We Are Global Nurses
Make our voice bigger, stronger and harder to silence - Emma Collins
Amidst a global pandemic, nursing has been at the forefront of the media. Painting a graphic play by play of images of what nursing...
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We Are Global Nurses
- Mar 24, 2021
- 1 min
Collective Voice, Big Influence - Vanessa Anthony
As an RCN student member and aspirant nurse I have an invested interest in what the nursing profession will look like not only when I...
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We Are Global Nurses
- Mar 4, 2021
- 2 min
Why the RCN needs to re-join the ICN - Linda Bailey
Other more eminent friends and colleagues have already set out very clear reasons why we need to be part of the global nursing family and...
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We Are Global Nurses
- Feb 24, 2021
- 4 min
Why wouldn’t we want to be part of the Global Nursing Family? - Paul Irving
Looking back I can remember it vividly. The 2013 Royal College of Nursing’s Annual General Meeting where we discussed the merits and...
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We Are Global Nurses
- Feb 22, 2021
- 2 min
Nursing Value and Values - Pat Hughes
In the critical debate concerning RCN’s re-joining ICN, I worry that we may be falling into the cynical trap that Oscar Wilde warns of...
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We Are Global Nurses
- Feb 17, 2021
- 2 min
It’s time to be part of the global story again - Jane Salvage
The International Council of Nurses is in the RCN’s DNA. Once headquartered in London, and hosted by the RCN, its luminaries have...
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We Are Global Nurses
- Nov 28, 2020
- 3 min
Together we are louder, better, stronger - Rachel Hollis
The global pandemic of 2020 has thrown into sharp focus the interconnected nature of our global society. We share the same health...
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- Nov 24, 2020
- 3 min
No them, only us: Why the RCN should rejoin the International Council of Nurses - Brian Dolan OBE
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in years of working in the UK, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, and elsewhere, it’s that the only thing...
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- Nov 22, 2020
- 3 min
Are we having the right conversation? Gerry Bolger
As a long-standing member of the college, and a Council member when the original decision was made to leave the ICN, in which I didn’t...
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- Nov 21, 2020
- 4 min
Rejoining the International Council of Nurses – Heart, head or a little of both? - Liam Williams
I was asked how I feel about the RCN re-joining as a member of the ICN. Instinctively I responded positively and said ‘yes, of course’....
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- Nov 20, 2020
- 2 min
My thoughts on joining the International Council of Nurses - Graham Revie
I must admit I have really struggled with this. I am a pragmatist, a realist, some may say socialist and self declared trade unionist....
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- Nov 19, 2020
- 2 min
Crime, a global public health problem - Lou Cahill
Crime has historically been thought of as a matter for the police and courts, with the focus almost exclusively on responding after the...
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- Nov 18, 2020
- 2 min
The importance of the International Council of Nurses for Portuguese nursing - Andre Santos
United Kingdom has been through major changes in the last decade including the most divided subject – Brexit. Nursing is being practiced,...
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- Nov 17, 2020
- 2 min
Year of the nurse - Joan Pons Laplana
2020 is supposed to be the year of the Nurse it feels that COVID has ruined all the celebrations planed. Covid is like the uninvited...
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- Nov 13, 2020
- 5 min
Why I believe the Royal College of Nursing should rejoin the ICN - Craig Davidson
I've thought long and hard about what I wanted to put in this blog post. And why I genuinely believe the Royal College of Nursing (RCN)...
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- Jul 18, 2019
- 3 min
I hope we can see beyond the restrictions of the past and reach for the moon - Laura Serrant
July 2019 marks a momentous occasion. This week the newsreels, online discussions and media attention is drawn to the Apollo 11 mission –...
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- Jul 15, 2019
- 4 min
We will only achieve if we reach across boundaries to share good practice - Gearóid Brennan
I’m very proud to be Irish. When approx. 80 million people across the globe claim Irish ancestry in some form, it’s programmed into my...
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- May 23, 2019
- 2 min
The fierce urgency of now - Jeni Watts
Eighteen months ago, with my friend Paul Jebb and a group of determined and passionate nurse activists I set up a campaign group called...
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- May 21, 2019
- 3 min
RCN Congress, matter for discussion - Jeni Watts
Below is my speech introducing the matter for discussion at RCN Congress 2019 "That this meeting of congress debates if the organisation...
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- May 19, 2019
- 2 min
Nursing is a global endeavour - Dann Gooding
The events of 2016 changed the world. Donald Trump and Brexit and the rise of the right, whether or not the events aforementioned are...
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