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Publications

RCN publications cover a wide range of topics varying from clinical guidance to employment relations issues to advice on bullying. To reproduce RCN publications please complete the copyright request form and we’ll be in touch.



  • 16 Dec 2015

    RCN Library and Archive Services - Five Year Plan 2016-2020

    Publication Code : 005429

    Publication outlining the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Library and Archive Service Five Year Plan.

  • 2 Nov 2015

    Role of the Designated Nurse for Looked After Children and Named Nurse for Looked After Children in England

    Publication Code : 005399

    Position statement clarifying the roles and responsibilities of the Designated Nurse for Looked After Children and the Named Nurse for Looked After Children.

  • 1 Oct 2015

    Healthy you assessment worksheet

    Publication Code : 005539

    Self assessment providing an overview of effective strategies to maintain a healthy you.

  • 1 Oct 2015

    A workforce in crisis? The UK nursing labour market review 2015

    Publication Code : 005 348

    Report providing a review of the UK nursing labour market, looking at recent data and trends for nursing staff working in the health sector across the UK, drawing out differences and similarities across the four UK countries.

  • 29 Sep 2015

    Healthy Workplace, Healthy You Booklet

    Publication Code : 004965

    Booklet detailing the calls that the RCN is making to employers as part of the Healthy Workplace, Healthy You campaign.

  • 29 Sep 2015

    The case for healthy workplaces

    Publication Code : 004963

    Document outlining the RCN’s approach to promoting employee health and wellbeing through the creation of healthy workplaces.

  • 1 Sep 2015

    RCN Employment Survey 2015

    Publication Code : 005350

    Report produced by Labour Research Department on behalf of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) based on the results of an online survey completed by a random sample of the RCN membership.

  • 1 Sep 2015

    Spinning plates – working flexibly to support a healthy work-life balance

    Publication Code : 004971

    This publication supports the RCN’s Healthy Workplace campaign by providing guidance to RCN representatives and other interested parties on one of the main issues affecting work-life balance today: flexible working. The aim is to ensure that representatives can work with employers and policy-makers in their workplaces, and provide appropriate representation to RCN members who may need support to gain access to flexible working.

  • 22 Jun 2015

    International Recruitment 2015

    Publication Code : 004000

    The RCN is increasingly worried that changes to the immigration rules will have a disproportionate impact on the retention and recruitment of nurses from outside Europe. This report shows that up to 3,365 nurses currently working in the UK may have to leave the country from 2017 as a direct result of the 2012 immigration changes.

  • 19 Jun 2015

    Fair pay in the independent sector

    Publication Code : 004 836

    Document providing advice for those nurses and health care assistants working within the independent sector and contains guidance on how to raise working arrangements and pay matters with employers.