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16 Oct 2024
Sickle cell disease ÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥“ the final frontier!
Even after more than 40 years of raising public awareness of sickle cell disease, extensive education and training of healthcare professionals and the development of specialist services, weÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥™re still witnessing unacceptable standards in nursing practice resulting in avoidable deaths.
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5 Sep 2024
Spinal cord injury: building health care capacity around the world
RCN Fellow Fiona Stephenson marks World Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Day by highlighting how capacity building, especially in developing countries, is key to enhancing health care for this vulnerable group.
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7 Aug 2024
Making the right decisions in response to disclosure of rape or sexual assault
RCN Fellow Jessica Davidson MBE argues that all healthcare professionals should familiarise themselves with what to do if a person discloses that they have been raped or sexually assaulted.
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4 Jul 2024
Are Zero Suicide targets just an aspiration?
Suicide rates are much lower now than in the past but that downward trend has faltered. RCN Fellow Professor Rod Thomson questions whether the ultimate goal of ÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥˜Zero SuicideÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥™, although a laudable aspiration, is actually achievable.
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17 Jun 2024
Let's bring incontinence out of the shadows
During World Continence Week, RCN Fellow Professor Nikki Cotterill shares how we all can help raise the profile of bladder and bowel leakage.
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The Nursing Matters podcast regularly features RCN Fellows discussing nursing issues.
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Watch previous Fellows events
This RCN Fellows event focused on the escalating crisis of recruitment and retention in nursing, nationally and globally. This event was chaired by Sir Paul Grice. Speakers included RCN Fellows Professor Aisha Holloway, Professor Angela Wallace and Professor Danny Kelley. This was a hybrid event, held both online and in person, in September 2024.
This RCN Fellows event, chaired by the Chief Nursing Officer of the World Health Organization, explores the future of nursing globally. The event was chaired by Dr Amelia Latu Afuhaamango Tuipulotu, Chief Nursing Officer of the World Health Organization. Speakers include RCN Fellows Professor Dame Anne Marie Rafferty CBE, Professor Helen Allan and Dr Barbara Stilwell
This RCN Fellows event explored how changes in health and medicine have affected the complex needs of young people, and how nursing research and practice has helped improve care. This event was chaired by Professor Sir Alan Craft. Speakers included RCN Fellows Professor Jane Coad and Ray McMorrow. This was a hybrid event, held both online and in person in June 2023.
In this RCN Fellows event, three pioneering speakers came together on World Mental Health Day 2022 to discuss the current landscape of mental health nursing.
The speakers on the panel were: Cecilia Anim CBE FRSA FRCN; Catherine Gamble FRCN; and Roland Dix FRCN. The event was introduced by Professor Danny Kelly OBE FRCN, and chaired by Simon Arday.
This session was held online and recorded on 10 October 2022.
This event, hosted by Jim Campbell of the World Health Organisation (WHO), was the third in a series highlighting significant contributions to nursing.
Hear from a panel of RCN Fellows – David Benton, Jane Salvage and Neslyn Watson-Druée – about the past, present and future of nursing and politics, and why nurses and the public should engage with the political context of healthcare. This event was held online in May 2022.
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson hosts a panel of nursing experts, to find out why patients need well-educated nurses. Hear from a panel of RCN Fellows – Hilary Chapman, Brendan McCormack and Sonja McIlfatrick - about the past, present and future of nursing education, and why patients need well-educated nurses. This event was held online in October 2021.
Nurse and author of The Language of Kindness Christie Watson hosts this event highlighting significant contributions to nursing.
Hear from three RCN Fellows – Jane Ball, Tara Bartley and Ruth Oshikanlu – about the challenges and opportunities the COVID-19 pandemic has presented for nursing.
This event was held online in May 2021.
