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What is Congress?

RCN Congress is where members meet to learn, develop and share nursing practice.

Video: From RCN cadet to mental health nurse

Our nursing cadet scheme helped Luke on the road towards a rewarding career as a mental health nurse

The Right Sort of Women

RCN nursing founders

Nursing, Trauma and War

Defence nursing exhibition.

Out of the asylum

This exhibition explored the role of the largely untrained but often hardworking attendants in Victorian asylums, to the breadth of nursing roles across hospitals and community care today.

Once Upon a Time...

a history of children and young people's nursing

RCN publications

A page looking at the RCN publications

Historic printed collection

The RCN printed collection dates from 1614 and is made up of over 8,500 monographs, it is the most comprehensive collection of Nursing titles in Europe and includes 100 rare books.

Personal papers, diaries & service scrapbooks

This is a rich collection illustrating nurses' real lives and careers from 1822 to present. Nurses have been keen to preserve evidence of the professional lives with the RCN Archive by adding items such as diaries, lecture notebooks, working casebooks, professional written work, photographs, badges and medals, recordings, small artworks and other personal mementoes of an individual nursing career.