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CONSULTATION RESPONSE: Transformation of Health and Care in the Digital Single Market
RCN response to the European Commission's consultation on the transformation of health and care in the digital single market.
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CONSULTATION RESPONSE: Gender Identity Services for Adults
The RCN response to NHS England's consultation on gender identity services for adults.
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CONSULTATION RESPONSE: MAC Call for Evidence on EEA Immigration
RCN response to the Migration Advisory Committee's Call for Evidence on European Economic Area (EEA) and non-EEA migration.
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Black History Month
I recently attended an internationally educated nurses’ (IEN) event and was truly inspired by the amazing talent of our IENs.
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Get active – what does that even mean?
I became ‘RCN active’ in about 2013 but what does ‘get active’ even mean? Well, for me it's been a rollercoaster of a journey. A journey through which I have made life-long friends and made a difference to colleagues in my workplace and across the profession.
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Growing the nursing workforce
I’m a practice facilitator supporting trainee nursing associates (TNAs) in Somerset, and my focus is on expanding my university’s current placements for our TNAs into social care.
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Bringing all our members together
As the 2021 film Help highlighted, people working in care homes felt isolated and unsupported during the peak of the pandemic, especially at the beginning when they lacked even basic PPE to protect themselves and their residents.
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A dream come true
I used to see pictures of people attending events such as RCN Congress on social media as a young nurse newly arrived from Africa and wish that could be me one day.
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Vital members of the nursing team
As years fly by and the weighing scale needle refuses to move in the direction I’d like, I have made the decision to have regular checks with my GP in addition to daily activities to keep myself fit and healthy.
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Job evaluation raises pay and reward for nursing support workers in Bristol
In 2021 new job profiles were agreed by Staff Council, which includes the RCN and NHS Employers. The new profiles say that Band 2 staff should be undertaking tasks such as feeding, bathing, toileting, recording fluid balance and nutrition while any staff undertaking patient observations and clinical care such as monitoring heart and blood pressure rates, taking bloods, wound observation and urine analysis should be job evaluated to Band 3. This meant that many staff were entitled to a re-band.
