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Beyond the borders: Education Forum 2013 conference report
Published: 12 June 2013
This year’s RCN international education conference Beyond the Borders addressed the theme of patient-centred nursing education and the relationship between academic liberation and professional expectations in the development of nursing students.
Editorial
Published: 10 June 2013
Welcome to the latest issue of Edlines, in which we bring you the news and views from Congress. This year was particularly interesting as we were treated to the usual wide perspectives and viewpoints from members and we also had Lord Willis giving his keynote speech following his chairing of the independent Commission on Nursing Education.
View from the Chair
Published: 10 June 2013
There are so many things to spur us into action at the moment in terms of nurse education but certainly, gauging from the mood at Congress, it seems that there is one issue in particular that is at the top of many people’s agenda when thinking of nurse education. How nursing students best learn to become effective professionals has been a preoccupation of the development of new curricula and it is also a debate which is contemporary at a number of levels.
We’re all in this together
Published: 10 June 2013
“It was a great privilege to chair the Commission on Nursing Education,” said Lord Willis in his keynote speech at Congress this year. “The vast majority of people I met, from community nurses, to nursing deans, to mentors, to students, were inspirational. They all had one goal - to improve patient outcomes." Lord Willis also said their ability to achieve that goal is so often thwarted by a health and social care system that operates in an ever-increasing number of silos. “The challenge post-Francis, and indeed post-Willis, is not to create yet more silos but to break down barriers and recognise that we are all in this together,” he said.
Are you born a nurse or made a nurse?
Published: 10 June 2013
The role of NHS values in selecting candidates for nursing. "You’re not born a nurse or made a nurse – it’s a combination of the two," said Pauline Walsh, Head of School of Nursing at Keele University, speaking at this Education Forum Congress event exploring NHS values, how nursing students are selected, and what factors make a good nurse. Pauline said that NHS values – which include working together, compassion, respect and dignity, are the appropriate values nurses should be demonstrating when looking after patients.
Equity for nurse mentors
Published: 10 June 2013
The Education Forum successfully proposed a Congress resolution which was debated in the main auditorium this year: "That this meeting of RCN Congress urges Council to lobby for all mentors to have protected time, as is standard across other professions".
RCN Education Forum International Conference and Exhibition 2013 - call for abstracts
Published: 24 April 2013
Opportunity for nurse educators to meet and discuss the development of nursing education globally
Willis Commission: Quality with compassion: the future of nurse education
Published: 24 April 2013
Launched on 5 November this report, Quality with Compassion: The Future of Nursing Education, was based on more than six months’ work and contains evidence from patients, academics, students and other experts.
Editorial
Published: 27 March 2013
Welcome to the first Edlines of 2013. Health care is under the spotlight this year more than ever before as we monitor and consider how the Health and Social Care Act is unfolding and affecting frontline care.
View from the Chair
Published: 26 March 2013
As we are forced to acknowledge the appalling failings outlined by the second, independent inquiry by Robert Francis QC into the failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, it is important to reflect for a moment about what this means for education in nursing. Carol Hall writes in a dark period for nursing and health care.