Nurse-to-patient ratios: what are they and how could they work in practice?

Hear from Linda Silas Linda Silas on how nursing staff in Canada have made this a reality.

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Immunisations are a critical element of preventative care. Nursing staff play an important role in the administration of vaccinations as well as advising & promoting their importance.

Access resources & build your knowledge for World Immunisation Week: bit.ly/3W8sv27

🚨 More than a year since the pledge was made to cut waiting lists, millions are still suffering in pain.

Rather than patting itself on the back, government must produce a fair pay offer for nursing to stablise the workforce and bring down lists.

More: bit.ly/3Q2nsMT

87% of our members said that their pay band doesn't reflect their knowledge, skills, education and current level of responsibility.

A separate pay spine would address this and give nursing the fresh start needed to recruit and retain enough staff to deliver safe patient care.

Our 2024 Last Shift Survey closes on 1 April. We're asking about staffing levels on your last shift and what impact they had on patient care so that, together, we can campaign for change. bit.ly/437QK1V #SafeStaffingSavesLives

We need your input in the development of our equity, diversity & inclusion strategy.

RCN Diversity and Equalities Co-ordinator Wendy Irwin explains why she wants ALL members to complete the survey and get involved.

Take the survey today: surveys.rcn.org.uk/s/equity-diver…

Featuring our very own pat cullen. Well deserved particularly as she represents an organisation of 100s of thousands of amazing women. independent.co.uk/news/long_read…

Importance of Nursing Workforce Standards Lena #RCNREPS24

Nursing is a safety critical profession- RCN's Chief Nurse, Prof Nicola Ranger, on setting nurse-patient ratios.

Nursing is special - let's use the evidence we have to make changes Prof Jane Ball (FRCN)💙 RCN South West

And conference gets started. Opened by Phil Cole and Lucy Munchina.

Fair pay and safestaffing go hand in hand - Prof Nicola Ranger on safestaffing #RCNREPS24 Prof Jane Ball (FRCN)💙

Excellent keynote speech from pat cullen #RCNreps24
Bristol welcomes you-lots to learn together on these two days.

Making a keynote speech at #RCNreps24 pat cullen tells the conference that each and every steward, learning rep and health and safety rep is important to the RCN’s success.

'In this election year, let's open the biggest public and political conversation about the value of nursing.'

Join the movement to value nursing and protect patients.

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It shouldn't have come to this: NHS nurses suffering shocking violence from patients, and the government is failing to even acknowledge the issue.

This must be treated as a priority - read the full response from our Director of Nursing Nicola Ranger: bit.ly/4aC0Prr

A big final push to submit an Agenda Item for The RCN #Congress24 . Branch chairs and secretaries, please push to your members! Comment, like & RT Deadline: 5th Jan!
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RCN Dorset RCN Brighton & Hove Branch rcn.org.uk/congress/Submi…

#safestaffing
We have the evidence. We don’t need to keep proving that not having enough RNs is dangerous.
It’s time to act, to safeguard nursing for the benefit of all patients. youtu.be/snTnciZxLQU?si…

Overseas staff make up a significant part of the nursing workforce in the social care sector, and much more needs to be done to prevent their exploitation.

We continue to fight for our members affected by this, but sadly the findings of the #BBCPanorama investigation are deeply…

Congratulations, Harry Hayes. Look forward to working with you.