The RCN is a membership organisation representing nurses and nursing. We promote excellence in practice and help shape health policies.

To deliver our mission we aim to:

Represent

• the interests of nurses and nursing and be their voice locally, nationally and internationally.

Influence

• and lobby governments and others to develop and implement policy that improves the quality of patient care, and builds on the importance of nurses, health care assistants and nursing students to health outcomes.

Support and protect

• the value of nurses and nursing staff in all their diversity
• their terms and conditions of employment in all employment sectors
• the interests of nurses professionally

Develop

• and educate nurses professionally and academically, building our resource of professional expertise and leadership
• the science and art of nursing and its professional practice

Build

• a sustainable, member led, organisation with the capacity to deliver our mission effectively, efficiently and in accordance with our values
• the systems, attitudes and resources to offer the best possible support and development to our staff

More information about the Royal College of Nursing