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Safeguarding Children and Young People: Roles and Competencies for Healthcare Staff
To protect children and young people from harm, and help improve their wellbeing, all healthcare staff must have the competencies to recognise child maltreatment, opportunities to improve childhood wellbeing, and to take effective action as appropriate to their role. This is a web only publication.
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Time and Space. Enabling defusing activities leaflet
Making time for nursing teams to defuse after challenging or difficult situations can support their psychological wellbeing and enhance their self care and management. It can also help to sustain a workforce and reinforce teamwork while providing a perfect opportunity to share success and positive experiences. This leaflet, developed by the RCN Nursing in Justice and Forensic Health Care Forum, aims to provide tips and activities to help nurses facilitate and benefit from defusing sessions. This leaflet has been sponsored by Liverpool Victoria.
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An Integrated Career and Competency Framework for Children and Young People’s Endocrine Nurse Specialists
Children’s endocrinology covers a wide range of illnesses and disorders, varying from minor disorders to severe life-threatening conditions. The need for specialist children’s endocrine services is paramount, and it is suggested that patients would benefit from the care provided by specialist children’s endocrine nurses. This framework has been designed to help guide endocrine nurse specialists with decisions and inform appropriate care of a child or young person and their family.
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The RCN in Numbers 2019 (English version)
This briefing is designed to provide a statistical overview of the strengths and vulnerabilities of the nursing workforce in in Wales. (English version)
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Brexit: Royal College of Nursing priorities overview
This updated publication contains a set of Brexit scorecards assessing the progress made in the UK and in the EU negotiations to address the significant areas of EU policy, law, joint agencies and funding programmes relating to nursing and health and care issues.
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An RCN Toolkit for School Nurses: Supporting your practice to deliver services for children and young people in educational settings
The RCN recognises the importance and value of school nurses working in all educational settings. This toolkit will support school nurses in developing their roles in practice, management and leadership to improve health outcomes for children and young people in the school environment. It is aimed at school nurses and commissioners of school nursing services to provide guidance on the scope of the school nursing role. It is relevant across mainstream, independent and boarding schools, providing links to the evidence underpinning the benefits of school nursing provision.
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Standing up for patient and public safety
This report describes the lack of clear roles, responsibilities and accountability for workforce planning and supply in England. In reality, this means that the health and care workforce is not growing in line with increasing population need for health and care services, and there are large numbers of vacant posts throughout the system. This impacts upon patient safety and outcomes, and leads to a challenging working environment for staff. To resolve this, we make the case for this to be resolved through legislation, alongside additional investment in the nursing workforce and a national health and care workforce strategy for England. The RCN is clear, it is no longer the time to be discussing whether legislation is needed, instead, we should also be focussed on how we go about securing these necessary changes in law.
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Parity of Esteem poster
There are lots of small, but impactful changes you can make in the workplace to help make parity reality.
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Restrictive physical interventions and the clinical holding of children and young people
Guidance for nursing staff. This updated Royal College of Nursing guidance sets out children’s and young people’s rights concerning restrictive physical intervention and clinical holding in health care settings within a legal, moral and ethical framework.
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Responding to climate change
As a UK-wide organisation, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) recognises that climate change undermines the very foundations of our health.