Clinical

The RCN provides a range of clinical advice and support to help nurses and health care professionals.

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Title	Synonyms
Bladder and bowel care	enuresis, urinary incontinence, incontinence
Cancer	Cancer, Cancer framework
Children and young people	children, young people, adolescent, neonatal nursing, school nursing, health visiting, safeguarding children, children in care
Consent	Consent, consensual, capacity, autonomy
Clinical governance	Quality improvement, patient centred care
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
Learning disabilities	Learning Disability/Disabilities, Learning Difficulties, Intellectual disability, autism, Positive Behaviour Support, PBS, Nursing, Registered Nurse in Learning Disabilities, RNLD, clinical, Mental capacity
Medicines management	Medicines management, medicines optimisation, prescribing, medicine management, medicine optimisation
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 and human trafficking	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
Women's health	Women's health, menopause, termination of pregnancy, HPV screening, maternity care, PCOS, endometriosis, fertility, menstrual well-being, pregnancy, pregnancy care