Nursing Standard is a weekly professional magazine that contains peer-reviewed articles and research, news and careers information for the nursing field. It is published by RCN Publishing, a company run by the Royal College of Nursing

Royal College of Nursing

The Royal College of Nursing is a union membership organisation with over 395,000 members in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1916, receiving its Royal Charter in 1928, Queen Elizabeth II is the patron...

 and has a weekly circulation in excess of 70,000 copies. Nursing Standard also publishes a continuing professional development

Continuing Professional Development

Continuing professional development or Continuing professional education is the means by which people maintain their knowledge and skills related to their professional lives.-CPD research:...

 programme in conjunction with the Royal College and the channel BBC 2, which broadcasts the weekly companion series RCN Nursing Update.