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Join us for the launch of Moved to Care: Stories of Nursing and Migration. Your chance for a first look around the exhibition. Enjoy free refreshments, an expert panel of speakers and activities.
📆 Thursday 5 March 2026
📍 London
✅ Book your spot: https://bit.ly/4pSGp4z
#MovedToCare #HistNursing
📆 Thursday 5 March 2026
📍 London
✅ Book your spot: https://bit.ly/4pSGp4z
#MovedToCare #HistNursing
Today marks the beginning of the Year of the Horse 🐎
Did you know some nurses travelled on horseback to reach patients in rural areas? We found a few examples in our collection of historical nursing journals
🔗 https://bit.ly/4eiLixy
#LunarNewYear
#ChineseNewYear
#YearOfTheHorse
Did you know some nurses travelled on horseback to reach patients in rural areas? We found a few examples in our collection of historical nursing journals
🔗 https://bit.ly/4eiLixy
#LunarNewYear
#ChineseNewYear
#YearOfTheHorse
February 17, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Today marks the beginning of the Year of the Horse 🐎
Did you know some nurses travelled on horseback to reach patients in rural areas? We found a few examples in our collection of historical nursing journals
🔗 https://bit.ly/4eiLixy
#LunarNewYear
#ChineseNewYear
#YearOfTheHorse
Did you know some nurses travelled on horseback to reach patients in rural areas? We found a few examples in our collection of historical nursing journals
🔗 https://bit.ly/4eiLixy
#LunarNewYear
#ChineseNewYear
#YearOfTheHorse
Missed an event?
Why not check out our recordings on YouTube - catch up now on this talk featuring members of the 1980s Radical Nursing Group: https://bit.ly/40bSo1M
Learn even more about nursing activism in our event, taking place at 20 Cavendish Square, tomorrow: https://bit.ly/3MefKR1
Why not check out our recordings on YouTube - catch up now on this talk featuring members of the 1980s Radical Nursing Group: https://bit.ly/40bSo1M
Learn even more about nursing activism in our event, taking place at 20 Cavendish Square, tomorrow: https://bit.ly/3MefKR1
A History of Activism: the Radical Nurses Group
Hear from some of the founders of the Radical Nurses Group, and explore how the innovative design of their printed material helped challenge perceptions of nurses as silent, respectable and apolitical. Programme and Speakers Activism past and present -...
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February 17, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Missed an event?
Why not check out our recordings on YouTube - catch up now on this talk featuring members of the 1980s Radical Nursing Group: https://bit.ly/40bSo1M
Learn even more about nursing activism in our event, taking place at 20 Cavendish Square, tomorrow: https://bit.ly/3MefKR1
Why not check out our recordings on YouTube - catch up now on this talk featuring members of the 1980s Radical Nursing Group: https://bit.ly/40bSo1M
Learn even more about nursing activism in our event, taking place at 20 Cavendish Square, tomorrow: https://bit.ly/3MefKR1
Join our upcoming #ArtOfNursing webinar to explore the role of music in care. This event is free and open to all, and will be especially interesting to artists and nursing or healthcare staff.
🗓️ 5 Mar 2026
🕐 1-2pm
🌐 Online
Reserve your spot now: https://bit.ly/3ZE3Kvp
🗓️ 5 Mar 2026
🕐 1-2pm
🌐 Online
Reserve your spot now: https://bit.ly/3ZE3Kvp
February 16, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Join our upcoming #ArtOfNursing webinar to explore the role of music in care. This event is free and open to all, and will be especially interesting to artists and nursing or healthcare staff.
🗓️ 5 Mar 2026
🕐 1-2pm
🌐 Online
Reserve your spot now: https://bit.ly/3ZE3Kvp
🗓️ 5 Mar 2026
🕐 1-2pm
🌐 Online
Reserve your spot now: https://bit.ly/3ZE3Kvp
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#histnursing for the diary
Enough is Enough! A talk on the history of nursing cartoons from 1900 to 1980. Join historian Dr Sue Hawkins, cartoonist Cath Jackson, graphic novel editor Corinne Pearlman and Holly Burrows (Cartoon Museum).
