Student members of Council
Stuart Young - Student member of Council and Chair of the RCN Students Committee
Email: stuart.young@rcn.org.uk
Stuart says: "I am a newly qualified nurse having studied at Birmingham City University. I have been a member of the RCN Student Committee for the past three years as the West Midlands representative and in the last year as the student member of RCN Council.
Within my role on Council I represent students on the Membership Representation Committee (MRC) and am Vice Chair of the Business Committee. I continue to raise the profile of students and health care assistants within the College. I particularly want to encourage you to become activists at a local, regional and national level.
My biggest passion within the College is around communications and the power of social networking to get students involved in all nursing issues. I regularly contribute to RCN publications, blogs and to the Facebook page.
After seeing many areas of care in my time as a student, I have started to work in orthopaedics and hope to continue my studies post preceptorship around spinal care.
If you have any thoughts, comments, questions around what we as a student body can achieve and do within our profession I would love to hear from you."
Gemma Selby - Student member of Council
Email: gemma.selby@rcn.org.uk
Gemma says: "I'm a third-year adult nursing student at Birmingham City University. I am very passionate about my profession and doing my best for patients.
I wanted to get more involved at a higher level with the issues facing nurses and nursing and felt I can achieve this with the RCN. I'm married to a Royal Air Force nurse, who supported me to get back into nurse training after my mum died. I am very excited to be part of an organisation with the history, reputation and consideration of its members, which the RCN has."