Follow us
Log in
Much of the content on our site is available to our registered users only. If you're already registered, just click the 'Log in' button then enter your email address and password.
Register
If you're not already registered on the site, you'll need to do so in order to gain unrestricted access to all our content. There are two types of registration:
1. If you're a current subscriber, you can register for access to our protected content at no additional cost. You'll need your subscription number in order to complete your registration, which is on the polythene wrapper in which your journal is delivered. Click the Register button to begin your registration.
2. If you don't currently subscribe you can do so now by taking out a secure online subscription. Not only will this give you instant access to our protected online content, but you'll also get every issue of Nursing Standard - the UK's best selling nursing journal - delivered straight to your door. Click the Register button to begin your subscription and registration.
Reader offers
We offer special discounts for our readers and subscribers, such as discounted nursing books through trusted publishers and carefully sourced nursing equipment. You can also enter our reader offers to win recently published books, guides and other items of interest to nurses and healthcare professionals.
In this section:
- Book club Welcome to the RCN book club where we have teamed up with Jones & Bartlett Learning, Pearson, and the Open University Press.
- Health Press: Fast FactsRCN Publishing has teamed up with Fast Facts, the ultimate medical handbook series, to offer readers a 20% discount.
- How to do a Systematic Literature Review in Nursing Subscribers benefit from a 20 per cent discount
- Latest offersWin recently published books, guides and other items of interest here.
- RCN XtraRCNXtra offers RCN members fantastic discounts on a range of lifestyle products and services.
- Supplies and equipmentDiscounted nursing equipment from Medisave, the online supplier.
- The Student Nurse Handbook Subscribers benefit from a 20 per cent discount
- Ward WalkersWard Walkers provide high quality footwear for individual Healthcare workers, as well as on a contract basis to the NHS and other healthcare organisations.
- WinnersThe winners of the reader offer that ran in November's issue of Mental Health Practice are:
The Principles of Nursing Practice
This new essential guide comprises a nine-part series describing The Principles of Nursing Practice developed by the Royal College of Nursing in collaboration with patient and service organisations, the Department of Health, the Nursing and Midwifery Council, nurses and other healthcare professionals.
The RCN Publishing Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Royal College of Nursing, the world's largest organisation for nurses. RCN Publishing produces one weekly, eight monthly and two quarterly nursing publications. Nursing Standard, the flagship journal, is the UK's biggest selling weekly for nursing. It is produced by RCN Publishing Company along with a suite of specialist nursing journals - Cancer Nursing Practice, Mental Health Practice, Learning Disability Practice, Nursing Children and Young People, Nursing Management, Emergency Nurse, Nursing Older People, Nurse Researcher and Primary Health Care. RCN Publishing Company also produce the RCN Bulletin, a major source of up-to-the-minute information for RCN members in all specialities, grades and working environments. With the latest nurse vacancies from trusts nationwide, it has become the most cost-effective nurse recruitment magazine available.