🕠5:30-7pm, 18 February
📍London
🎟️Free: https://bit.ly/3MefKR1
#ArtOfNursing #HistNursing
🕠5:30-7pm, 18 February
📍London
🎟️Free: https://bit.ly/3MefKR1
#ArtOfNursing #HistNursing
February 6, 2026 at 8:33 PM
#histnursing for the diary
Have you been enjoying the #WinterOlympics ⛷️? It's brought to mind this fab photo. Not quite a bobsleigh team ... but they look like they're having a lot of fun. Taken from the RCN Archives: Nurses and soldiers sledging in the snow during WWI.
View the full image online: https://bit.ly/4atV3sy
View the full image online: https://bit.ly/4atV3sy
February 15, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Have you been enjoying the #WinterOlympics ⛷️? It's brought to mind this fab photo. Not quite a bobsleigh team ... but they look like they're having a lot of fun. Taken from the RCN Archives: Nurses and soldiers sledging in the snow during WWI.
View the full image online: https://bit.ly/4atV3sy
View the full image online: https://bit.ly/4atV3sy
Our brilliant event with @rcnactivism.bsky.social "A History of Activism: The Radical Nurses Group" is now available to watch!
Against a backdrop of economic recession and political division, the group promoted direct action, rallies and work-ins across the country.
🎥: https://bit.ly/4tA7uM1
Against a backdrop of economic recession and political division, the group promoted direct action, rallies and work-ins across the country.
🎥: https://bit.ly/4tA7uM1
A History of Activism: the Radical Nurses Group
YouTube video by RCN
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February 15, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Our brilliant event with @rcnactivism.bsky.social "A History of Activism: The Radical Nurses Group" is now available to watch!
Against a backdrop of economic recession and political division, the group promoted direct action, rallies and work-ins across the country.
🎥: https://bit.ly/4tA7uM1
Against a backdrop of economic recession and political division, the group promoted direct action, rallies and work-ins across the country.
🎥: https://bit.ly/4tA7uM1
It's LGBTQ+ History Month - check out this Proud flyer from our collection of historic RCN Publications. Published in 2007 to celebrate equal opportunities, promoting the diversity champion programme launched that year on one side and the RCN LGBT Network on the other. #HistNursing
February 14, 2026 at 5:05 PM
It's LGBTQ+ History Month - check out this Proud flyer from our collection of historic RCN Publications. Published in 2007 to celebrate equal opportunities, promoting the diversity champion programme launched that year on one side and the RCN LGBT Network on the other. #HistNursing
Happy #LGBTQHistoryMonth from RCN libraries! 🏳️🌈
We've put together a new book display in London with books on providing affirming care, queer history, and more.
📍 20 Cavendish Sq, W1G 0RN
🗓️ February
Find more resources on supporting LGBTQ+ health in our reading list: https://bit.ly/44lItJY
We've put together a new book display in London with books on providing affirming care, queer history, and more.
📍 20 Cavendish Sq, W1G 0RN
🗓️ February
Find more resources on supporting LGBTQ+ health in our reading list: https://bit.ly/44lItJY
February 13, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Happy #LGBTQHistoryMonth from RCN libraries! 🏳️🌈
We've put together a new book display in London with books on providing affirming care, queer history, and more.
📍 20 Cavendish Sq, W1G 0RN
🗓️ February
Find more resources on supporting LGBTQ+ health in our reading list: https://bit.ly/44lItJY
We've put together a new book display in London with books on providing affirming care, queer history, and more.
📍 20 Cavendish Sq, W1G 0RN
🗓️ February
Find more resources on supporting LGBTQ+ health in our reading list: https://bit.ly/44lItJY
Do you find literature searching challenging? Join our online session in March. We'll show you how to use the latest version of CINAHL and help you search with confidence.
Book now 👉 https://bit.ly/4rb0Zhp
Book now 👉 https://bit.ly/4rb0Zhp
February 13, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Do you find literature searching challenging? Join our online session in March. We'll show you how to use the latest version of CINAHL and help you search with confidence.
Book now 👉 https://bit.ly/4rb0Zhp
Book now 👉 https://bit.ly/4rb0Zhp
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🧵 Today, the governments in England and Wales have announced a 3.3% pay award for NHS staff for 2026/27. This is below inflation and far from what nursing staff deserve.
