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Staffing for Safe and Effective Care
At Congress 2017, the membership of the RCN raised the alarm on the growing nursing workforce shortages across the UK, and their concern at the implications on patient safety. We have undertaken extensive engagement with members, RCN Boards, and nursing workforce experts, which we set out in this report. The outcome of this engagement is a set of RCN principles which provide high-level objectives which most meaningfully represent what we need to achieve on staffing for safe and effective care, though legislation, statutory instruments and guidance, and sufficient funding, in every country in the UK.
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Skin Disease Competency Framework
This competency framework describes the range of knowledge, skills and performance levels required of a ‘responsible person’ working within their specialty to help them achieve safe, effective and accountable practice around the issue of skin health and work-related dermatitis.
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Clinical Imaging Requests from Non-Medically Qualified Professionals
This guidance provides advice and good practice recommendations for employers and health care professionals involved in clinical imaging processes, regarding requests for all modalities of imaging procedures from non-medically qualified health care professionals. This has been developed in collaboration with the Society and College of Radiographers.
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Second RCN COVID-19 Vaccine Survey Report
In April we surveyed our members to better understand how access to the COVID-19 vaccine has developed over the first few months of the vaccination programme. This period is particularly relevant as nursing and health and care staff were identified as a priority group for vaccination. We received 20,370 responses from nursing staff in different roles and settings across the UK and this report provides an overview of the findings.
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COVID-19 Healthcare Support Appeal (CHSA) Annual Report
COVID-19 Healthcare Support Appeal (CHSA) Annual Report and Financial Statements 3 April 2020 to 31 December 2020
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Children and Young People’s Cardiac Nursing
This publication provides optimum standards for the nursing care of infants, children and young people with congenital heart disease. It includes recommendations for education and training, underpinned by competency frameworks and career pathways.
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Use of Text Messaging Services
Mobile messaging has the potential to substantially increase public access to health services and advice, empowering children, young people and their parents/carers to make health care choices and influence the way services are designed and reformed. This publication provides guidance and advice for nursing staff working with children and young people.
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Students: Thinking about your career
A helpful guide for nursing students when thinking about their future career.
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What is a trade union?
Find out what the role of trade unions is and why you should join the world's largest trade union for nursing. This is an update of publication 006 567.
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Inside care homes: keeping COVID out
How one care home manager has kept her residents clear of coronavirus
