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'Are You Hydrated?' poster
This poster encourages nursing staff to check their urine for signs of dehydration.
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Gender Pay Gap Report 2024
This report outlines the statistics of the gender pay gap at the Royal College of Nursing for 2024.
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Working with Dogs in Health Care Settings
This updated guidance highlights the precautions that should be taken when dogs are brought into various health care settings and provides clear guidance on all reasonable safeguards that should be put in place to protect patients or residents, visitors and staff. It covers the role of both the dog and the owner/handler and includes information that all organisations should take into account before allowing a dog to access their premises. This includes staff with assistance dogs as well as patients, visitors, and people and organisations who have contact or who work with assistance dogs or therapy dogs.
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Council's Report to Members on Congress 2024
This report details the activities that have been carried out by RCN members and staff to push forward with the resolutions and matters for discussions passed at Congress 2024.
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Nursing Workforce Standards
The RCN’s Nursing Workforce Standards is the first national blueprint for tackling the nursing staff shortage in your workplace and across the UK.
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The RCN Activism Strategy 2025 - 2027
The RCN’s Activism Strategy, developed by our Activism Academy is grounded in the experiences of our members and addresses their top priorities: safe staffing levels, fair pay, and working conditions. The strategy’s ambitions will help us grow our activist community, to empower members to become influential in the decisions that affect the workforce and profession, and to teach and develop RCN activists.
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EDI Strategy: First year highlights and impact report
The RCN Group's first Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategy, launched in May 2024, outlines a commitment to embedding equity and inclusion throughout the RCN by challenging discrimination and promoting representation at all levels. Serving as a living document, the strategy sets 5 key priorities and establishes clear structures and accountability to drive lasting change and advocate more effectively for its diverse membership. Read our report to find out how we are progressing and the steps we’re taking to deliver meaningful change.
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Nursing at the helm
This report highlights the essential, strategic impact of nursing staff working in commissioning and oversight bodies in England, to protect against any risk to nursing functions within the context of cost-saving measures and reforms.
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RCN Research Strategy
The RCN Research Strategy sets out our vision to champion nursing research, and to empower all of our members to lead, engage with, and apply research findings, that not only benefits patient care and outcomes, but also helps to raise the profile of nursing research for generations to come.
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Ethical issues arising from the assisted dying debate
The assisted dying debate is complex, with confusion over definitions and the stance taken by professional bodies. It can also be challenging to make sense of the claims made by those who support changes in the law regarding assisted dying. End of life care is an important aspect of a nurse’s role and therefore understanding the ethical issues arising from the debate is useful for nurses in clinical practice. This article outlines the legal position in the UK and the bills currently before the Westminster and Scottish parliaments proposing changes in the law. It also considers major ethical issues arising from the debate, along with the nurse’s role in caring for patients requesting assisted dying.
