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Catheter Care
Continence is one of the fundamentals of nursing care and maintaining continence can significantly increase a patient’s quality of life. This update reflects NMC guidance around the standards that nurses must maintain throughout their careers to keep their knowledge and skills up to date, and includ...
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Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Toolkit in Action - Delivering safe and effective care:
Our members continually raise concerns about the challenges they encounter accessing continuous professional development (CPD) and lifelong learning opportunities. As the workforce crisis has grown across the UK, a lack of employer support and increasing staffing pressures have left nursing staff fi...
Updated: 5 December 2025 -
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The power of plants
Good for us, great for patients – here’s why houseplants benefit everyone, and how one nurse brought some green goodness into her hospital.
Updated: 5 December 2025 -
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Calling time on overworking
Working extra time at the end of each shift can have a detrimental effect on wellbeing. Registered nurse Zoe wants nursing staff to work together to put a stop to working over shift
Updated: 5 December 2025 -
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Menopause passport: starting conversations at work
RCN health and safety rep Wendy is driving forward an initiative to get women experiencing menopause symptoms the workplace support they need.
Updated: 5 December 2025 -
Focus on: Women's Health Journals
Excited for the RCN Women’s Health Conference? Whether you’re joining in London or following from afar, we’ve selected top open-access, peer-reviewed journals for you.
Updated: 6 December 2025 -
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Pat Cullen: ‘Your determination has been an inspiration’
After an historic year leading the world’s largest nursing union, RCN General Secretary & Chief Executive Pat Cullen addressed members at our annual conference, sharing her reflections on the courage of staff to take strike action and her commitment to campaign for safe nurse staffing ratios
Updated: 6 December 2025 -
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Scenes from the pandemic: 'I don't want people to forget what the NHS went through'
Retired nurse and artist Karen felt compelled to document what she saw during the pandemic.
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Royal College of Nursing responds to resident doctors' vote
Responding to the announcement that resident doctors in England have voted in favour of industrial action, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said that nursing staff are similarly voting in strong numbers and telling the government to go faster in repairing a damaged N...
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'The biggest threat to safety is having too few nurses', Royal College of Nursing responds to Dr Penny Dash's review into patient safety
Taking a match to independent organisations designed to protect the public is a high-risk move when things are still so unsafe for patients and tens of thousands of nursing posts lie vacant, said RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger.
Updated: 6 December 2025
