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

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