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Stewards' Pocketbook
This Pocketbook is designed to be used alongside the Stewards’ Handbook. It provides RCN stewards with key headlines, actions and checklists along with link to where you can find more information.
Updated: 13 March 2023 -
Investing in Patient Safety and Outcomes
Addressing workforce shortages and ensuring that there are the right numbers of registered nurses and nursing staff with the right skills in the right place at the right time is vital to ensure everyone can access safe and effective health and care services. This report highlights how successive UK ...
Updated: 1 April 2023 -
Work-related Stress
This resource is for RCN learning reps, safety reps and stewards to help support members who are experiencing work-related stress.
Updated: 13 March 2023 -
Neurodiversity: Supporting neurodivergent members and creating inclusive workplaces
This resource is for RCN learning reps, safety reps and stewards to help them to support neurodivergent members through individual support/representation and by taking steps to create a more inclusive workplace culture. The guidance draws on the real experiences of members, reps and staff and is int...
Updated: 13 March 2023 -
Flexible working
Flexible working can help everyone to strike a balance between the demands of employment and responsibilities outside of work, enabling ways of working that help you work at your best. This pocket guide will give RCN reps a quick overview of the benefits of flexible working and information to share ...
Updated: 13 March 2023 -
Stewards' Handbook
This A4 Handbook provides guidance on supporting and representing members, improving the working lives of members, creating and building workplace relationships and what the work of a workplace steward involves. Please also see the Stewards’ Pocketbook.
Updated: 13 March 2023 -
Letter to Steve Barclay MP requesting formal pay negotiations
Letter to Steve Barclay MP requesting formal pay negotiations.
Updated: 17 April 2023 -
Universal screening versus Selective screening for DDH
This blog discusses what Developmental Hip Dysplasia (DDH) is and how universal screening versus selective screening may look like. In my role as a CNS in orthopaedics, universal screening will increase my workload but may identify many DDH infants in a more timely manner, which in the long run will...
Updated: 31 March 2025 -
Children and Young People’s Cardiac Nursing
This publication provides optimum standards for the nursing care of infants, children and young people with congenital heart disease. It includes recommendations for education and training, underpinned by competency frameworks and career pathways.
Updated: 24 December 2021 -
The evolving fracture neck of femur pathway
My blog highlights the journey and the evolving pathway of fractured neck of femur patients. It is relevant to orthopaedic, surgical nurses but also nurses as a whole who have cared for patients with fractured neck of femurs through the emergency phase, therapies stage and sometimes intensive care.
Updated: 5 April 2025
