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75 years of the NHS - Nursing then and now
This blog reflects on the content of an issue of the Nursing Times from July 1948, days before the NHS was launched. The blog identifies some nursing issues from that year that remain current today e.g. pay, but also highlights areas of positive change within the profession i.e. it is more diverse.
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Annual Report 2018
The combined RCN Group Annual Report for 2018.
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Tracing Nurses
This blog promotes the latest version of the History of Forum's guide to tracing nurses. It includes a wide variety of sources for people researching family and local history.
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Health Care Support Workers Administering Inactivated Influenza, Shingles and Pneumococcal Vaccines for Adults and Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine (LAIV) for Children
The RCN recognises that nursing teams are key to the safe and effective administration of large numbers of vaccinations to those who need them. This guidance has been developed as a resource and framework for health care support workers who undertake vaccinations as part of their role.
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The Role of Nursing Associates in Vaccination and Immunisation
The RCN recognises that nursing teams are key to the safe and effective administration of large numbers of vaccinations to those who need them. The overriding principle is: health care professionals involved in the prescribing or administration of vaccines must be suitably competent and have the knowledge as well as the skills to ensure patient safety, and public trust in immunisation is maintained. In some clinical areas, it is likely that NAs will be involved in the delivery of the national immunisation programme.
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Maternity workforce survey report
This publication contains the full results of the scoping exercise exploring the employment and role-specific training and continuing professional development of registered nurses and unregistered support workers in maternity services in the UK. Please read in conjunction with the published report Nurses in maternity care: RCN report
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Nurses in maternity care: RCN report
This report has been produced from the analysis of a workforce survey designed to explore the employment and role-specific training and continuing professional development (CPD) of registered nurses and unregistered support staff working in maternity services across the UK. The report was informed by two documents, also now available online.
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Nurses in maternity care: Literature review
This is a literature review for the RCN’s Midwifery Forum project on the training and continuing professional development needs of registered nurses and unregistered support workers in maternity care.
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Nursing University Education in England
Member briefing on the impact of decreasing applications to nursing courses on safe and effective staffing. This briefing was updated on 23 December 2019.
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Staffing for safe and effective care: an opportunity to change the law now
RCN member briefing, Staffing for safe and effective care: an opportunity to change the law now.
