Useful links for learning representatives

RCN Direct - Online advice

The online advice service provides you with comprehensive information and advice on a whole range of issues, including legal, employment relations and nursing practice. Online advice also contains RCN factsheets and guides, and a popular resources section. Please visit the online advice homepage.

RCN Research and Development Co-ordinating Centre

The RCN Research and Development (R&D) Co-ordinating Centre works in partnership with the RCN Research Society and other key stakeholders to promote excellence in care through research and development in the UK and internationally.

You can make sure you get all the latest on R&D developments by signing up for the weekly e-bulletin. To find out more information, as well as viewing archive editions of the e-bulletin, please visit the Research and Development section of the RCN website.

RCN forum communities

There are 41 RCN forum communities which contain up to date news and features on specific areas of nursing. You can view the full list of communities here.

Labour Research Department booklets

RCN activists have free online access to Labour Research Department (LRD) publications. The LRD is the leading research and information service for trade unionists. If you are trying to find about an employment law case, health and safety rights or a broad range of other key trade union issues, LRD publications online is the place to start. Please view the LRD section of the RCN website.

RCN Dignity campaign

The RCN's 'Dignity: at the heart of everything we do' campaign was launched in June 2008. For more information and useful publications and resources, please go to the Dignity section of the RCN website.

National Nursing Research Unit

Policy+ is a publication from the National Nursing Research Unit which aims to deliver brief overviews of evidence related to current policies affecting the nursing workforce in England, the wider United Kingdom and the rest of the world. For more information, please visit the Kings College London site.