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Message from your RCN Student Adviser, Gill Robertson
May 2012
**NEW** Want to win an iPad2? Take part in the national nursing and midwifery student survey to be in with a chance
Nursing Standard and RCN Students want to build a picture of life as a student nurse. We would be really grateful if you could take 15 minutes to complete our survey: www.nursing-standard.co.uk/studentsurvey
Don't be put off if you are a newly qualified nurse - we would like to hear from you too. The closing date is 1 June, and all students that complete it will be entered into a prize draw for the chance to win an iPad2 or £175 of Marks and Spencer vouchers.
Student Finance Guide
We have launched a new online resource called MoneySmart: Your Guide to Student Finance. The guide can be found on our website by visiting www.rcn.org.uk/student_finance_guide. The interactive document provides advice on bursaries, budgeting, benefits and housing as well as top tips on how to make your money go further. It has been compiled by experts in the RCN’s Welfare Rights and Guidance department.
Frontline First
The RCN continues to work to ensure that frontline services in the NHS are protected from damaging cuts and efficiency savings through its Frontline First campaign. Read more about the campaign on the Frontline First website.
Do also get in touch with anything you wish to advertise in our events section or indeed with anything you want to tell us about what is going on in your area.
- Students stand up for nursing
- RCN Students discuss: the state of nurse education
- What did students think of RCN Congress 2012?
- Education Commission
- Is nurse education fit for purpose?
- Students seek to tackle video game violence
- White Paper to Act
- RCN students scoop prestigious nursing awards
- Student index scrapped
- RCN warns of chronic nurse shortages as training places are slashed
What's new?
Moved house? Changed your mobile? Update your details online with MyRCN
You can also now join the RCN online
Do you have a story to tell?
Are there things happening in your university which you would like to share - maybe some very good practice or maybe a problem that you have managed to solve so that everyone benefits?
If so, Gill Robertson, the RCN's student adviser, would like to hear from you. Tel: 07711 808509 or email: gill.robertson@rcn.org.uk. Get the most from your community.

