Recent Publications

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

• 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 written by Dr Crystal Oldman CBE and contributions by a number of other Queen’s Nurses. A 20% discount is available for QNs and QNI network members.
• 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 the QNI’s 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, offering an assessment of how community nursing has evolved under successive governments an considers how lessons learnt from the past can inform the organisation of 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 E 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 .