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Karen’s poster promotes dignity

Published: 27 April 2012

An RCN member and health care support worker (HCSW) has produced a poster to promote dignity in the workplace.

Time for everyone to celebrate Nurses’ Day

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Health care assistants and assistant practitioners (HCAs and APs) are preparing to join their nursing colleagues to celebrate Nurses’ Day on 12 May.

HCAs and APs urged to join forum steering committees

Published: 02 May 2012

Health care assistant (HCA) and assistant practitioner (AP) RCN members are encouraged to apply to sit on a steering committee for one of the College’s specialist forums.

Top tips from Tanis

Published: 02 May 2012

In each of our e-newsletters we are focusing on each of the Principles of Nursing Practice, as they are such a fundamental part of good nursing care.

Top tips from Tanis

Published: 27 February 2012

The RCN’s Adviser for HCA and AP members gives advice on how to manage risk and help keep people safe in places of care.

Five minutes with a prison nursing support worker

Published: 27 February 2012

Health care assistants do a whole range of duties in very diverse settings. Leanne Porter is a nursing support worker at a prison in Warwickshire. She explains what attracted her to the position and what she has learned since starting.

"Just doing my job"

Published: 24 November 2011

When health care assistant David Faulkner struggled to communicate with a patient who had suffered a stroke, he became determined to find a tool that helped him overcome the problem. This is his story

A passion for promoting you

Published: 24 November 2011

The RCN has a new leader at the helm of its governing Council. Professor Kath McCourt took up the role last month and reflects here on the historic decision to make health care assistants full members of the RCN