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26 Apr 2024
How can patient blood management help improve women's health and wellbeing?
In the UK iron deficiency anaemia in women of a childbearing age is considered a moderate public health risk by the World Health Organization. A goal was set to reduce this number by 50 per cent by 2025. Are we on track to meet that goal? What can we as nurses or midwives do to help?
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25 Apr 2024
Interconnected challenges
We may not be in the European Union, but the RCN is still very much part of the European nursing community. One way of ensuring this remains the case is through our membership of the European Federation of Nurses Associations (EFN).
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25 Apr 2024
Josef's Nursing Cadet Experience
Josef McGuigan, a Nursing Cadet, gives his experience as part of the scheme's first ever cohort in Northern Ireland.
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24 Apr 2024
Remembering Daphne Steele
The first blue plaque outside London has recently been unveiled and recognises a pioneering Black nurse and midwife, Daphne Steele.
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24 Apr 2024
Impacts of inter-professional student placements in care homes
NHS England TPEP funding gave us the opportunity to evaluate the impact of inter-professional student placements in care homes on staff and students' knowledge, skills, and personal development, and residents' experiences of their care.
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23 Apr 2024
Organ donation - critical care perspective
The system of organ donation changed in England (on 20 May 2020) to an opt out system. It is important for critical care colleagues to understand about the law change and what it means to your practice. Also, to know what support and resources are there to help you, when caring for potential donors and their families.
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22 Apr 2024
Safe staffing is vital to patient outcomes
Alison Paterson, Eastern member of the Professional Nursing Committee, talks about the RCN’s crucial work on safe staffing.
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19 Apr 2024
International Nurses' Day
Every year in May, the world gets the opportunity to recognise and celebrate the nursing profession. International Nurses’ Day falls on 12 May each year, to coincide with Florence Nightingale’s birthday.
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19 Apr 2024
How You can help Unions resolve Stress in the Workplace
April is Stress Awareness Month and to reflect on strategies for organising around stress, Ian Graham, RCN Health and Safety Rep for the East Midlands writes about his experience and frustrations dealing with excessive stress and how he and his co-workers organised their own risk assessment.
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10 Apr 2024
Professional Nursing Committee report from your South West member
It has been a busy start to the year in the Professional Nursing Committee (PNC).
