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NMC Consultation on pre-registration training
Published: 03 February 2010
NMC consultation on pre-registration training
New palliative care e-learning programme launched
Published: 15 January 2010
e-ELCA (End of Life Care for All) is a programme of around 50 highly-interactive learning sessions available for care staff, nurses and doctors on palliative care.
Welcome from Penny Hilton, your Edlines Editor!
Published: 03 December 2009
This year has proved to be a challenging and pivotal one for all of us involved in nursing education and training, be it in schools, FE colleges, higher education, practice, pre-registration or learning beyond registration - and I am sure we are all looking forward to a well earned break.
RCN Education Adviser Betty Kershaw surveys the national agenda
Published: 03 December 2009
It has been a really busy few months for all of us, not least for many of our members who have been struggling with the start of a new academic year and yet another increase in student numbers. At a national level the issues raised in 2009 are now moving forward to the next stage.
Let’s raise awareness of ME/CFS!
Published: 03 December 2009
We’ve come a long way from the days when this debilitating disease was routinely dismissed as “yuppie flu”, but how much do you really know about myalgic encephalomyletis/chronic fatigue syndrome?
Time to take a proactive approach to recruitment among FE colleges and schools
Published: 03 December 2009
Schools and college staff from throughout the northwest of England are being invited along to meet admissions tutors and other academic staff from the University of Manchester in a new initiative. It’s all about matching qualified students to quality courses, says Recruitment Officer Joanne Kerr, a member of the RCN Education Forum Steering Group.
Join the think tank on transition to community services ... your opinion matters!
Published: 03 December 2009
Attention nurse lecturers, practice educators and commissioners from all fields of practice. The RCN invites you to participate in a workshop aimed at exploring the learning needs of staff currently employed in acute trusts, but who may be expected to move into the community as Transforming community services (DH, 2008) progresses from policy to implementation.
Frontline nursing in the Anglo-Zulu War
Published: 03 December 2009
Florence Nightingale was a hard act to follow, but the second nurse to win the prestigious Royal Red Cross was a class act in her own right. Louise Evans, a nurse herself, remembers her remarkable great grandmother, Sister Janet Wells.
Involved in education and training of HCAs?
Published: 03 December 2009
The RCN provides lots of resources and support for health care assistants including conferences and easily accessible online materials.
Core standards for assistant practitioners – comments please!
Published: 03 December 2009
In April 2009 the RCN issued a policy discussion paper on the emergence of the role of assistant practitioner in order to promote discussion and debate on their remit, purpose and function in delivering high quality nursing and health care, as well as their potential impact on the configuration of the future nursing workforce.