Clinical Nurse Specialists in Early Pregnancy Care Consensus Statement

This publication details further work following the impact assessment and subsequent report of the RCN’s Clinical Nurse Specialists in Early Pregnancy Care Standards in 2021. To address recommendations from that report, the project team worked with key stakeholders to clarify the way forward, ensuring the standards are fit for purpose and supporting implementation of the standards.

Valuing Nursing in the UK

Despite public support for the nursing profession, governments across the UK are failing to value and support nursing staff. Nursing staff feel undervalued and unsafe, causing an alarming number to leave the profession altogether. This report presents a range of factors which impact retention, as well as recommendations for action to bring widespread benefits for the workforce, and for safe and effective care.

Impact of Staffing Levels on Safe and Effective Patient Care

This evidence review was commissioned to support policy influencing and to point RCN staff and members towards the latest evidence on staffing for safe and effective care. A previous evidence review was completed to support the RCN’s Staffing for Safe and Effective Care (2019) report, with this current evidence review bringing that up to date.

Exhibitions in Scotland

Outreach services

RCN Scotland's learning activities, educational courses, local learning and other resources specific to Scotland for RCN members.

Supporting our members who work in care homes

Resources for supporting our members who work in care homes

Nursing support workers

in Scotland

RCN Scotland Activist Conference 2025

Programme

Sharps safety

Sharps are commonly used in the delivery of health and care and can be found in all care settings. Sharps, whilst necessary can result in harm to the user with a risk of infection if an injury is sustained after use on a patient/person. This guide has been developed primarily for RCN safety representatives, but other members of the nursing or midwifery team with a role in infection prevention and control (IPC), who support the management of sharps injuries may also find it a useful reference.

Response to student bursaries

Responses to student bursaries collected by contributors during November and December 2015.