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26 blog posts
  • Emma Hallam 800x400 Emma Hallam Emma Hallam 18 Sep 2023

    Job evaluation raises pay and reward for nursing support workers in Bristol

    In 2021 new job profiles were agreed by Staff Council, which includes the RCN and NHS Employers. The new profiles say that Band 2 staff should be undertaking tasks such as feeding, bathing, toileting, recording fluid balance and nutrition while any staff undertaking patient observations and clinical care such as monitoring heart and blood pressure rates, taking bloods, wound observation and urine analysis should be job evaluated to Band 3. This meant that many staff were entitled to a re-band.

  • Black History Month RCN logo - yellow, green and red background behind the three words and a white RCN logo over black paintbrush-style background Lucy Muchina Lucy Muchina 24 Aug 2023

    Black History Month

    I recently attended an internationally educated nurses’ (IEN) event and was truly inspired by the amazing talent of our IENs.

  • Lisa Tomlinson, North Tees Hospital TNA in the second Teesside University cohort Paige Barsby Paige Barsby 21 Jul 2023

    Growing the nursing workforce

    I’m a practice facilitator supporting trainee nursing associates (TNAs) in Somerset, and my focus is on expanding my university’s current placements for our TNAs into social care.

  • Grace Chukwurah at RCN Congress 2023 Grace Chukwurah Grace Chukwurah 21 Jun 2023

    A dream come true

    I used to see pictures of people attending events such as RCN Congress on social media as a young nurse newly arrived from Africa and wish that could be me one day. 

  • Woman wearing mask outside looking up at buildings Sarah Winfield-Davies Sarah Winfield-Davies 7 Jun 2023

    Bringing members together

    As the 2021 film Help highlighted, people working in care homes felt isolated and unsupported during the peak of the pandemic, especially at the beginning when they lacked even basic PPE to protect themselves and their residents. 

  • Matthew Stewart and the Gloucestershire Branch at Congress 2023 in Brighton Matthew Stewart Matthew Stewart 25 May 2023

    Passion successfully reignited for another year

    Congress is over for another year and what a Congress it was for me. As well as being immersed in Congress business, it was so nice to be on the south coast by the sea, have some down time to relax with colleagues and enjoy the sea air. 

  • Sarah Winfield-Davies 800x400 Sarah Winfield-Davies Sarah Winfield-Davies 11 May 2023

    Forever grateful for my YTS experience

    I’ve been a qualified nurse for 31 years. I originally wanted to be a policewoman, but I hated sixth form as all my friends had left school, so I left too and joined a Youth Training Scheme (YTS) working in a nursing home. 

  • Gloucestershire branch at Congress Matthew Stewart Matthew Stewart 13 Apr 2023

    Relighting my passion for nursing

    With about a month to go until RCN Congress it’s all systems go for me. 

  • Geoffrey Walker Geoffrey Walker 10 Dec 2022

    Farewell and thank you South West - you are the best

    Dear All At the RCN EGM on the 29 November a motion of no confidence was passed. Under RCN governance guidance this is not a binding decision. I have nonetheless decided to stand down from the position of Council member for the South West region and Chair of Dorset branch.

  • Six images of staff and members campaigning across the region, from Bristol to Dorset, including one with Board Chair Jeanette Jones, and another with a guest appearance from Patricia Marquis, RCN England Director, in Dorset with ex-Chair of Congress BJ Waltho and South West Council member Geoffrey Walker Geoffrey Walker Geoffrey Walker 18 Nov 2022

    Historic vote

    These are truly momentous times as RCN members have taken the decision to take strike action for the first time in our 106-year history. Here in the South West region there was an overwhelming vote for action by our members who clearly feel #EnoughIsEnough.

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