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Students: Thinking about your career
A helpful guide for nursing students when thinking about their future career.
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Connecting for Change: for the future of learning disability nursing
This publication explores contemporary issues concerning the field of learning disability nursing and sets out a series of recommendations and priorities that the UK government and devolved administrations need to address. It also identifies priorities for the RCN to take forward. In 2016, the RCN published Connect for Change highlighting the severe decline in Registered Nurses in Learning Disabilities and students and calling for urgent action to address this. This report, Connecting for Change, was published in 2021 raising further calls for support as the decline in registered nurses in learning disabilities had continued. The RCN is currently undertaking a UK-wide learning disability nursing review as we now have a workforce crisis in England. This review should be complete in Spring 2026. If you would like to share information for this review, please contact the RCN Learning Disability Nursing Forum
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Ask. Listen. Act. (2nd edition)
This second edition of Ask. Listen. Act has been revised following the launch of the RCN’s Nursing Workforce Standards in May 2021. A working group of RCN reps and staff came together to review the Nursing Workforce Standards. The overwhelming feeling was that they spell out the link between working conditions and patient care in a way that will help people understand trade union activity in a professional context. They can be used by reps and branches to start a conversation about what you experience in the workplace and to work proactively with members, other trade unions and senior managers to highlight and address system-wide issues.
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Congress Expense Claims
This is guidance around expense claims for funded members attending Congress 2021 in person.
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Ten Things to Say About Pay
Key talking points for members and the public on the urgent need for a 12.5% pay rise for nursing staff, as part of the RCN's Fair Pay for Nursing campaign
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Congress 2021 Guidance for Voting Members
This is guidance and useful information for voting members attending Congress 2021 either in person or online.
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RCN Employment Survey 2021
This report provides a summary of findings from a survey of RCN members which was undertaken in October 2021.
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UK Career Framework for Pain Nurses
* This resource is under review.* Pain is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon that does not discriminate and can affect anyone at any stage in their life time. The UK Career Framework for Pain Nurses was produced by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Pain and Palliative Care Forum with nursing representatives from across the United Kingdom. This updated resource now highlights the range of career pathways within pain nursing and minimum recommended education requirements, in addition to knowledge and skills. It provides a guide for pain services and employers to develop local career development frameworks for the nursing workforce.
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Facing COVID-19
This publication comprises of a number of case studies detailing the powerful and inspiring work that has been undertaken by our reps since the start of the pandemic.
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10 Unsustainable Pressures on the Health and Care System in England
Members of the RCN working across health and social care in England dispute statements that the current situation in health and care is sustainable. Action needs to be taken to retain as many nursing staff as possible in light of serious staffing vacancies, as well as high levels of exhaustion and burnout. On top of this, the system is currently dealing with the immediate challenge of rising COVID-19 cases, intensified pressures as winter approaches and clearing the growing backlog of undelivered care to people in need. The RCN has identified ten areas that currently demonstrate unsustainable, untenable conditions within the health and care system across England. All of these are reliant on nursing.
