Critical Care and Flight Nursing Forum
For members who can meet the needs of a critically ill patient without direct supervision, and for members working in any flight nursing or medical assistance setting.
Supporting wellbeing
Nursing can be a busy, stressful and emotionally draining job. This webpage provides links to physical, emotional, mental, financial, and social wellbeing support.
Events
Upcoming critical care and flight nursing conferences, workshops and study days hosted by the RCN.
Webinar series
A series of webinars, brought to you by experts in their field, to support your professional development
Career pathways
A selection of nurses write about how they got into medical case management/flight nursing, and offer top tips
Library subject guide
Discover key critical care and flight nursing information resources including books, reports and journal articles
Further resources
- UK Critical Care Nursing Alliance. Critical Care Nursing Workforce Optimisation Plan and Staffing Standards 2024-2027
- Watch: Flight Nurse & Training Manager Rachele Pretorius Talks (South Africa). Dr Ruth Oshikanlu talks with Rachele Pretorius, Training Manager at Air Rescue Africa. In 2018 Rachele accepted a full-time position as the training manager for Air Rescue Africa. Rachele obtained a master’s degree in critical care, with distinction in 2019 (April 2021)
- Intensive care as a positive place to work: workforce wellbeing best practice framework (October 2020, Intensive Care Society). This framework has been endorsed by the RCN.
Networking groups
Coming soon...
CYP: Acute and Emergency Care Forum
This forum is under revision and will be relaunched in January 2026 as the CYP: Acute and Emergency Care Forum. The focus will be on the care of the acute or critically ill child from birth across all medical and surgical specialities, in hospital and transport services, together with professional issues common to all CYP nursing. For more information see: CYP Forum steering committee appointments.
Join the RCN Critical Care and Flight Nursing Forum Facebook group
RCN Facebook groups are a place where you can get involved in honest and open discussions on the issues that affect you and your field of practice.
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