nursing team role.
• District Nursing at a Glance (2022). With 72 chapters written by Queen’s Nurses, edited by Matthew Bradby. 

• Community Nursing Services in England (2023)
  Donna Bramwell, Kath Checkland, Jolanta Shields, Pauline Allen.
  This book gives a historical account of the ways in which community nursing services have been shaped by policy changes and how lessons learnt from the past can inform current services.
• Applying complexity science in promoting community and population health (2022)
  Lake, D.,  Kinnair, D., Oldman, C., Wang, K., Yamaguchi, K., & Wei, H.
  A chapter in  Visionary Leadership in Healthcare: Excellence in Practice, Policy, and Ethics.
  H. Wei & S. Horton-Deutsch, Indianapolis, IN: Sigma Theta Tau International. 2022 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year, 1st Place, Management and Leadership category.  

• A History of The Queen’s Nursing Institute (1987, republished 2024). By Monica Baly with a new Foreword.
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If you know of a useful recent publication that we could include here, please email us: mail@qni.org.uk .