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Legal support
From the nursing legal experts
Updated: 1 June 2023 -
Practice Supervision
Practice Supervision
Updated: 12 January 2024 -
Practice-based learning
Expand your knowledge about the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s education standards and how they will change practice-based learning, assessment and supervision.
Updated: 4 February 2025 -
Failing nurse recruitment and huge rise in early leavers creating ‘perfect storm for patient safety’, warns Royal College of Nursing
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: "Today’s figures are bad news for patients. Nurse recruitment is slowing, the numbers of new starters is falling and we are witnessing a devastating increase in people leaving within five years of joining."
Updated: 16 August 2025 -
Innovations from around the UK
Innovations from around the UK
Updated: 11 May 2024 -
Huge increase in nurses quitting early in ‘perfect storm’ for patient care, as RCN warns NHS reforms at risk
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “Nursing is an incredible career, and it should be one for life, but thousands are quitting early because they are burnt out, underpaid and demoralised. It is a perfect storm for ministers as thousands leave the profession early...
Updated: 11 April 2025 -
Just About to Graduate
This booklet is a helpful guide for nursing students about to graduate and embark on their nursing career. It contains information on getting on the NMC register, preceptorship, revalidation and how the RCN can support members.
Updated: 17 August 2021 -
Raising Concerns
This document has been developed to help registered nurses identify and communicate concerns about issues which may impact on their ability to deliver safe, effective, and compassionate care to patients, service users and clients in their care and/or within their area of responsibility.
Updated: 15 June 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 -
New data on nurses and nursing students in Scotland underlines scale of workforce crisis
RCN Scotland has renewed its call for an urgent nursing retention strategy to attract new people to and keep more experienced nurses in the profession.
Updated: 19 July 2024
