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Estimation
Learn the skills needed to estimate the answer to a number problem before you calculate it. This resource looks at how to spot mistakes with calculating doses and why simplifying the numbers will help you to reach the correct answer.
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Mental Health Forum
We represent mental health nursing and all things mental health within the wider family of the RCN.
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Pregnancy and learning disabilities
For women with learning disabilities, the right to have a child can be complicated. Explore the considerations with regards to capacity to understand pregnancy and the key features of good practice when working with parents with learning disabilities.
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Flow rate and IV drugs
Increase your knowledge when it comes to calculations relating to giving fluid medicines over a period of time (continuous infusions), for example, drugs provided intravenously through an IV line.
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Hydration essentials
Learn how to monitor someone for the signs of dehydration and understand the signs and effects. Here you will also find out what dehydration can lead to and how to encourage people to drink the right amount of fluids.
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Pregnancy, blindness and vision impairment
Increase your understanding of how blindness or vision impairment can affect women who are pregnant and find out more about how to support women with getting the right support before and after the birth of their baby.
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Stoma
Nursing with a stoma - guidance and a tailored reasonable adjustments passport.
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“If you get it right for people with learning disabilities, you get it right for everyone.”
In October 2024 we held our Annual Lecture where Professor Martin Knapp presented his findings from a scoping review we commissioned.
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Honour Roll
Learn more about present and past donors of the RCN Foundation, and the lasting impact their donation has made towards support nursing and midwifery and improving patient care
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My top 5 tips for getting your Will sorted
The RCN Foundation's Tamara Gervasoni shares her Will writing guide