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20 Jun 2021
The new Bladder and Bowel Care Learning Resource is live!
The RCN Bladder and Bowel Forum are excited to share with you the updated e-learning resource for Bladder and Bowel Care.
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15 Jun 2021
Caring for ourselves
So here we are, hopefully, emerging from the worst pandemic in a century. It has taken its toll on the heath care workforce across all sectors. I think our mental health has been particularly impacted as we have juggled work with family responsibilities, shouldered concern for our loved ones, been unable to see our wider family and friends and the associated isolation has been particularly challenging.
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10 Jun 2021
Keeping nursing high on the UK government's agenda
Pat Cullen, Acting RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, updates members on how she continues to raise Fair Pay for Nursing and Staffing for Safe and Effective Care with parliamentarians and policy makers.
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8 Jun 2021
Taking a leap into the unknown - from online to learning to placement
My name is Ariana Graf Haro, I’m part of the first cohort in England for the RCN Prince of Wales Nursing Cadets. I was encouraged to join as it is an area of learning that I had never explored before.
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6 Jun 2021
Compassion at end of life - best practice in care homes
Providing care for older people at end of life has been challenging for all healthcare professionals during the COVID pandemic but everyone has the right to be be cared for with dignity, compassion and respect. As nurses, health care assistants, managers and policy makers, we should be aware of the philosophy of Dame Cicely Saunders. As founder of the modern Hospice movement, her drive was to deliver care with compassion as end of life approaches. Her famous quote, "you matter because you are you and you matter to the last moment of your life" still resonates in all care settings today.
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3 Jun 2021
A landmark resolution – and time for global action on nursing and midwifery
Professor Dame Anne Marie Rafferty updates members on the recent resolution on nursing and midwifery at the World Health Assembly and how the G7 Summit is a critical time for the international community to translate support into action.
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3 Jun 2021
Fair pay, safe staffing and staff wellbeing must be the building blocks for service recovery
In 2019 we celebrated the Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Act being passed by the Scottish Parliament. I recall how proud I felt, sitting in the Parliament for the final debate, as the role our campaigning had in shaping this legislation – the first in the UK to set out requirements for safe staffing across both health and care services – was recognised.
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31 May 2021
Building for the future - my experience of the RCN Prince of Wales Nursing Cadet Scheme
My name is Rachael Alexander and I took part in the Prince of Wales Nursing Cadet Scheme in August 2020. I applied even though I didn’t think I stood a chance at being a successful candidate, but I was so bored during the pandemic I needed to do something.
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31 May 2021
Making a difference during a pandemic - how joining the RCN Prince of Wales Nursing Cadet Scheme changed my year
I’m Michaella Parcell, I was part of the first cohort of the RCN Prince of Wales Nursing Cadets. I have now become a Nursing Cadet Facilitator, helping to facilitate the HEIW funded sessions and support new nursing cadets.
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27 May 2021
Women’s Health: A global injustice
RCN President Anne Marie Rafferty and Deputy President Tracey Budding on the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on women’s health.
