Blogs
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15 Jul 2025
Fibroid awareness month
The purpose of this Blog is to shed light on fibroids, break the silence and emphasise the urgent need for greater awareness. By understanding the challenges women face and exploring innovative ways to support them, we can improve their quality of life.
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14 Jul 2025
The everyday reality of acute in-patient care
This Blog looks at the every day experience of working in acute in-patient mental health units.
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9 Jul 2025
Focusing on frailty is key to reducing falls
Falls and frailty are linked in a cycle of harm. In this blog, I share why to prevent falls in older people living with frailty, we need to shift our focus away from a sole focus on risk avoidance and towards preventing and reversing frailty.
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9 Jul 2025
Time matters: embracing a person centred approach to discharge planning
Discharge planning is a crucial component of patient care that often goes unnoticed until it becomes a pressing issue. This Blog looks at embracing a person centred approach to discharge planning.
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9 Jul 2025
Get Out The Vote - taking time to invest in you and your colleagues
Getting out the vote - time spent now is investing in the future,
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8 Jul 2025
Don't waste your vote: why the RCN AGM matters
Why your vote is important at the RCN AGM.
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7 Jul 2025
I have just three points to make…
I was very sad to hear the news that the amazing Dame June Clark passed away in June this year. I met June several times at Congress, and she always gave sage advice. She used to be the head of the School of Nursing in Swansea and believe me, she was a force to be reckoned with. Whenever she came to the microphone at Congress she would always start with the words: "I have just three points to make". I dedicate this blog to her.
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4 Jul 2025
Raising the profile of pioneering nurses at the Glasgow Science Festival
This blog highlights our experience of running two events at the Glasgow Science Festival which shared the stories of pioneering nurses from Glasgow - tabletop activities in a museum and a walking tour of the Glasgow Necropolis cemetery with Friends of Glasgow Necropolis.
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4 Jul 2025
The challenges facing palliative care funding across the UK
Chair of the RCN Pain and Palliative Care Forum, Martin Galligan raises the alarm on funding for vital end-of-life care.
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3 Jul 2025
Forum Activism: What this means for the diabetes forum
In this blog, Helena talks about her experiences attending the RCN Forum Activism Day and how the diabetes forum are getting involved.
