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Understanding mental health
Poor mental health can affect day-to-day functioning, relationships, physical health, and the ability to enjoy life. Learn more about how your role as a nurse can help promote good mental health and how to support patients who may have a mental illness.
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Trauma-informed care
Understand more about the fundamental principles for trauma-informed approaches in the UK. Listen to podcasts which explain more how a trauma-informed approach can help us understand and address inequalities and promote mental wellbeing.
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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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Suicide awareness
Explore the latest policies and guidance on preventing suicide in community and custodial settings. This resource offers advice on how to support your understanding of suicidal thought and spot the early warning signs.
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Consultative survey for Manx Care staff
Consultative survey for Manx Care staff
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From the Archives: Are nursing textbooks useful or wise?
This blog series will delve into the oldest of the RCN’s historical book collection, exploring the ways in which nursing was taught in the past. Herbert E Cuff’s 1896 ‘Lectures on Medicine to Nurses’ is one such example.
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Meet the Team
An expert team passionate about celebrating nursing history
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Traction Principles and Application
The use of apparatus to apply traction to injured limbs has played an important role in the treatment of patients with fractures for centuries. This updated guidance provides information on applying traction and caring for patients safely whilst traction remains in place. It also reflects the variation in the application of traction across the UK.
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Investing in nursing the key to improving children’s health outcomes, says RCN in response to latest Health and Social Care Committee report
RCN Chief Nursing Officer Lynn Woolsey, said: “Health visitors, school nurses and other vital staff in our communities are critical for giving babies, children and young people the best start in life. Yet these specialist, safety-critical nurses have seen their workforce numbers collapse over the last decade."
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Southampton and Isle of Wight
This branch is open to RCN members working in Southampton and Isle of Wight.
