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RCN calls for prevention and prosecution when it comes to attacks on NHS staff Responding to the annual figures on violence against NHS staff, Janet Davies, Executive Director for Nursing and Service Delivery of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), said: "It is completely unacceptable that physical assaults on nurses and other NHS staff have risen in the past year.

Christine M. Rupprecht, MSN, RN, nursing specialist for the Army's Regional Anesthesia & Pain Management Initiative at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, has won the prestigious Celina Field Caregiver Award by the National Pain Foundation (NPF). Ms. Rupprecht is an employee of The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military medicine, Inc.