Children's and Neonatal Intensive Care Community

The CNICC is for all members engaged with children, infants and neonates throughout their critical care journey. This spans intensive, high dependency, special and transitional care environments.

Purpose and objectives

Purpose

The CNICC will provide practitioners, students, researchers and educators with a "space" for sharing of:

• best practice and excellence in care
• views and experiences
• advice and expertise
• hot topics and key issues.

We aim to generate

• platforms for professional debate (to inform RCN Congress)
• ideas to inform future publications/educational events
• expert opinions to influence and inform strategic developments across the United Kingdom.

Objectives

• Sustain contribution to DH Commissioning for neonatal services
• Complete work with NPSA and NICE
• Disseminate Competency and Education Framework for Neonatal Nurses nationally and internationally (project bid)
• Share and disseminate good practice: Annual Acute Focused Paediatric Nursing Journal
• Develop fringe events further
• Establish community membership.