RCN Nottinghamshire Branch
Our branch includes members working at NHS, independent, higher education and care home employers, as well as students.
Getting involved in our branch means more than attending meetings. Whether you’re organising for better conditions, supporting a colleague or pushing for systemic change, your involvement helps turn shared concerns into collective action.
Contact us
- 0345 772 6100
- Email: eastmidlands.region@rcn.org.uk
Your branch team
- Chair: Eleanor Garnett-Scheffel
- Secretary: Vacant
- Treasurer: Sophie McKay
All branch events
Our branch annual general meeting (AGM)
This is your chance to help set the nursing agenda. Details of the next AGM will be posted in the events section as soon as available.
Our branch and RCN Congress
All members can attend RCN Congress for free. There are also fully funded voting places for members, where travel, accommodation and food are provided. Voting members are there to listen, participate and vote on resolutions that are proposed by RCN branches, forums and committees across the UK.
Applications for funded voting places at Congress 2026 are open until 7 December 2025. To find out more, including how to apply, explore our Congress webpages.
Hear from members across our region
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3 Feb 2026
Coping With Grief While Caring for Others: A Mental Health Nurse’s Perspective on the importance of Self-Compassion and Self Care.
Watson’s Theory of Human Caring (1979) serves as a reminder of the enduring importance of compassion toward both oneself and others.
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2 Feb 2026
Myanmar – supporting nursing to rebuild
RCN Associate Director of International Nursing Marcus Wootton reflects on five years since the military coup in Myanmar, and how the RCN has been supporting an underground nurse education programme for some of the world’s most resilient and determined nursing academics and students.
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23 Jan 2026
Raising our voice and fighting for change
RCN President Bejoy Sebastian reflects on our continued pressure to end corridor care, the achievements of the RCN Institute in its first full year and looks ahead to 2026.
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23 Jan 2026
One year on: how the Insititute of Nursing Excellence is powering change
Director of the RCN Institute of Nursing Excellence, Professor Jane Ball, reflects on the Institute’s first year as a growing movement for excellence, influence and unity in nursing.
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22 Jan 2026
Nursing skills: an untapped engine of entrepreneurship
When do nursing skills become entrepreneurial strengths? RCN Fellow Ruth Oshikanlu MBE explains.
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21 Jan 2026
From the Archives: Are nursing textbooks useful or wise?
This blog series will delve into the oldest of the RCN’s historical book collection, exploring the ways in which nursing was taught in the past. Herbert E Cuff’s 1896 ‘Lectures on Medicine to Nurses’ is one such example.
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21 Jan 2026
Wikipedia as a platform for engagement: widening public knowledge of Scottish nurses
In this blog Sue shares fascinating examples of some of the nurses she has ‘met’ through the ‘Nurses in Red’ project, with a focus on Scottish nurses.
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19 Jan 2026
Menopause A nurse’s lived experience
Samten’s blog is a powerful account of her peri-menopause experience as a woman of colour, and as a nurse herself. 89% of nurses in the UK are female, so it is vital to continue to raise awareness around menopause.
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19 Jan 2026
A partnership approach to grief literacy
To mark National Grief Awareness Week, Queen's University Belfast united 11 bereavement organisations to equip nursing students with essential grief literacy - for supporting bereaved individuals and maintaining professional wellbeing.
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14 Jan 2026
Reflecting on Our Foundations: A Recent Review of the NRN Handbook
As the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½â€™s Professional Lead for Acute and Emergency Care and Defence Nursing—and as the lead for our Early Career Nurses Network—I am pleased to share reflections following a recent review of our Newly Registered Nurses (NRN) Handbook, a resource that continues to play a central role in supporting nurses at the start of their professional journey.
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