Blog
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28 Feb 2024
Gaslight
This blog has been submitted by a member who wishes to remain anonymous, for reasons that will become clear as you read it. Bullying is a common phenomenon for nurses, with around a quarter of the nursing family experiencing bullying in the past year. This blog highlights my personal experience of “gaslighting” - a specific type of bullying, and how I am gradually recovering from this.
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14 Feb 2024
What matters to you?
Has anyone lately asked, ‘what matters to you?’ What matters to you as an individual? What matters to our patients? What about as a staff member?
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1 Feb 2023
Responses to questions raised by members at Congress
Responses by the RCN Perioperative Forum to questions raised by members at Congress
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31 Jan 2023
A day in the life of a Theatre based Clinical Education Facilitator
How I support substantive staff to meet their CPD requirements and how I support learners and their supervisors / assessors in practice in my role as a clinical education facilitator within an orthopaedic operating theatre.
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16 Jun 2022
Being a newly registered theatre nurse in the pandemic
Perioperative Nursing - the challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and the value/benefits that perioperative nurses bring for patients.
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27 May 2022
How can we invigorate membership of our forum?
The Perioperative Forum committee recently recruited a number of new members, each bringing their own diverse skill set and experience to the group. We are excited by the opportunity that this presents to re-focus the aim and priorities of the forum, expanding our reach to have maximum impact and benefit for our members.