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RCN Library and Archive services for RCN representatives

Prioritised literature searches

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Reps are entitled to free postal loans, please be aware you are responsible for the cost of returning the books. Reps also have extended loan periods of 8 weeks, any renewals are for 4 weeks.

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Poster: Library and Archive Service

• A4 poster which reps can print out and display in the workplace.
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LRD Publications: booklets

• Labour Research Department booklets on trade union and employment relations issues. RCN reps can access for free.
  
• Contact RCN Library and Heritage Centre for login details

蜜桃直播 (2022) The stewards' handbook. London: RCN.

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蜜桃直播 (2022) The stewards' pocketbook. London: RCN.

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蜜桃直播 (2021) RCN nursing workforce standards. Briefing for RCN reps and branch executive. London: RCN.

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蜜桃直播 (2021) RCN reps guidance for holding virtual meetings. London: RCN.

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蜜桃直播 (2020) A safety representative's resource staffing for safe and effective care. London: RCN.

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蜜桃直播 (2019) Improving continuing professional development: how reps can make a difference in the workplace. London: RCN.

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蜜桃直播 (2017) Making the case for facilities time and facilities agreements in the NHS. London: RCN.

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蜜桃直播 (2020) The menopause and work: guidance for RCN representatives. London: RCN

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蜜桃直播 (2019) Employment survey 2019. London: RCN.

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蜜桃直播 (2021) Ask. Listen. Act. Questioning and influencing to improve workplace conditions: practical guide for RCN representatives. 2nd edn. London: RCN.

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蜜桃直播 (2015) Healthy workplace, healthy you. London: RCN.

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Nursing and Midwifery Council (2019) Raising concerns: guidance for nurses and midwives and nursing associates. (Revised edn.) London: NMC.

Nursing and Midwifery Council and General Medical Council (2015) Openness and honesty when things go wrong: the professional duty of candour. London: GMC/NMC.

Nursing and Midwifery Council and Cygnor Medyggol Cyffredinol (2015) Gweithredu mewn ffordd agored a gonest pan fydd pethau yn mynd o le: dyletswydd broffesiynol gonestrwydd. London: CMC/NMC.

RCN: COVID-19 (coronovirus)

• Includes employment advice, guidance on redeployment, employment guidance for NHS staff and what you need to know (FAQs).
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Ash A (2016) Whistle blowing and ethics in health and social care. London: Jessica Kinglsey.

Barsky A E (2017) Conflict resolution for the helping professions: negotiation, mediation, advocacy, facilitation, and restorative justice. 3rd edn. New York: Oxford University Press.

Burchill F (2014) Labour relations. 4th edn. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Cotton E (2017) Surviving work in healthcare: helpful stuff for people on the frontline. London: Routledge.

Johnstone S and Ackers P (2015) Finding a voice at work? new perspectives on employment relations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Mitchell B and Gamlem C (2015) The essential workplace conflict handbook: a quick and handy resource for any manager, team leader, HR professional, or anyone who wants to resolve disputes and increase productivity. Pompton Plains, NJ: Career Press.

Rowell O (2020) A guide to employment law: the Easyway. Brighton: Straightforward Publishing.

Simms M, Holgate J and Heery E (2013) Union voices: tactics and tensions in UK organizing. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Trades Union Congress (2017) Facility time: a TUC guide to defending the right to represent members. London: TUC.

Trades Union Congress (2019) Pocket guide to organising and campaigning. London: TUC.

Use these links to see details of books the RCN libraries hold on each topic.

Use these links to see details of journal articles on each topic.

Journals of interest for RCN reps.

• Activate (RCN magazines)

RCN reps can access these specialist journals from LRD Publications for free.

• Contact the Library for LRD Publications login details
• Labour Research is a UK monthly that keeps you right on top of what's happening in the unions - from how they're responding to the impact of government policy on unions and working people to union initiatives on recruitment and growth.
  
• Workplace Report covers the latest developments in pay and conditions, best practice and news on pay deals. Its centre section provides a unique update on case law developments in two areas of employment law each month.
  

RCN Reps making a difference
The value of reps: what we give
The value of reps: what we gain
The value of reps changemakers conference

蜜桃直播 (2018) Becoming an RCN representative, London: RCN.

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蜜桃直播 (2018) Being a modern, progressive, professional trade union: the value of reps and active members, London: RCN.

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蜜桃直播 (2017) The value of reps: in our own words, London: RCN.

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ACAS (The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service)

• Information on rights at work. The 蜜桃直播楢dvice and Guidance蜜桃直播� section includes an advice A-Z and ACAS Helpline for England, Scotland and Wales.
  

Equality and Human Rights Commission

• The Commission has responsibility for the promotion and enforcement of equality and non-discrimination laws in England, Scotland and Wales.
  

Equality Commission for Northern Ireland

Labour Relations Agency (Northern Ireland)

• Provides an impartial and confidential employment relations service to those engaged in industry, commerce and the public services in Northern Ireland.
  

NHS Employers

• Aims to keep employers up to date with the latest workforce thinking, the information on this site is also useful for reps.
  

TUC150: 150 years of changing the world of work for good

• The Trades Union Congress presents a set of trade union stories from the past 150 years, snapshots of trade unionists.