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Essential Practice for Infection Prevention and Control
The prevention and management of infection is the responsibility of all staff working in health and social care and is an integral element of patient safety programmes. This updated publication provides important information and guidance on the essential principles of infection prevention and contro...
Updated: 4 February 2021 -
IPC. Information and learning resources for health care staff
Infection prevention and control (IPC) practice is an essential component of health and social care, and policy and guidance is constantly evolving. Research helps to inform the evidence base for this important area of nursing practice. This resource gives you guidance on how to search and find the ...
Updated: 4 February 2021 -
Safe Staffing Postcard
Postcard for safe staffing survey. What were staffing levels like the last time you were at work?
Updated: 4 February 2021 -
Safe and Effective Staffing: the Real Picture
This report provides an important contribution to the conversation on nurse staffing levels and to patient safety in health care. It contains two new datasets: assessments by Directors of Nursing of the state of the UK’s health systems and its workforce, and data on nurse staff vacancies in Trusts i...
Updated: 4 February 2021 -
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Michael Rosen: 'your profession saved my life'
At RCN Congress, world-renowned children’s author and poet Michael shared an insight into the care and devotion nursing staff showed him during his recovery from COVID-19
Updated: 7 November 2022 -
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Words of comfort: nurse's poetry book helps children visiting hospital
Visiting a loved one in ITU can be stressful and scary – especially for children. Critical care nurse Phoebe Coghlan's book aims to make the experience less daunting
Updated: 21 May 2023 -
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'We're all part of the solution in social care'
We ask Professor Deborah Sturdy, England’s first chief nurse for adult social care, about her role and what motivates her
Updated: 12 December 2022 -
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Empowering refugee nurses
Navigating nursing in a new country isn’t easy, but a pioneering scheme is supporting refugees into NHS employment
Updated: 18 January 2022 -
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‘Nursing staff play an important role in building a fairer society’
Public health expert Professor Sir Michael Marmot tells us how the pandemic has exacerbated health inequalities – and how nurses could pressure the government to act
Updated: 26 February 2022 -
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Five minutes with... a nurse climate change campaigner
Confidence, communication and carbon literacy: Rhea shares what she learned from the RCN’s sustainability programme
Updated: 23 September 2023
