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Blogs
Read the latest blogs from the RCN Libraries team.
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For Queen and Country: Nursing, Trauma and War
Find out more about our defence nursing exhibition
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A healthful form of work: The history of public health nursing
Find out more about our exhibition A healthful form of work: the history of public health nursing.
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The Right Sort of Women: Nursing Founders
Find out more about our past exhibition, The Right Sort of Women: Nursing Founders and read about the founding of the RCN.
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Getting future proofed
Thoughts from the Chair of the North West Regional Board.
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Reducing restrictive practices
Understand more about the role mental health nurses play in ensuring inpatient wards deliver safe, therapeutic interventions. Here you can access relevant legislation and find out more about the use of restrictive practices in inpatient mental health services.
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Professional guidance
Mental health professional guidance
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What
Major advances in medicine, changes in the NHS and the growth of nursing specialisms and research have changed the role of nursing dramatically in the last 100 years.
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Who
From Victorian times to the present day, the image of the nurse has taken on many roles in our imagination.
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Now
Since we were set up by a group of hospital matrons, the Royal College of Nursing has seen great changes. Today we are an influential nursing community where equality, diversity, human rights and inclusion and fundamental to nursing care.
