Blogs
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blog posts
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4 Mar 2024
Time to stand up for our rights and our futures
Regional Director Estephanie Dunn on where we stand on pay in the North West.
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29 Feb 2024
‘Delivering transformational change won’t always be easy or comfortable’
RCN President Sheila Sobrany outlines the work we’re undertaking to realise our ambition to become the truly representative union our diverse profession demands and deserves.
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29 Feb 2024
Nurses supporting social care staff and residents’ wellbeing through gardening and gardens
The Elsie Wagg Innovation Scholarship funded by the Queen’s Nursing Institute and the National Garden Scheme gave us the opportunity to deliver a project that showed the positive effects of gardening on the health and well-being of social care staff and residents. Additionally, the project emphasised the role of nurses in health promotion and helping people to live and age well. Furthermore, it showed how we found a common ground in gardening, which created a meaningful connection between my nursing colleagues, social care staff, residents and I.
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29 Feb 2024
Listening event on the Hughes report publication
The Hughes report follows a review by Baroness Cumberlege (‘First do no harm’ 2020), commissioned by Mr Jeremy Hunt when he was Health Minister, that separately reviewed outcomes of three historical health interventions - pelvic mesh, sodium valproate & Primodos. One of the outcomes from the Cumberlege report was to appoint a Patient Safety Commissioner who would take forward the recommendations from the Cumberlege review.
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28 Feb 2024
The dream of true recognition for our profession.
Introducing our new NW Professional Nursing Committee Rep.
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28 Feb 2024
Gaslight
This blog has been submitted by a member who wishes to remain anonymous, for reasons that will become clear as you read it. Bullying is a common phenomenon for nurses, with around a quarter of the nursing family experiencing bullying in the past year. This blog highlights my personal experience of “gaslighting” - a specific type of bullying, and how I am gradually recovering from this.
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28 Feb 2024
Do you ever wonder what your RCN South West Regional Board does?
As your South West RCN Regional Board Chair, I wanted to share key messages from our Board meeting this month. Did you know that all RCN members in the South West can attend the open part of the board meeting via MS teams and participate in the discussions?
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22 Feb 2024
Male Factor Fertility publication
This blog explores the recent publication from the Fertility Nursing Forum focusing on male factor fertility. We also focus on the collaboration of specialist team members to write the document.
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21 Feb 2024
History of Nursing Forum volunteers receive the Wikimedia UK, Partnership of the Year Award
History of Nursing Forum volunteers for the 'Women in Red’ project, which uploads nursing history to the Wikipedia website, received the above award at the annual Wikimedia UK community on-line meeting in November 2023.
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21 Feb 2024
Celebrating Mental Health Nurses’ Day
The Royal College of Nursing’s Mental Health Forum wants to acknowledge and thank all mental health nursing staff across the UK and beyond for everything they do to support the care, treatment, and recovery of people from all walks of life.