Read more ⬇️
Read more ⬇️
Westminster government announces Agenda for Change pay award in England | News | Royal College of Nursing
The RCN says the government’s below-inflation 2026/27 NHS pay award is an insult
www.rcn.org.uk
February 12, 2026 at 4:45 PM
🧵 Today, the governments in England and Wales have announced a 3.3% pay award for NHS staff for 2026/27. This is below inflation and far from what nursing staff deserve.
Read more ⬇️
Read more ⬇️
This Children's Mental Health Week, we invite you to read our subject guide on promoting children and young people's mental health in nursing.
Our guide brings together the latest peer-reviewed resources to foster strong support systems for children and young people.🧸📚
https://bit.ly/3Zq4eVO
Our guide brings together the latest peer-reviewed resources to foster strong support systems for children and young people.🧸📚
https://bit.ly/3Zq4eVO
February 12, 2026 at 5:09 PM
This Children's Mental Health Week, we invite you to read our subject guide on promoting children and young people's mental health in nursing.
Our guide brings together the latest peer-reviewed resources to foster strong support systems for children and young people.🧸📚
https://bit.ly/3Zq4eVO
Our guide brings together the latest peer-reviewed resources to foster strong support systems for children and young people.🧸📚
https://bit.ly/3Zq4eVO
❤️ #HeartUnions Week is all about the power of coming together. Fuel your activism with our curated reading list, packed with books to spark ideas and inspire action.
📚 Start reading: https://rcn.libguides.com/activism
📚 Start reading: https://rcn.libguides.com/activism
February 11, 2026 at 5:49 PM
❤️ #HeartUnions Week is all about the power of coming together. Fuel your activism with our curated reading list, packed with books to spark ideas and inspire action.
📚 Start reading: https://rcn.libguides.com/activism
📚 Start reading: https://rcn.libguides.com/activism
Our library in Belfast will be closed on Friday 13 February 2026 due to essential maintenance. Our fantastic Northern Ireland librarian will be working remotely and we're ready to support you online!
📚 Our huge collection of ebook and ejournals will still be available from: www.rcn.org/library
📚 Our huge collection of ebook and ejournals will still be available from: www.rcn.org/library
February 11, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Our library in Belfast will be closed on Friday 13 February 2026 due to essential maintenance. Our fantastic Northern Ireland librarian will be working remotely and we're ready to support you online!
📚 Our huge collection of ebook and ejournals will still be available from: www.rcn.org/library
📚 Our huge collection of ebook and ejournals will still be available from: www.rcn.org/library
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🧵| Last year, RCN members working in the NHS in England voted to say: we deserve more.
We've been clear with the government – nursing staff need progress in both careers & through the annual pay award.
Today, we can announce that significant progress has been made on career progression. ⬇️
We've been clear with the government – nursing staff need progress in both careers & through the annual pay award.
Today, we can announce that significant progress has been made on career progression. ⬇️
Government funding to improve nursing career progression in England | News | Royal College of Nursing
After sustained RCN pressure, nursing staff will benefit from a package to tackle barriers to progression
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February 11, 2026 at 11:34 AM
🧵| Last year, RCN members working in the NHS in England voted to say: we deserve more.
We've been clear with the government – nursing staff need progress in both careers & through the annual pay award.
Today, we can announce that significant progress has been made on career progression. ⬇️
We've been clear with the government – nursing staff need progress in both careers & through the annual pay award.
Today, we can announce that significant progress has been made on career progression. ⬇️
Take some time to explore the RCN Archives. Here's a postcard from the Biley collection, showing a family connecting during difficult circumstances in 1914.
New Infirmary, Newcastle on Tyne, 3 May 1914 - front and back: https://bit.ly/4rcgohp
#ExploreYourArchive
#HistNursing
#EYAConnections
New Infirmary, Newcastle on Tyne, 3 May 1914 - front and back: https://bit.ly/4rcgohp
#ExploreYourArchive
#HistNursing
#EYAConnections
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We were so pleased to hear Tom has arrived quite safe and that he got the
presents through safely. You will have got used to
him by this [?] Hope he is quite better. Sorry he had been so ill.
You will get quite conversant with English folk and their
ways but of course we have to adapt ourselves to the
situation we are placed in.
Hope you are […]
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February 10, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Take some time to explore the RCN Archives. Here's a postcard from the Biley collection, showing a family connecting during difficult circumstances in 1914.
