RCN forum communities 
RCN forums are groups of RCN members working in a similar nursing specialty or with like interests. Each of the 41 RCN forum communities have a dedicated online community containing news, features, and an area on the discussion zone.
If you are a forum member and want to get involved go to your community page below and select "get involved".
To find out more about the work of the forums and to see how they can benefit you why not visit the forum pages on the website?
Join a forum
Members can join up to three forums free of charge. Join online or call RCN Direct now on 0345 772 6100, option one.
Other online communities
As well as the forum online communities, there are other online communities run by RCN members which can be found in the other nursing specialisms and areas of practice pages of the website.
Here are links to the 41 forum communities
- Advanced Nurse Practitioner Forum
- Cancer and Breast Care Forum
- Children and Young People field of practice
- Continence Care Forum
- Critical Care and In-Flight Nursing Forum
- Defence Nursing Forum
- Dermatology Nurses Forum
- Diabetes Nursing Forum
- Discharge Planning and Continuing Health Care Forum
- District Nurses Forum
- Education Forum
- Emergency Care Association
- ENT/Maxillofacial Nursing Forum
- Forensic Nursing Forum
- Gastroenterology and Stoma Care Nursing Forum
- Haematology and Intravenous Therapy Forum
- Imaging Nurses Forum
- Information in Nursing (IN) Forum
- Learning Disability Nursing Forum
- Mental Health Forum
- Midwifery and Fertility Nursing Forum
- Nephrology Nursing Forum
- Neuroscience Forum
- Nurses in Management and Leadership Forum
- Nursing in Criminal Justice Services Forum
- Older People’s Forum
- Ophthalmic Nursing Forum
- Outpatients Nursing Forum
- Palliative Care, Pain and Complementary Therapy Forum
- Perioperative Forum
- Practice Nurses' Association
- Public Health Forum
- Rehabilitation & Intermediate Care Nursing Forum
- Respiratory Nurses Forum
- Rheumatology Nursing Forum
- Society of Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing
- Women’s Health Forum