Reflective Reading Club for Nurse Revalidation
Held once a month, the Reflective Reading Club will earn you a valuable 3 hours of credited CPD time that you can use towards the 35 hours of CPD that you need to revalidate. Our meetings take just 1.5 hours, so just ask your manager!
As part of our Noclor Programme, our Reflective Reading Club is now open to nurses from Whittington Health and NCL ICB/Primary care and all Noclor-partnered Trusts: CLCH, CNWL, ELFT, Kingston & Richmond, Tavistock & Portman, and West London!
This is how the Reflective Reading Club works:
- You let us know you are interested and tell us your preferred attendance date by emailing whl@nhs.net
- We send you a journal article and a small checklist of points to consider when reading it. Make notes as you read the paper - you do this in your own time and this earns you 1.5 hours CPD time
- We meet for the club online via Microsoft Teams and discuss the article in a small group, reflecting on points whilst working our way through the checklist. Any notes that you make on the checklist can be written up into a reflective piece and submitted into your portfolio as evidence of reflective activities – this earns you another 1.5 hours of CPD time.
- YOU GET A CERTIFICATE of participation and attendance! You can attend 2 sessions that will count for a total of 6 CPD hours!
The Reflective Reading Club dates for 2026 have been finalised and are listed below, including the time, and the title of the article to be discussed:
- Tuesday 27th January 11.30-13:00 -
“Nurses' strategies for overcoming barriers to fundamental nursing care in patients with COVID-19 caused by infection with the SARS-COV-2 virus: Results from the 'COVID-NURSE' survey” - Tuesday 17th February 10:00-11.30 -
“Supporting neurodiversity in diabetes care: a nursing perspective from the Royal College of Nursing” - Wednesday 11th March 10.30-12:00 -
“Threads of Practice: Enhanced Maternal and Child Health Nurses Working With Women Experiencing Family Violence” - Monday 27th April 12.30pm-2pm -
“Communication about sexual orientation and gender between clinicians, LGBT+ people facing serious illness and their significant others: a qualitative interview study of experiences, preferences and recommendations” - Thursday 14th May 10am-11.30am -
“Medications used in dementia: their management and the role of the community nurse” - Monday 15th June 10am-11.30am -
“Discussing Sexual Health During Diabetes Care, a Survey of UK Women - My Diabetes Nurse ‘Would Fall off Her Chair If I Mentioned It’” - Thursday 16th July 11.30am-1pm -
“Recognising and responding to bruising in children” - Thursday 20th Aug 10am-11.30am -
“The Role of Nurses Caring for Children Diagnosed with Sickle Cell Anemia and Their Families in a Hospital Setting: A Rapid Review of the Recent Literature” - Tuesday 8th September 1pm-2.30pm -
“Experiences of the diagnosis and management of tuberculosis: a focused ethnography of Somali patients and healthcare professionals in the UK” - Tuesday 13th October 10.30am-12pm -
“‘We've Taken on a More Advanced Clinical Role’: A Multimethod Study of Community Nurses' Extended Roles in Palliative Care” - Monday 23rd November 10am-11.30am -
“Family members’ experiences of supporting black and South Asian women with perinatal mental illness: a qualitative study in the UK” - Tuesday 15th December 10.30am-12pm -
“Understanding burnout in nurses: identification and coping strategies”
“I thoroughly enjoyed the session… I had been putting off revalidation but now I am keen to get started!”
Safeguarding children nurse advisor
“This has encouraged me to step out of my box and the effect is more awareness of ways in which to make a difference, even in a small way.”
Community Immunisation nurse
Contact Whittington Health Library at whl@nhs.net or 020 7288 3580 to join the club or find out more.
Last updated18 Dec 2025