Blog
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blog posts
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7 Jan 2022
RCN Council January update to members
RCN Council members share their updates from the past month and detail how they are supporting members through their work. Vice-Chair of RCN Council, Mel Kerr, introduces this month’s update to members.
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10 May 2021
Resilience and redeployment during the pandemic
Like many health care staff, Janet drew on her courage and resilience while being deployed to new teams and settings several times during the pandemic.
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8 Mar 2021
Use your power to empower people
I originally thought I wanted to be a teacher. As a teaching assistant I was assigned to a one-to-one role with a little girl with complex needs who didn’t yet have a diagnosis... This little girl changed my life and my career.
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8 Mar 2021
I’m passionate about keeping my team safe
I’m the District Nurse Team Lead for Ulverston, Dalton and Millom, working out of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust. It’s a band seven role and I started in June 2019; I was just finding my feet when the pandemic hit.
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21 Dec 2020
An end of year message to all members
Read Glenn Turp's seasonal message to members in Yorkshire and Humber and Northern regions.
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11 Dec 2020
It’s time for those in power to listen to our stories
I recently had a call from my local MP, Bridget Phillipson, MP for Houghton and Sunderland South.
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23 Nov 2020
The RCN isn’t just for nurses
I’m on the Nursing Support Workers Committee of the RCN and I get a lot out of being an RCN member. I don’t think many HCAs and APs, TNAs and NAs realise that the RCN isn’t just for nurses. Although the College is about the whole nursing team, not enough people know that.
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30 Sep 2020
Building resilience through the student experience
It’s been a busy time for students, and it certainly has for me with my role as student committee member representing the Northern region.
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9 Sep 2020
Nursing staff are facing difficult challenges every day
In these unprecedented and challenging times when nurses are facing difficult challenges every day, when the talk seems to be about returning to a ‘new normal’ it is especially important that we all receive the right support in our work and practice, and a network of colleagues facing similar challenges can really help.
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9 Jul 2020
I never looked back
I’m coming to the end of my second term on the board. I came to it through being a rep and a branch executive committee member. I was a quiet, shy person before getting involved with the RCN, but my rep experience gave me the confidence to speak out and ask questions, feeling safe knowing I had support behind me.
