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‘Just’ Anxiety?’ - Mental Health Awareness Week 2023
Jenifer French, RCN Wales Mental Health and Learning Disability Nurse Adviser, talks us through this year's focus for Mental Health Awareness week and stresses the need for those with severe mental illness to not be left behind.
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Improving equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace is everyone’s responsibility
As RCN Congress discusses how it can support and improve awareness of unconscious bias within health care, Kokila Swamynathan, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Inclusion and Diversity Manager and new RCN Wales Board member, reflects on her personal and professional experience of unconscious bias.
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What do learning disability nurses do?
Professor Ruth Northway OBE FRCN, Learning Disability Advisor at RCN Wales, tackles the lack of awareness around learning disability nursing.
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January is Love Your Liver awareness month
Tara Rees, lead nurse practitioner for the hepatology service at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and RCN Wales Nurse of the Year 2023, explains why better understanding of our liver and taking care of it is so important.
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Nursing staff call for a complete abolishment of corridor care
Today, members of the Royal College of Nursing have called for a complete abolishment of corridor care at the College’s annual Congress in Brighton.
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Letter from RCN to Steve Barclay following NHS Staff Council meeting
At today’s formal meeting of the NHS Staff Council, the representative of the Royal College of Nursing used our votes to reject the government’s pay offer of 16 March 2023
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the Strikes Bill
An RCN spokesperson said: “We continue to oppose this Bill which seeks to curtail the freedoms that workers have to stand up for their rights. The news that the Commons have rejected an amendment which would have prevented striking nursing staff facing dismissal is very disappointing. We call on the Lords to stand by the change they made."
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Treatment in corridors and waiting rooms ‘degrading’ for patients, say A&E nurses
The treatment of patients in inappropriate areas such as corridors and waiting rooms is increasingly common and compromises patient safety and dignity, emergency nurses have told the Royal College of Nursing.
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RCN members demand action to ensure nurses can better support victims of LGBTQ+ hate crime
RCN Diversity and Equalities Co-ordinator, Bruno Daniel, said: “The increase in LGBTQ+ hate crimes is deeply alarming but sadly is the reality faced by the UK’s LGBTQ+ community. The victims of homophobic or transphobic hate crimes are loved ones, colleagues, families, friends, and neighbours who may disclose their lived experiences to members of the nursing team when they are seeking care and treatment."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the latest NMC register data
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “These figures bear out our concerns over the failure to retain experienced staff. Thousands of nurses are leaving the profession early citing burnout, physical or mental health, and concerns about the quality of people’s care."
