RCNA 2010 Nursing Summit 26-28 May 2010

Minds converging to inspire, progress and promote the profession of nursing

In May 2010, RCNA President Dr Stephanie Fox-Young FRCNA will convene a Nursing Summit to be held in Canberra, bringing together a collection of the most dynamic and visionary nurses in the country representing diverse groups from within the nursing profession.

The aim is to tackle some of the long term challenges confronting Australia’s nursing and health future – challenges which require long-term, big picture responses from the nurses of Australia. To thrive and prosper in the future we need to draw on the range of talents, ideas and energy from across the Australian nursing community. RCNA intends that this Summit will facilitate that opportunity.

Summit participants will be encouraged to debate and develop thinking for nursing across a number of critical areas. The Summit has the following objectives:

• To provide a forum for free and open debate in which there are no predetermined right or wrong answers
• To harness the best ideas from across the nation
• To apply those ideas to the core challenges facing the nursing profession
• To inform future goals and strategies to support the progression and promotion of nursing in Australia.

RCNA sees the 2010 Nursing Summit as setting the stage for the invention of nursing’s future…