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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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Annual report and consolidated accounts 2009-10
Annual report highlighting key areas and achievements in the RCN's work during the financial year 2009-10, and focuses on the contribution made by members and staff to deliver a better deal for nurses and for patients. The report reviews the year's events. Includes the Report of Council and the full financial accounts for the review period.
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Tuppence for the doctor, penny for the nurse
Publication using extracts from interviews and the RCN Archives photographic collection to bring to life the experiences of nurses working in the community throughout the 20th century.
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Personal protective equipment: Use and availability during the COVID-19 pandemic
Findings from the RCN's online survey of nursing staff on the issues relating to personal protective equipment (PPE) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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PPE - are you safe?
Is the PPE you've been given safe? A flow chart including escalation steps if you have concerns.
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Government indecision means nursing staff facing postcode lottery in PPE protection
Dame Donna Kinnair, Chief Executive and General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing said: “The Government’s silence on this issue is creating a postcode lottery for nursing staff whereby some working on wards have access to the higher-grade face masks and others do not."