Summer edition of Practice Matters published

Published: 09 October 2012

The new second edition of ‘Practice Matters’, the quarterly newsletter for practice nurses, is now available online.

The newsletter created to support practice nurses and healthcare assistants, keeping them up to date with the latest RCN news, health care issues, events and publications that relate specifically to their role.

The summer issue has a lot of interesting articles including the following:

RCN News

• Latest on the NMC registration fee hike.
• South West region well represented at Congress 2012.
• Congress : Views of a Practice Nurse.
• RCN support for General practice HCAs.
• How can the RCN support HCAs in your practice

Your questions

• Should nurses countersign notes?

Healthcare news

• New tools in nursing arsenal to diagnose dementia.
• New strain of Gonorrhoea untreatable.
• New online Flu educational video.

Events

• Cornwall Practice Nurse Conference.

Publications

• Update on the Learning Zone for you.
• New RCN guide to Tackling TB.
• eHealth Position Statement.
   

Read the latest issue of Practice Matters - Summer edition here [PDF 939 kb] [how to download a PDF].

We value your opinion, if you have any feedback from this issue, or ideas for articles for the next issue, please contact: Claire Wickes, Assistant Regional Communications Officer for the South West on: claire.wickes@rcn.org.uk.

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