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20 Mar 2024
We come at a cost, but we have so much to offer
Iola Marie Khan reflects on the ups and downs of working as an agency nurse.
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20 Mar 2024
Not all nurses wear blue – pre-hospital nursing
An insight into moving from a career based in the hospital environment to the pre-hospital environment.
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19 Mar 2024
Mental Health Nursing Psychosocial Interventions: what are they, and why do we need them?
Dr Stephen Jones introduces the RCN’s Psychosocial Interventions Programme which will launch in September 2024 as part of the RCN’s mental health programmes workstreams.
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18 Mar 2024
Latest news for Nursing Support Workers
Sandra-Jane, RCN Eastern's Nursing Support Workers Committee member, shares some important updates.
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19 Oct 2023
Standing up for Black nursing staff
For Black History Month, RCN President Sheila Sobrany writes about how the RCN is celebrating throughout October, and the continuing struggle for racial justice and equality.
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21 Sep 2023
Season change in nursing
RCN President, Sheila Sobrany looks at the challenges and opportunities in the coming months
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20 Sep 2023
Get active – what does that even mean?
I became ‘RCN active’ in about 2013 but what does ‘get active’ even mean? Well, for me it's been a rollercoaster of a journey. A journey through which I have made life-long friends and made a difference to colleagues in my workplace and across the profession.
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18 Sep 2023
'I seldom get to meet patients waiting for a transplant but I know they are counting on me'
This Organ Donation Week, RCN Fellow Anthony Clarkson encourages everyone to think about making this life-saving decision.
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18 Sep 2023
Pushing for a cultural shift
I’ve always been an RCN member, but it’s only as a staff member that I’ve realised the true extent of what we do for our members.
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18 Sep 2023
Job evaluation raises pay and reward for nursing support workers in Bristol
In 2021 new job profiles were agreed by Staff Council, which includes the RCN and NHS Employers. The new profiles say that Band 2 staff should be undertaking tasks such as feeding, bathing, toileting, recording fluid balance and nutrition while any staff undertaking patient observations and clinical care such as monitoring heart and blood pressure rates, taking bloods, wound observation and urine analysis should be job evaluated to Band 3. This meant that many staff were entitled to a re-band.
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