Blogs
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2 Oct 2024
How much has changed since Mary Seacole?
Black History Month - Has the issue of racial discrimination in nursing improved in the last 150 years?
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1 Oct 2024
Diabetes and the digital dawn: A nurse's guide to new technology
In this blog, Tamsin Fletcher-Salt, a diabetes and endocrine nurse team leader and Clinical Diabetes Nurse Specialist discusses technology and its impact on providing diabetes care in contemporary practice.
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1 Oct 2024
Teepa Snow
Sandra Blade and Jo Roche attended the Teepa Snow sessions recently. Teepa Snow is an American dementia care specialist and an occupation therapist. Read their blog to learn more.
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27 Sep 2024
Raising the voice of nursing in the COVID-19 Inquiry
Content warning: please be aware that the following content contains details of the impact of COVID-19 on nursing staff
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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.
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25 Sep 2024
Celebrating our Nursing Workforce Standards Champions
Michelle Raddings, Yorkshire & the Humber region IHSC lead nurse reflects on the recent Nursing Workforce Standards Champions awards and celebration event.
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25 Sep 2024
Come along to your local branch AGM!
Regional Director Sarah Dodsworth highlights the importance of branch AGMs and why they are a great way for members to get more involved in their branch.
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18 Sep 2024
Lord Darzi's review and the need to invest in the health of our children
Daniel Gooding, RCN Children and Young People’s Acute Care Forum Chair and a paediatric charge nurse, reflects on what the Darzi review tells us about the deteriorating state of children and young people’s health and the need for investment.
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17 Sep 2024
Corridor care must be eradicated, not normalised
It’s World Patient Safety Day, and as winter approaches Colin Poolman outlines why the unsafe practice of ‘corridor care’ must come to an end.
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17 Sep 2024
RCN Bladder & Bowel Forum Conference 2024
Join us at the RCN's Bladder and Bowel Forum Conference 2024. Bladder and bowel continence is a fundamental aspect central to all of us and our dignity. For those who experience bladder and bowel leakage (incontinence) accessing healthcare advice, education and treatment is critical to ensure symptoms are improved wherever possible and well managed where cure is not possible.
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