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Being a new RCN Diabetes Committee member
Joining the Diabetes Forum Committee. My first strategy day and conference with the RCN Diabetes Forum.
Updated: 21 July 2025 -
The importance of decontamination in Endoscopy
This Blog provides a brief discussion on key features and guidelines of decontamination in Endoscopy Units, including the importance of training and guidelines.
Updated: 18 August 2025 -
IBD Benchmarking
The National IBD benchmarking has now been released and enables IBD teams across the country to measure their service against the IBD standards and other IBD services.
Updated: 2 May 2025 -
From the Archives: Alice Bird - Shaping the profession at Leeds General Infirmary
The RCN archives hold a wealth of artifacts and papers documenting the history of nursing from individual lives to major events. This blog series from the History of Nursing Forum is delving into the collection to share its treasures and to bring the archive to life. This is the second of 3 posts, c...
Updated: 11 May 2025 -
Nurses in Red - putting nurses back into history
Are you interested in the history of nursing and want to learn more? In this blog we describe our experiences in the History of Nursing Forum 'Nurses in Red' Project. We have a wiki learning event on February 3 2025, 1-3pm.
Updated: 3 June 2025 -
Matron Florence Birkin: one nurse's untold history
The Royal Berkshire Medical Museum Reading, holds the archive of Wallingford and Crowmarsh Joint Isolation Hospital (WCJIH) from its inception in 1899 to 1948. The archive provides a valuable insight into what a nurse’s duties consisted of prior to the establishment of the NHS in 1948. This blog loo...
Updated: 9 August 2025 -
A Year in the Chair
Rebekah Hill reflects on her first year as Chair of the RCN Gastrointestinal Forum Committee.
Updated: 6 May 2025 -
Asylum Years: Back to the Future? Glimpses of Institutional Life in the 1970s
This Blog looks at the forthcoming book Asylum Years: Back to the Future? Glimpses of Institutional Life in the 1970s, where readers are invited to step back in time and explore a world that has since vanished; the closed ecosystem of mental health institutions in the early 1970s.
Updated: 31 August 2025 -
From the Archives: Alice Bird's Atlantic adventure
The RCN archives hold a wealth of artefacts and papers documenting the history of nursing from individual lives to major events. This blog series from the History of Nursing Forum is delving into the collection to share its treasures and to bring the archive to life.
Updated: 29 June 2025 -
Shifting the culture - why normalising grief in healthcare is important
This blog is about the importance and value of providing a restorative and reflective space for teams to share thoughts and experiences of death and dying. Normalising grief within the context of healthcare may help to improve patient care and reduce burnout.
Updated: 11 July 2025