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Clinical Nurse Specialists in Early Pregnancy Care Consensus Statement
This publication details further work following the impact assessment and subsequent report of the RCN’s Clinical Nurse Specialists in Early Pregnancy Care Standards in 2021. To address recommendations from that report, the project team worked with key stakeholders to clarify the way forward, ensuri...
Updated: 18 June 2023 -
Valuing Nursing in the UK
Despite public support for the nursing profession, governments across the UK are failing to value and support nursing staff. Nursing staff feel undervalued and unsafe, causing an alarming number to leave the profession altogether. This report presents a range of factors which impact retention, as we...
Updated: 15 February 2023 -
Impact of Staffing Levels on Safe and Effective Patient Care
This evidence review was commissioned to support policy influencing and to point RCN staff and members towards the latest evidence on staffing for safe and effective care. A previous evidence review was completed to support the RCN’s Staffing for Safe and Effective Care (2019) report, with this curr...
Updated: 22 February 2023 -
Outreach services
RCN Scotland's learning activities, educational courses, local learning and other resources specific to Scotland for RCN members.
Updated: 4 November 2024 -
Supporting our members who work in care homes
Resources for supporting our members who work in care homes
Updated: 22 July 2025 -
Nursing support workers
in Scotland
Updated: 23 July 2025 -
Sharps safety
Sharps are commonly used in the delivery of health and care and can be found in all care settings. Sharps, whilst necessary can result in harm to the user with a risk of infection if an injury is sustained after use on a patient/person. This guide has been developed primarily for RCN safety represen...
Updated: 23 November 2023 -
Response to student bursaries
Responses to student bursaries collected by contributors during November and December 2015.
Updated: 4 February 2021 -
RCNi Annual Report 2022
The RCN Publishing Company Limited Annual Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2022.
Updated: 13 November 2023 -
Improving patient outcomes by improving staff health and wellbeing
Publication for directors of nursing who want to improve the health and wellbeing of the workforce and, subsequently, patient outcomes.
Updated: 4 February 2021
