The RCN provides a range of clinical advice and support to help nurses and health care professionals.
| Title | Synonyms |
|---|---|
| Clinical governance | Quality improvement, patient centred care |
| Complementary therapies | Complementary therapy, complementary medicine, alternative therapy, alternative medicine |
| Continence | enuresis, urinary incontinence, incontinence |
| Nursing in justice and forensic health care | prison, prisons, prison nursing, prison healthcare, justice nursing, forensic nursing, secure settings, criminal justice services |
| Dementia | Mental illness |
| Diabetes | |
| Domestic abuse | domestic violence, domestic abuse, controlling behaviour, coercive behaviour |
| eHealth | digital health, online health, telecare, telehealth, eCare, ICTs, mHealth |
| End of life care | Palliative care, EOLC |
| Female genital mutilation | Female circumcision, Female genital cutting, FGM |
| Infection prevention and control | Epidemiology, sepsis |
| Medicines optimisation | Medicines management |
| Mental health | mental health, depression, mental disorder, personality disorder, schizophrenia, emotional disorder, emotional instability, loss of mind, maladjustment, nervous breakdown, nervous disorder, paranoia, phobia, psychosis. troubled mind, unbalanced, delusions |
| Modern slavery | trafficking, modern day slavery, slave, slave trade, enslave |
| Neuroscience nursing | neuroscience neurology neurosurgery neurotrauma |
| Nutrition and hydration | Nourishment |
| Older people | Elderly services |
| Patient safety and human factors | Safety culture, adverse events, avoidable errors, patient harm |
| Public health | Immunisation, Obesity, Occupational Health, Self care, Sexual Health, Smoking, Travel Health, Tuberculosis |
| Safeguarding | |
| Safety in numbers | maths, calculations, Numeracy, dosage, estimate, medications, prescribing, prescribe, tablets, pills, |
| Supporting behaviour change | supporting behaviour change, public health, motivational interviewing, diet, physical activity, healthy behaviours, lifestyle risk factors, alcohol, tobacco, smoking cessation, making every contact count |
