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Clinical ambition
You don’t need to take the management route to progress your career, says Shallini, as she reflects on her journey to becoming a trainee advanced nurse practitioner
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Placements: A Student Survival Guide
In our new audio series for nursing students, Dr Sharon Black, the RCN's professional lead for education and leadership, shares top tips about nursing placements
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Working in the heat: know your rights
Unforgiving uniforms, outdated heating systems and lack of water stations can create dangerous work environments. Employers have a duty of care to keep you safe in hot weather
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Academic writing: what you need to know
Essay deadline approaching? RCN Wales librarian Vikki Killington shares her top tips for how to write in a more formal style.
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Social media: 5 ways it can benefit you (and 5 ways to protect yourself)
Social media can be a positive and valuable force – if it's used responsibly
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Maths anxiety? 5 steps to overcome your fear
Do numbers make you nervous? Numeracy lead and lecturer in adult nursing Nelson Selvaraj shares tools to help you feel calm and confident when you’re making calculations
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Am I in the correct band?
A review of national profiles for some nursing staff is currently underway and new draft profiles are out for consultation. But what does it all mean and how might it affect you? We delve into the detail
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What to do if you or your colleagues are being treated unfairly
Wherever you're from, whatever your role, and however long you've been in it, you deserve to be treated with respect in the workplace
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Reasonable adjustments
Find out how health ability passports can help nursing staff with disabilities get the right workplace support
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Legal update: (Mis)interpreting the rules
A Supreme Court ruling highlights the importance of collective bargaining through trade unions, not bypassing them
