The Royal College of Nursing has launched a new website for members as part of an initiative designed to help tackle professional issues affecting nursing staff, and to highlight the skills and expertise required to be part of the profession.
This is nursing also aims to challenge the public’s perception of modern-day nursing. Adverts will appear on buses in towns and cities across the UK, promoting nursing as a highly skilled and caring role, and a profession that is both challenging and rewarding. This is nursing includes seven areas of work and members can read more about them on the new website. Commenting on the initiative, RCN president, Andrea Spyropoulos said: “The RCN wants to find new ways of ensuring that nothing stands in the way of good patient care – from removing unnecessary paperwork to tackling unsafe staffing levels.” The seven areas include nurse leadership; professional attitudes and behaviours; nurse education; the training and regulation of health care assistants; quality and the RCN Principles of Nursing Practice; staffing levels; and paperwork and administration. The RCN is also calling on members to say what nursing means to them. Members’ comments will be used on the public side of the site to demonstrate that nursing is full of remarkable people committed to providing the best care.
