Blogs
Read the latest opinions from the RCN in Wales
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10 Aug 2021
The difference between mental health and wellbeing and mental illness and stigma
Health and social care have been rocked to the core by the pandemic and we know the long-term effects of COVID-19 are only just being realised.
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22 Jul 2021
3% - really?
RCN Wales’ Associate Director of Nursing Nicky Hughes reacts to the Welsh Government’s long-awaited NHS pay award announcement
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6 Jul 2021
Join one of the RCN’s many nursing communities
Find out how you can make a vital contribution to the professional voice of the RCN – and meet like-minded nurses
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13 May 2021
Are Mental Health Crisis Services in Crisis?
This Mental Health Awareness Week Jenifer French, RCN Wales' Mental Health and Learning Disability Adviser, explores whether mental health services are in crisis
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26 Mar 2021
Out of sight and out of mind
It’s time to make fundamental changes to how secondary and specialist mental health and learning disability services are delivered in Wales
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11 Mar 2021
How will you get involved in the #FairPayForNursing campaign?
Nicky Hughes, RCN Wales Associate Director of Nursing (Employment Relations), talks about nursing pay - and the simple actions our members can take to get involved in the RCN's #FairPayForNursing campaign.
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5 Mar 2021
Meet Richard Jones MBE, Chair of the RCN Wales Board
Richard Jones MBE, newly-elected Chair of the RCN Wales Board, shares his vision for the next two years
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16 Feb 2021
RCN Valuing Nursing Week
Nicky Hughes, Associate Director of Nursing (Employment Relations), RCN Wales, talks about the RCN Valuing Nursing Week, which runs from 15 - 19 February 2021
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9 Feb 2021
How we are fighting to keep you safe
Since the start of the pandemic the RCN has been demanding that nurses, nursing support workers and nursing students are kept safe in whatever work setting they practice.
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18 Jan 2021
Reclaim Blue Monday to be Mindful Monday
This year is our chance to tell the PR industry who use Blue Monday to promote products, be that, holidays or a variety of wellbeing products that we intend to rename this depressing day as “Mindful Monday”.