New Infirmary, Newcastle on Tyne, 3 May 1914 - front and back: https://bit.ly/4rcgohp
#ExploreYourArchive
#HistNursing
#EYAConnections
New Infirmary, Newcastle on Tyne, 3 May 1914 - front and back: https://bit.ly/4rcgohp
#ExploreYourArchive
#HistNursing
#EYAConnections
❤️ It’s #HeartUnions Week! RCN reps make workplaces safer, fairer and better for every member. Explore our Reps Subject Guide for the key resources, training and support that help you make a difference every day.
🔗 Discover the guide: https://bit.ly/4reHfcA
🔗 Discover the guide: https://bit.ly/4reHfcA
February 10, 2026 at 4:05 PM
❤️ It’s #HeartUnions Week! RCN reps make workplaces safer, fairer and better for every member. Explore our Reps Subject Guide for the key resources, training and support that help you make a difference every day.
🔗 Discover the guide: https://bit.ly/4reHfcA
🔗 Discover the guide: https://bit.ly/4reHfcA
Jumping (tardily) on the #MuseumSuperBowl bandwagon with this ornate bowl engraved with a female figure, maybe the sea nymph Amphitrite, sitting on a chimera-like animal.
It was given in 1925 to Annie Warren Gill, fourth founding member of the RCN who then became RCN President in 1927.
It was given in 1925 to Annie Warren Gill, fourth founding member of the RCN who then became RCN President in 1927.
February 9, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Jumping (tardily) on the #MuseumSuperBowl bandwagon with this ornate bowl engraved with a female figure, maybe the sea nymph Amphitrite, sitting on a chimera-like animal.
It was given in 1925 to Annie Warren Gill, fourth founding member of the RCN who then became RCN President in 1927.
It was given in 1925 to Annie Warren Gill, fourth founding member of the RCN who then became RCN President in 1927.
Object of the Month – Stethoscope and obstetric horn, 1950s-1980s
February is Heart Month to raise awareness of heart disease and promote healthy lifestyle choices.
In honour of that, here's the stethoscope and obstetric horn of Edith Johnson, nurse and midwife.
#ObjectOfTheMonth #HeartMonth
February is Heart Month to raise awareness of heart disease and promote healthy lifestyle choices.
In honour of that, here's the stethoscope and obstetric horn of Edith Johnson, nurse and midwife.
#ObjectOfTheMonth #HeartMonth
February 9, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Object of the Month – Stethoscope and obstetric horn, 1950s-1980s
February is Heart Month to raise awareness of heart disease and promote healthy lifestyle choices.
In honour of that, here's the stethoscope and obstetric horn of Edith Johnson, nurse and midwife.
#ObjectOfTheMonth #HeartMonth
February is Heart Month to raise awareness of heart disease and promote healthy lifestyle choices.
In honour of that, here's the stethoscope and obstetric horn of Edith Johnson, nurse and midwife.
#ObjectOfTheMonth #HeartMonth
From our fantastic and exciting new exhibition launch 🏛️ to yoga practice🧘, library skills🔍 and writing workshops🖊️, we've got loads of events for you over the next few weeks.
📔🎼🖼️💭🏥 Find our full programme and book your place: https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/Museum-and-Events/Library-Events
📔🎼🖼️💭🏥 Find our full programme and book your place: https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/Museum-and-Events/Library-Events
February 9, 2026 at 3:54 PM
From our fantastic and exciting new exhibition launch 🏛️ to yoga practice🧘, library skills🔍 and writing workshops🖊️, we've got loads of events for you over the next few weeks.
📔🎼🖼️💭🏥 Find our full programme and book your place: https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/Museum-and-Events/Library-Events
📔🎼🖼️💭🏥 Find our full programme and book your place: https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/Museum-and-Events/Library-Events
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This #HeartUnions Week, we’re celebrating our members who organise, mobilise & grow our collective power every day.
Through building solidarity in workplaces and turning member activism into real change, you ensure that the voice of nursing cannot be ignored.
Get involved: https://bit.ly/4hOpqNI
Through building solidarity in workplaces and turning member activism into real change, you ensure that the voice of nursing cannot be ignored.
Get involved: https://bit.ly/4hOpqNI
February 9, 2026 at 9:00 AM
This #HeartUnions Week, we’re celebrating our members who organise, mobilise & grow our collective power every day.
