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Walking my Mum home: reflections on care, loss, and a new chapter
The last week of my Mum’s life was both the hardest and the most profound experience I’ve ever lived through. It was a week where time slowed, where every breath mattered, and where the boundaries between being a daughter and being a nurse blurred into something deeply human. I had always known that the fundamental skills I learned during my training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and beyond would shape my career, but I never imagined how much they would shape this final chapter with her.
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Respected as a safety-critical profession
Our campaign for proper recognition of nursing expertise, training and experience
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Catheters: improving safety and dignity webinar
Explore best practice in bladder assessment and urinary management, including when catheterisation is indicated and when alternative approaches may be appropriate. This free webinar will examine strategies to reduce catheter-associated harm, protect skin integrity and improve patient experience across acute, community and care home settings.
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Standing together against unfair shift changes
On Thursday 30 July, RCN members from Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board held a demonstration outside the Health Board meeting at Royal Glamorgan Hospital in response to proposed changes to their shifts.
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MSPs pass bill to tighten rules on cosmetic procedures
MSPs in the Scottish Parliament have passed the Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill which aims to improve safety in Scotland’s non-surgical cosmetic procedure sector.
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Peta Clark appointed Regional Director for Northern and Yorkshire & Humber
Peta Clark has been appointed as the new Regional Director for the Northern and Yorkshire & Humber regions.
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Where science meets compassion
This National Cancer CNS Day, Gynaecological Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist, Anouska Kuta reflects on how CNS connect science, compassion and leadership in modern cancer care.
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‘Never again can nursing and the public be failed like this’, says Royal College of Nursing in response to UK COVID-19 Inquiry Module 3 report
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said “These findings must mark a moment in time - never again can nursing and the public be failed like this. Our profession was sent to fight a deadly virus short of tens of thousands of nurses, while inadequate protection and ineffectual guidance led to devastating outbreaks among staff"
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Left Behind: a review of evidence on the career progression of NHS nurses
There are many important dimensions to career progression, including specialisation, leadership and management, education responsibilities, and policy and advocacy roles. This report on the career progression of nurses specifically focuses on progression within the Agenda for Change banding structures within the NHS, across the UK.
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UK heatwave: nursing staff working in 'impossible and inhumane' conditions
A heat-proof overhaul of NHS buildings and services is needed to protect staff and patients, the RCN says
