Publications
RCN publications cover a wide range of topics varying from clinical guidance to employment relations issues to advice on bullying. To reproduce RCN publications please complete the copyright request form and we’ll be in touch.
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20 Nov 2017
Competences: an education and training competence framework for administering medicines intravenously to children and young people
Publication Code : 006302This education and training competence framework for administering medicines intravenously to children and young people was first published in 2005. It has been revised in 2017 to reflect a number of current political and professional issues and initiatives. The framework describes the theoretical and practical competences and overall indicative content for education and training programmes for administering medicines intravenously to children and young people.
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17 Nov 2017
Creating a Strategic Focus to Support the Prevention of Infection
Publication Code : 006602This statement outlines the RCN’s position on priorities for action to support improvements in the preventing infection within health and care settings to accompany revision of the UK strategy on antimicrobial resistance.
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15 Nov 2017
Essential Practice for Infection Prevention and Control
Publication Code : 005940The prevention and management of infection is the responsibility of all staff working in health and social care and is an integral element of patient safety programmes. This updated publication provides important information and guidance on the essential principles of infection prevention and control and highlights why other issues, such as nutrition and hydration, should be viewed as an essential complementary component of nursing practice.
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15 Nov 2017
IPC. Information and learning resources for health care staff
Publication Code : 005499Infection prevention and control (IPC) practice is an essential component of health and social care, and policy and guidance is constantly evolving. Research helps to inform the evidence base for this important area of nursing practice. This resource gives you guidance on how to search and find the relevant evidence-based information and guidance you may require to help keep your infection prevention knowledge and practice up-to-date.
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3 Nov 2017
Understanding Benchmarking
Publication Code : 006333Updated 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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3 Nov 2017
Managing Unacceptable Behaviour
Publication Code : 006272This new publication outlines how RCN staff, reps and members should approach working with each other. It highlights what steps will be taken when the standards aren’t met; provides guidance for reps who are subjected to unacceptable behaviour; and outlines what support is available to them.
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25 Oct 2017
Healthy Workplace Toolkit for an Agency Workforce
Publication Code : 006120This 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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19 Oct 2017
The Value of Reps: In Our Own Words
Publication Code : 006238This book showcases the work of RCN accredited representatives. In the summer of 2017, a group of reps from all four corners of the UK were invited to share their experiences and feelings. This book features their stories, told in their own words. One half of the book focuses on the many ways in which reps help members and organisations, while the other half looks at how being a rep has changed their own lives for the better.
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11 Oct 2017
RCN Ethical Impact Assessment Tool
Publication Code : 006499This 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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1 Oct 2017
Key messages from the RCN’s response to the NMC consultations on pre-registration standards and education
Publication Code : 006505This is a summary of key messages from the RCN's response to a series of NMC consultations (publication code 006447). These consultations focus on changes to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Standards to ensure future nurses are fit for practice at the point of registration.
