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The Value of Reps: In Our Own Words
This book showcases the work of RCN accredited representatives. In the summer of 2017, a group of reps from all four corners of the UK were invited to share their experiences and feelings. This book features their stories, told in their own words. One half of the book focuses on the many ways in which reps help members and organisations, while the other half looks at how being a rep has changed their own lives for the better.
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Healthy Workplace Toolkit for an Agency Workforce
This essential RCN toolkit provides a clear framework for employment agencies and host organisations, both in the NHS and the independent sector, to address the issues identified by the agency nursing workforce and provide a healthy and safe working environment for staff and the patients they care for. The toolkit also supports individual nursing staff carrying out agency work to meet their responsibilities to practise safely.
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RCN Ethical Impact Assessment Tool
This RCN ethical impact assessment tool will help you decide on a course of action or planning a piece of work by answering a series of questions.
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Understanding Benchmarking
Updated guidance that explains the advantages of benchmarking, provides a model of benchmarking to help get you started and includes an example of benchmarking in practice.
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Guidance on pin site care
This publication is under review and is due to be republished early 2020. Publication produced as a result of the project and offers guidance for the practice of pin site care based on expert opinion.
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Making our voice heard
RCN Scotland is the voice of nursing. We represent nurses, nursing students and health care support workers. We promote excellence in practice and influence Scottish Government policies.
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Royal College of Nursing responds to YouGov survey showing a majority of the public support nursing staff taking industrial action
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: "A lifetime of service must never mean a lifetime of poverty. This real-terms pay cut for our members is a national disgrace."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to FT reports on public sector pay awards next week
Responding to reports in the FT on public sector pay awards next week, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “Millions of optimistic workers will be hoping these crushing reports are entirely inaccurate. Their work and current personal hardship warrants better from government."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to NHS pay award
Responding to the Government’s announcement of this year’s NHS pay award, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “This is a grave misstep by ministers. With this low award, the government is misjudging the mood of nursing staff and the public too."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to Health and Social Care Committee's report on the health and care workforce
Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: “The findings of the Committee show in the starkest of detail the workforce crisis across the whole of health and social care in England. That persistent understaffing in all care settings poses a serious risk to staff and patient safety should shock ministers into action."