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Dementia_awareness
Nurses across all specialties should have an understanding of dementia
19 May 2017
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Mary Quirke

Nurses spoke of the hardships faced by their patients since the disability living allowance was replaced with the PIP system.

19 May 2017
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Beverley Baker

RCN passes safeguarding resolution at congress.

19 May 2017
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Alison Upton

Nurses shared their personal stories during an RCN congress debate on whether there should be tougher sanctions against people who attack NHS staff.

18 May 2017
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Students at RCN congress fringe event hear how working in military and international aid roles ‘will change you’.

18 May 2017
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Chocolate buttons

Mental health nurses discuss some surprising activities to manage stress, including chopping wood, riding motorbikes and melting chocolate buttons in your hand

18 May 2017
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Tim Farron

The Liberal Democrats party has pledged that it will introduce measures to improve mental healthcare in its general election manifesto.

17 May 2017
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Nurses need to be ‘knocking on the door’ to ensure their voices are heard in NHS transformation plans, an RCN congress fringe event heard.

17 May 2017
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Modern slavery

RCN's new pocket guide advising nurses on how to identify and raise concerns about modern slavery will be sent to nursing staff across the UK

17 May 2017
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nurse directors

More support is needed to retain nurse directors in their posts and avoid them becoming scapegoats, an RCN congress fringe event heard.

16 May 2017
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Nurses need to be ‘professionally curious’ to help identify adult survivors of child sexual abuse.

16 May 2017
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Janet Youd

Members call on RCN to lobby for specialist places of safety to replace A&Es for people who pose risk to themselves or others. 

16 May 2017

Frailty is not about age but is a physical condition, and nurses can access a wide variety of learning tools on the RCNi website, a fringe event at congress heard.

16 May 2017
Calls for ‘systematic re-banding’ of jobs under Agenda for Change
16 May 2017

Nurses describe encounters with desperately ill asylum seekers and call for more awareness of their needs.

16 May 2017

Duke of Cambridge spends morning with young patients at Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.

16 May 2017
Theresa May accused of showing 'contempt' for nurses
16 May 2017

A motion calling for a reduction in clinical placement hours for nursing students was defeated at RCN congress.

16 May 2017

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