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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16 May 2017
Safe Staffing Postcard
Publication Code : 006184Postcard for safe staffing survey. What were staffing levels like the last time you were at work?
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12 May 2017
Standards for Assessing, Measuring and Monitoring Vital Signs in Infants, Children and Young People
Publication Code : 005 942The monitoring and measurement of vital signs and clinical assessment are core essential skills for all health care practitioners working with infants, children and young people. This guidance applies to professionals who work in acute care settings, as well as those who work in GP surgeries, walk-in clinics, telephone advice and triage services, schools and other community settings.
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12 May 2017
Standards for the Weighing of Infants, Children and Young People in the Acute Health Care Setting.
Publication Code : 006 135Publication outlining the RCN's position in relation to the weighing of infants, children and young people and includes guidance on preparing them for weighing, timing and frequency of measurement, record keeping and auditing and benchmarking.
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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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12 May 2017
Protection of Nurses Working with Children and Young People
Publication Code : 006153This guidance aims to raise awareness among nurses and their managers of the complex issues surrounding safeguarding in the context of relationships between nurses and children and young people. We include the age range of 0-18 (up to 25 years in line SEND reforms) in this definition and also advocate the need for special consideration in view of children and young people who may have a disability, or other need that affects their mental capacity to make decisions. This guidance concentrates on allegations of abuse made against staff eg, smacking a child, inappropriate physical contact.
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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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25 Apr 2017
Nursing through time
Publication Code : 005736Nursing through time is a series of 12 cards which chart developments in nursing from the last 150 years, using key facts and historical images, many taken from the RCN archives.
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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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20 Jan 2017
Integrating health and social care across the UK: toolkit for nursing leaders
Publication Code : 005910New RCN UK-wide toolkit for members working in strategic decision-making roles or involved in forums around integrated care. The toolkit has a series of themed prompt questions for reflection and action. It will support members to provide confident nursing leadership to shape, deliver and monitor safe, quality and local integrated services.
