2023
RCN Foundation Hardship Grants
It can be hard to ask for help. Especially when you’re used to helping others. But everyone can feel overwhelmed, stressed and worried, especially about money. The RCN Foundation Benevolent Service is a fund that exists to help nurses, midwives and health care support workers make ends meet during times of financial hardship.
Guided Journaling Questions for week commencing 6th March
WeWe often hear about a work–life balance - as though it’s a see-saw. Perhaps another way of thinking about it is as an avocado - work being the stone in the middle and life wrapped around it. How comfortable are you with your relationship to work? If there was space for change, what might that mean for you and for others?
Guided Journaling questions for week commencing 27th February
Where are there signs of success in your life? What might this offer you?
Supporting staff in distress and crisis
This is an information sheet on the range of support available, both internally and through outside agencies, to you or any colleague if you are experiencing distress or are in crisis.
Guided Journaling Questions for week commencing 20th February
Who have you felt gratitude from recently? What difference did that make to your day?
Guided Journaling Questions for week commencing 13th February 2023
Other people’s knowledge and experience is important to support our own learning, but not everything we learn as truth is actually true. What difference might other truths make?
Guided Journaling Questions for week commencing 6th February
Where do polar opposites show up in your life? Where could there be synergies and how might you make use of these opposites?
Guided Journaling questions for week commencing 30th January 2023
Burns wrote: ‘… like the snow falls on the river, a moment white – then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, that flit ere you can point there place; Or like the rainbow’s lovely form Evanishing amid the storm.’ What flits across your attention, vanishing before you can properly focus upon it? If you had a chance to catch more than a glimpse, what might you notice?
New Psychological First Aid Online Workshops Launched
Psychological First Aid is defined as a humane, supportive, and flexible response to a fellow human being who is suffering during or after crises or emergencies. Given that we can all respond differently to challenging situations, how might Psychological First Aid support us as individuals, as leaders and as fellow human beings.