Publications
RCN publications cover a wide range of topics varying from clinical guidance to employment relations issues to advice on bullying.
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12 May 2017
Safe and Effective Staffing: the Real Picture
Publication Code : 006195This report provides an important contribution to the conversation on nurse staffing levels and to patient safety in health care. It contains two new datasets: assessments by Directors of Nursing of the state of the UK’s health systems and its workforce, and data on nurse staff vacancies in Trusts in England specifically.
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27 Apr 2017
RCN Respect Charter
Publication Code : 006214The RCN Respect Charter outlines how all RCN stakeholders including staff, members and customers, regardless of their role, must approach working with each other at all times.
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24 Apr 2017
RCN Council’s report to members on Congress 2016
Publication Code : 006022This report details the wide range of work, across all four countries of the UK, which hastaken place as a result of the debates in Glasgow last year.
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13 Apr 2017
Annual Report 2016
Publication Code : 005871Combined RCN Group annual report and consolidated financial accounts for year ended 31 December 2016.
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18 Nov 2016
Valuing older workers
Publication Code : 005696A 10 step action plan for working in partnership to create a learning culture that supports staff who work later in life
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21 Oct 2016
The UK nursing labour market review 2016
Publication Code : 005779This is the 2016 report providing a review of the UK nursing labour market, looking at recent data and trends for nursing staff working in the health sector across the UK, drawing out differences, similarities and challenges across the four UK countries.
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30 Sep 2016
Agency nursing under the microscope
Publication Code : 005801The RCN and HCL Nursing explore the dependence on agency nursing in the UK and the view of agency nurses themselves.
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30 Sep 2016
Staff Side Evidence to the NHS Pay Review Body 2017-18
Publication Code : 005802Evidence submitted to the NHS Pay review body. Also see RCN Evidence to the NHS Pay Review Body (publication code 005 803)
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30 Sep 2016
RCN Evidence to the NHS Pay Review Body 2017-18
Publication Code : 005803This submission accompanies the evidence presented by Staff Side (publication code 005 802) and supports the key recommendations made in the report. It also makes some additional observations and recommendations based on the findings from our own research.
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22 Jun 2016
Positive and proactive care
Publication Code : 005459Nurses deal with practical, ethical and moral dilemmas of restriction and restraint. This new publication, emerging from a series of RCN roadshows in 2014-15, presents the opportunity to educate nurses and nursing staff about the impact of regularly being involved in restriction/restraint and the toll this takes on their psychological wellbeing.
