Important news on the RCN Forum Transition project
In 2008 RCN Council decided that RCN forums should be streamlined to create 41 stronger, more fit-for-purpose forums. They will have a revised governance structure and be supported with new online systems to help meet the challenges of the 21st century.
Thus the many existing forums in the Children and Young People's Field of Practice are about to be merged into five new forums:
- RCN CYP: Staying Healthy Forum
- RCN CYP: Continuing and Community Care Forum
- RCN CYP: Acute Care Forum
- RCN CYP: Specialist Care Forum
- RCN CYP: Professional Issues Forum.
You will be automatically allocated a new forum based on your current forum membership. You will still be able to access news and information about your specialism through the online communities. In future, all communications, such as this newsletter, will come from the CYP field of pratice.
More about the changes on the forum website: www.rcn.org.uk/forums , including the full list of new forums.
What do forums do?
Forums are groups of RCN members working in a similar nursing specialty or with like interests. They:
- provide an expert resource
- influence current and future health and social policy in the UK and beyond
- advise RCN Council
- shape, drive and develop nursing practice
- help members enhance and develop their practice knowledge and skills
- generate nurse leaders in their field
- provide networking opportunities.
Thousands of RCN members throughout the UK already work together in forums to improve nursing care in a range of settings and they remain an essential part of RCN membership. By joining a forum you are kept up to date with the latest developments in your key field of interest. There are also online communities in different specialisms and interests. See www.rcn.org.uk/communities for more information.
And don't forget to update your details at www.rcn.org.uk/myrcn to be sure you continue to receive information and updates from your new forum.