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  • 4 Sep 2019 Older people Nursing support workers HCAs APs and TNAs People

    Let's motivate

    Support workers are leading a project to promote exercise for ensuring older adults with mental health challenges get the physical exercise they need to go back to the homes they love.

  • 25 May 2018 Bulletin Nursing support workers Action

    Congress firsts

    Nursing’s liveliest and most action-packed conference is done and dusted for another year and health care assistants were at the centre of the action

  • 22 Nov 2018 Bulletin Opinion

    Regulation and recognition

    Lindsay Cardwell says it’s time for assistant practitioners to be regulated

  • 13 May 2018 Bulletin UK wide

    ‘We must stop this’

    RCN Chief Executive announces launch of major safe staffing campaign in her keynote speech at Congress

  • 21 Dec 2020 Bulletin History of Nursing Forum Historical journals Activists History

    Nursing history: 20 icons remembered

    Discover how the RCN's nursing history experts are preserving the legacy of brilliant nurses in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

  • 22 Jan 2020 Bulletin Library Library event Archives History

    What emotional qualities make the perfect nurse?

    Our new exhibition explores how expectations of nurses have evolved over 150 years

  • 29 Apr 2020 Bulletin History of Nursing Forum History

    Nursing history: the first male nurses

    Who were the first men on the general nursing register? Dr Stuart Wildman, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, finds out

  • 5 Mar 2020 Bulletin UK wide History of Nursing Forum History

    Celebrating Florence Nightingale

    The Florence Nightingale Museum is going the extra mile to celebrate 200 years since the birth of Britain’s most famous nurse

  • 27 Apr 2020 Bulletin History of Nursing Forum Prof Anne Marie Rafferty RCN President History

     Nightingale's legacy

    With Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday falling during the COVID-19 pandemic, the reforms she fought for feel more relevant than ever

  • 22 Mar 2021 Bulletin History of Nursing Forum History

    Eliza’s lessons: infection control in 1887

    How did nursing staff deal with infectious diseases in the 19th century? This nursing student’s notes reveal parallels with the COVID-19 pandemic