Prof Jane Ball
Director of the RCN Institute of Nursing Excellence. A career spent researching nursing workforce to inform policy & practice. #safestaffing #valuingnursing
- Delighted to be here in Yokohama, where the Japanese Nursing Association are hosting the ICN International Workforce Forum. #IWFF2026 @howardcatton.bsky.social
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- Great to be at the Leadership Academy hosted event for chief nurses and deputies. @billypalmer.bsky.social shows the huge variation in skill mix across NHS trusts. 5-fold variation in the RN: support workforce ratio. @rcn.org.uk @emilymcwhirter.bsky.social
- Please find out more about the work of the RCN’s Institute of Nursing Excellence by reading this blog & checking out our report on 2025 @rcn.org.uk
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- This is such a beautiful painting and such a beautiful idea/intention to have set up this fund. Have donated x
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- The de-professionalisation of nursing is rife…. #NursingLive
- Who better to get us to think differently about nursing workforce challenges than the inimitable Prof Alison Leary? #NursingLive @alisonleary1.bsky.social @rcn.org.uk
- Lena Johnson at #NursingLive Discussing impact of corridor care (care in the wrong places) on staff.
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- “It’s been a brutal year. I hope we will start to be united about this. If we had legislation on the maximum number of patients per nurse, our nursing budgets couldn’t be cut.” “Invest in nursing and we can improve patient flow” Nicola Ranger #NursingLive
- Pay and conditions, career progression - needs radical rethink “Nursing needs to be VALUED” #NursingLive @rcn.org.uk
- “We need to be united to get nursing the status and resoect it deserves. Nursing is the solution” Prof Nicola Ranger, General Secretary and Chief Execuitve of @rcn.org.uk #NursingLive
- Delighted to be at #NursingLive at the NEC Birmingham. @rcn.org.uk President Bejoy Sebastian introducing our chief executive, Nicola Ranger
- It’s a false economy to think you’re saving money by having fewer nursing staff. When we talk about recruiting more nurses, often we’re met with resistance around costs. However, not investing is what is financially unsustainable….
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- Reposted by Prof Jane BallOoh - my new paper on case study is out! What’s a case study, how do you do one, how do you spot a good one? Includes niche examples like the REF impact case study (though it’s mainly about research case studies).
- Calling all researchers and educators📣 This new RMR by @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social on how to conduct effective case studies, offers guidance for using them for learning & decision-making. Essential reading for robust research! bit.ly/47PL01l
- What a fabulous leadership summit organised by @emilymcwhirter.bsky.social & team today. Great presentations but more importantly some fabulous reflections & questions from senior nurses. And a real sense of developing community. So glad to be a part of it. @rcn.org.uk #RCN #NursingLeadership
- BLOG from Marcus Wooton. “If we do not demand that its development includes all of humanity, our richest and our poorest, and every nation and place considered, future generations will rightly judge us harshly - and, like elephants, they will not forget.” www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
- NEW PAPER: “Addressing ‘persistent’ and detrimental organisational factors throughout nurses’ careers should continue to be a priority to retain them, safeguard their well‐being and enable them to deliver the standard of care they aspire to” scholar.google.com/scholar?as_y...
- Fabulous to hear clear commitments from country CNOs to make research a central pillar in nursing - opportunities, placements, career paths, pay, workfotce plans, contracts…. And fab that they cited the new @rcn.org.uk Research Strategy! #RCNresearch25
- Different strategies - shared goals. Making research everyone’s business. Professor Ruth Endacott, NIHR Director of Nursing and Midwifery #RCNResearch25
- What might influence nurses choices to stay in their jobs and in nursing? It depends in part on carrer stage…. Two discrete choice experiments undertaken as part of the #N50k study. Presentation by Dr Zoe Ejebu @unisouthampton #RCNresearch25
- How to deliver a project (and manage priorities) in 4 easy steps from @workchronicles.bsky.social #rcnresearch25 Familiar?!
- Reposted by Prof Jane BallThe latest RCN Research forum podcast is now live! In the podcast Gordon Hill & an ECR discuss writing for publication with Ann McMahon & Andree Le May. Ann & Andree share strategies & give excellent advice to help nurses to get their work published. #RCNResearch25 on.soundcloud.com/nmhwvyVvTiIQ...
- Great analogy for leadership in nursing research: ripples, waves and swell. Inspiring keynote from Dr Jo Cooper #RCNResearch25
- Dr Joanne Cooper (Deputy Director of Nursing Research for System Transformation at NHS England) offers inspiration through her keynote at #RCNResearch25 Conference
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- Gender discrimination in nursing “You have to be young and pretty and quiet” #RCNResearch25 @gaucipatricia.bsky.social
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- NEW BLOG: Nursing staff need to be empowered with the skills to understand, engage with and potentially lead research – to ensure care is safe, effective and future-ready. That requires a step up in support for nursing research and for nurses engagement in research. www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
- If you’re at #RCNResearch25 in Exeter - you can pick up a hard copy from the RCN standard. Or find me! @rcn.org.uk
- My colleague Dr Ada Hui calls for action: system transformation to liberate nurses from injustices (including racism) that hamper progress in research. Recognising and challenging ‘hyper invisibility’ so we can benefit from diversity of across nursing research. #RCNResearch25
- So pleased to be launching our research strategy today, at the RCN International Research Conference #RCNResearch2025
- Two fabulous nursing workforce research posts @rcn.org.uk working with @katekirk.bsky.social in the Workforce Academy careers.rcn.org.uk/Vacancies/Va...
- Do we need more research commissioning on the impact of fatigue on nurses and nursing care? #RCN25 In my view, what we need is more ACTION to address causes of fatigue (which are well known and effects well researched)
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- “Role of nursing staff in quality improvement’ Agenda item at #RCN25 What’s needed? Check out this free resource www.cambridge.org/core/element...
- Brilliant to see Marcus Wooton & Elsa Alfonso of the RCN Institute’s International Academy lead a key note session at #RCN25 Congress, on nurses working in conflict areas.
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