Professional Services

RCN Professional Services provides a range of programmes and services which can help organisations to improve patient care and patient experience in the UK.

Whether you are aiming to improve the culture of leadership within your workplace, enhance your own skills and professional development, or empower your team to implement service innovations, we have a selection of free and paid-for courses to support you.

RCN Leadership

Improving patient care through quality leadership.

Fitness to practise

Supportive approaches when addressing conduct and capability issues.

Demonstrating value

Enabling service improvement through principles of economic assessment.

RCN Accreditation

Demonstrating excellence within the nursing community.

RCN Credentialing

Recognising advanced level practice in nursing.

Cultural ambassadors

Identify and explore issues of culture, behaviour, discrimination and cultural bias in your organisation through our innovative programme.

Cultural Ambassador Programme

This is an innovative RCN programme designed in collaboration with the West Midlands BAME Stakeholder Group.

Our CPD courses with academic credits are developed by the Royal College of Nursing and are credited by Coventry University. Our portfolio of courses includes Infection Prevention and Control, Leading the way: Improving Mental & Physical Health and Leading Sustainability in Health and Social Care. Courses are available to members and non-members.
RCN CPD courses provide 20 academic credits at either level 6 (Bachelors) or level 7 (Masters).
Our courses are offered via a fully online learning mode, including dedicated contact days plus study time.
Each course costs £1,100 (without credits), £1,480 (with credits).

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Infection Prevention and Control Programme

An introductory programme to infection prevention and control.

Leading Sustainability in Health and Social Care

A programme developed to support anyone in the role of clinical leader in every care setting.

Leadership to Improve Physical and Mental Health

A programme to promote understanding of physical and mental health needs.

Online learning

Access your learning anytime, with a selection of online CPD courses that provide a variety of activities and resources to support you in your role.

First Steps

This free online learning tool for health care assistants covers essential topics to help get you started in your career as an HCA or to refresh your learning.

Every Nurse an eNurse

An introduction to the ways technology is changing health and social care.

Skin Health Toolkit

The skin health toolkit provides you with a set of learning resources to support you with maintaining healthy skin.

Think CO

This resource will enable you to increase your knowledge regarding the risks of Carbon Monoxide poisoning.

Bite-sized online learning

Make your learning manageable with our selection of bite-sized courses that provide key principles and concepts.

End of Life Care and Nursing Wellbeing

This programme will provide resources to support the delivery of end of life care to the dying person, their family and carers.

Introduction to Prehabilitation

This looks at how we, as nurses and health care professionals, can support patients to be as healthy and fit as possible before they go into planned surgery or start cancer treatments.

Introducing Critical Care

An introduction to critical care for the nursing and midwifery workforce.

Introducing RCN Learn

RCN Learn brings you instant access to the latest nursing, social and health care learning resources from the RCN and RCNi.

Find hundreds of evidence-based, quality assured resources at the click of a button.

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