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Blogs

Read the latest opinions from the RCN in Wales



22 blog posts
  • Balloons spelling "Yr Hangout" in window Dr Lisa Cordery Dr Lisa Cordery 26 Sep 2024

    Impact matters in health care

    Impact matters in health care. On the face of it, this seems like such an obvious statement. Of course it matters; it’s why we do what we do. It’s only when we stop to think of human experiences that the word ‘impact’ is meaningful.

  • school nurse Majella Kavanagh Majella Kavanagh 11 Jul 2024

    A focus on school nursing in Wales

    Majella shares the work the RCN Wales independent sector and community advisers have been doing with school nurses in Wales.

  • rcn wales library Katrina Hall Katrina Hall 3 Jul 2024

    RCN Wales Library for independent health and social care

    How RCN Wales members working in the independent health and social care (IHSC) sector can make use of all that our library and information service has to offer.

  • Networking Pam Penman Pam Penman 2 May 2024

    The power of connection

    Pam shares how the RCN has been working to connect our members across independent health and social care in Wales.

  • Hospital bed Sandy Harding Sandy Harding 12 Feb 2024

    Bed 19

    Sandy shares how her daughter was referred to as her bed number throughout her hospital stay and discusses the importance of communication in patient care.

  • Matthew Tovey Matthew Tovey Matthew Tovey 19 Jan 2024

    Bringing festive cheer to Wales’s most vulnerable

    Homeless outreach nurse, Matthew Tovey, shows what can be achieved when a community pulls together to bring a little Christmas spirit to the most vulnerable in society.

  • Tara Rees Tara Rees 18 Jan 2024

    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.

  • Day of persons with disabilities Leanne Evans Leanne Evans 3 Dec 2023

    “It is essential when working with children with additional needs that they are given a voice”

    Leanne Evans, a nursing team leader at a special school tells us how awareness of and support for disabilities has changed for the better.

  • Pam Penman Pam Penman 17 Nov 2023

    The benefits of a roundtable discussion - and a care home provider success story

    Why independent sector nursing staff should attend our roundtable discussions - and how one care home provider successfully negotiated funding for their health care support workers to study nursing with the Open University while continuing employment in their workplace.

  • Neil James Neil James 1 Nov 2023

    How becoming a Learning Disability Nurse really can exceed your expectations

    Did I know what a career in learning disability nursing would be like? Did I know the rewards it would bring and what I could achieve before I started over 26 years ago?