Our Mission and Goals

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.
• Be an organisation that advocates using a social justice approach to prioritise the care of the critically ill patient.  Read the BACCN Statement on Social Justice. 

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