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A new dawn for nursing: 2023-2027
Our five-year strategy aims to inspire, champion and support the nursing community to deliver the best possible care.
Updated: 14 October 2023 -
Branches
South East branches hold regular meeting and events so get in touch and find out more.
Updated: 5 August 2025 -
How we work
As both a trade union and a professional body, we work to support our members in a wide variety of ways.
Updated: 9 August 2025 -
Focus on: trauma and orthopaedic journals
Looking to build on insights from the RCN Trauma and Orthopaedic Nursing Conference? Explore these journals to support your practice and research, and take your learning further.
Updated: 5 December 2025 -
BRIEFING: RCN Employment Survey 2025: Scotland summary
The RCN Employment Survey, which runs every two years, is a significant barometer of how our members feel in their jobs. Wherever they work – NHS or the independent health and social care sectors – the survey gives our members the opportunity to tell us what it is really like in nursing at the momen...
Updated: 5 December 2025 -
POLICY: NHS Delivery - a new national delivery organisation to lead transformation across our health and social care system
RCN Scotland response to the Scottish Government consultation on NHS Delivery - a new national delivery organisation to lead transformation across our health and social care system
Updated: 5 December 2025 -
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...
Updated: 5 December 2025 -
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 -
magazines
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