Through building solidarity in workplaces and turning member activism into real change, you ensure that the voice of nursing cannot be ignored.
Get involved: https://bit.ly/4hOpqNI
Through building solidarity in workplaces and turning member activism into real change, you ensure that the voice of nursing cannot be ignored.
Get involved: https://bit.ly/4hOpqNI
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Enough is Enough! A talk on the history of nursing cartoons from 1900 to 1980. Join historian Dr Sue Hawkins, cartoonist Cath Jackson, graphic novel editor Corinne Pearlman and Holly Burrows (Cartoon Museum).
🕠5:30-7pm, 18 February
📍London
🎟️Free: https://bit.ly/3MefKR1
#ArtOfNursing #HistNursing
🕠5:30-7pm, 18 February
📍London
🎟️Free: https://bit.ly/3MefKR1
#ArtOfNursing #HistNursing
February 7, 2026 at 8:18 AM
For #HeartMonth we're highlighting the British Journal of Cardiac Nursing. Essential for all nurses working in cardiac care, you can access the latest accurate research with your RCN membership. Browse the latest issue here: http://bit.ly/3NZvc4b
February 7, 2026 at 5:12 PM
For #HeartMonth we're highlighting the British Journal of Cardiac Nursing. Essential for all nurses working in cardiac care, you can access the latest accurate research with your RCN membership. Browse the latest issue here: http://bit.ly/3NZvc4b
Enough is Enough! A talk on the history of nursing cartoons from 1900 to 1980. Join historian Dr Sue Hawkins, cartoonist Cath Jackson, graphic novel editor Corinne Pearlman and Holly Burrows (Cartoon Museum).
🕠5:30-7pm, 18 February
📍London
🎟️Free: https://bit.ly/3MefKR1
#ArtOfNursing #HistNursing
🕠5:30-7pm, 18 February
📍London
🎟️Free: https://bit.ly/3MefKR1
#ArtOfNursing #HistNursing
February 6, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Enough is Enough! A talk on the history of nursing cartoons from 1900 to 1980. Join historian Dr Sue Hawkins, cartoonist Cath Jackson, graphic novel editor Corinne Pearlman and Holly Burrows (Cartoon Museum).
🕠5:30-7pm, 18 February
📍London
🎟️Free: https://bit.ly/3MefKR1
#ArtOfNursing #HistNursing
🕠5:30-7pm, 18 February
📍London
🎟️Free: https://bit.ly/3MefKR1
#ArtOfNursing #HistNursing
🌸 Smash your studies this spring 🌸
We're here to help you succeed this term (and the next) with training, resources, librarian support, cultural events and even yoga
🌷Start your refresh: https://www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-events/news/time-for-a-spring-refresh
We're here to help you succeed this term (and the next) with training, resources, librarian support, cultural events and even yoga
🌷Start your refresh: https://www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-events/news/time-for-a-spring-refresh
Time for a spring refresh | News | Royal College of Nursing
www.rcn.org.uk
February 6, 2026 at 9:37 AM
🌸 Smash your studies this spring 🌸
We're here to help you succeed this term (and the next) with training, resources, librarian support, cultural events and even yoga
🌷Start your refresh: https://www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-events/news/time-for-a-spring-refresh
We're here to help you succeed this term (and the next) with training, resources, librarian support, cultural events and even yoga
🌷Start your refresh: https://www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-events/news/time-for-a-spring-refresh
Join us for the launch of Moved to Care: Stories of Nursing and Migration. Your chance for a first look around the exhibition. Enjoy free refreshments, an expert panel of speakers and activities.
📆 Thursday 5 March 2026
📍 London
✅ Book your spot: https://bit.ly/4pSGp4z
#MovedToCare #HistNursing
📆 Thursday 5 March 2026
📍 London
✅ Book your spot: https://bit.ly/4pSGp4z
#MovedToCare #HistNursing
February 5, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Join us for the launch of Moved to Care: Stories of Nursing and Migration. Your chance for a first look around the exhibition. Enjoy free refreshments, an expert panel of speakers and activities.
📆 Thursday 5 March 2026
📍 London
✅ Book your spot: https://bit.ly/4pSGp4z
#MovedToCare #HistNursing
📆 Thursday 5 March 2026
📍 London
✅ Book your spot: https://bit.ly/4pSGp4z
#MovedToCare #HistNursing