Key Activities

  • To provide expert opinion about advanced nursing practice to colleagues, health and non-health related professional bodies and other agencies.
  • To actively increase membership of the Advanced Nurse Practitioner Forum by encouraging members to register on the RCN website.
  • To continue to support the case for regulation of the Advanced Nurse Practitioner title.
  • To work with higher education institutions to develop appropriate programmes of study for existing and prospective Advanced Nurse Practitioners.
  • To support our colleagues in the Association of Advanced Nursing Practice Educators (AANPE) in maintaining a database of Advanced Nurse Practitioner programmes at under-graduate and post-graduate level.
  • To work collaboratively on a project pertinent to the advanced practice and prescribing role; the development of a patient-focused medicines management guide.