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Publications

RCN publications cover a wide range of topics varying from clinical guidance to employment relations issues to advice on bullying. To reproduce RCN publications please complete the copyright request form and we’ll be in touch.



  • 6 Apr 2016

    RCN Northern Ireland Manifesto for the 2016 Northern Ireland Assembly elections

    Publication Code : 005596

    The health care priorities RCN Northern Ireland believes all political parties must address in the 2016 Northern Ireland Assembly elections.

  • 22 Feb 2016

    Connect for Change

    Publication Code : 005525

    Publication report about the care and support for people with learning disabilities and their families, including recommendations to address the issues highlighted.

  • 12 Feb 2016

    Building capacity to care and capability to treat

    Publication Code : 005500

    Consultation briefing provides a summary of the proposal for a new nursing associate role and will support members in formalising their views during the consultation process.

  • 10 Feb 2016

    RCN Mentorship Project 2015

    Publication Code : 005455

    An executive summary of the RCN Mentorship Project 2015. The full report is RCN Mentorship Project 2015. From Today’s Support in Practice to Tomorrow’s Vision for Excellence (publication code 005454) and relates to the Bazian report: Rapid Evidence Review (publication code 005472).

  • 9 Feb 2016

    The Role of the Designated Nurse for Safeguarding Children and Young People in England

    Publication Code : 005446

    This position statement aims to clarify the role and responsibilities of the Designated Nurse for Safeguarding Children.

  • 1 Feb 2016

    The value and contribution of nursing to public health in the UK

    Publication Code : 005497

    This is a full report on the project led by the RCN in 2015 to assess the impact and contribution that nurses make to public health.

  • 20 Jan 2016

    Response to student bursaries

    Publication Code : 005445 ISBN : 9781910672440

    Responses to student bursaries collected by contributors during November and December 2015.

  • 15 Jan 2016

    Improving patient outcomes by improving staff health and wellbeing

    Publication Code : 005450

    Publication for directors of nursing who want to improve the health and wellbeing of the workforce and, subsequently, patient outcomes.

  • 16 Dec 2015

    RCN Library and Archive Services - Five Year Plan 2016-2020

    Publication Code : 005429

    Publication outlining the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Library and Archive Service Five Year Plan.

  • 24 Nov 2015

    Industrial action by other unions

    Publication Code : 004745

    Occasions may arise where RCN members are employed in a workplace where colleagues in other unions are involved in industrial action. This paper outlines the position of those RCN members in respect of the particular action, and advises what approaches they should take relating to their own contract of employment, while ensuring that they do not undermine the lawful industrial action taken by trade union colleagues.