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Our Mission
BACCN is a leading non-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion of nursing in critical care. Our Mission is to:
- provide a National voice to shape the strategy for critical care nursing
- promote safe, quality evidence based nursing care to the critically ill patient
- provide wide ranging benefits and opportunities to BACCN members
Strategic Goals
- collaborate with members through the National and Regional Boards
- collaborate with patient and relative representatives, health care providers, industry, other professional organisations and policy makers to influence the future development of critical care nursing
- promote, support and create evidence based practice to deliver safe, quality care
- produce a bi-monthly contemporary journal ‘Nursing in Critical Care’ to reflect the diverse needs of critical care nursing
- contribute to, develop and publish critical care nursing standards to promote safe, quality a care
- support members through research and development scholarships
- support Continuous Professional Development through National and regional activities
- organise and deliver an annual high quality conference
- be a platform to discuss critical care nursing and provide a supportive network
- provide social networks to support communication and engagement strategies