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Become a Nursing Workforce Standards Champion

Champion the highest standards in your workplace – for your colleagues, patients and service users 

Our outstanding Standards Champions are members who have made positive workplace changes using our Nursing Workforce Standards.

Standards Champions live and breathe the standards in their everyday roles. In doing so, they influence change and improve the lives of nursing staff, patients and service users.

Find out more about the role of a champion and how to become one.

Sign up to become a champion

Take the first step today.

What it means to be a Standards Champion

The role of a champion is to:

  • work with your RCN representative, your local RCN branch and us to promote and use the standards
  • support workplace improvements
  • share success and promote best practice
  • with our support, raise concerns when the standards are not met
  • be part of the network of Standards Champions who support others, promote best practice and work with organisations to implement the Standards in practice
  • attend quarterly meetings for updates, support and networking

How to become a Standards Champion


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Sign up

Sign up to be a Standards Champion. It only takes a minute to get started.

Sign up now

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Drive improvements

Use our checklist to identify gaps and start making improvements. Your line manager can support you.

Get your checklist

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Shout about it

Tell colleagues about your awesome work. Tell us too, using our short form.

Let us know

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Be a champion

We'll give you a badge, certificate and membership to the Standards Champions Network.

Meet our champions

Join our community of champions

If you're passionate about making safety-critical improvements that support the health and wellbeing of your team and patients, sign up today and join incredible members like Salini.

Essential resources for Standards Champions and reps