Royal College of Nursing International Nursing Research Conference

Attending this conference provides a quality assured opportunity to improve nursing practice, learn, network, and discuss and debate the challenges facing the future nursing workforce.

It will be of particular interest to all current and aspiring nurses, and colleagues in related disciplines, involved in the development and use of knowledge that impacts on nursing practice or the context in which nurses’ practice.

The RCN is pleased to announce the Keynote speakers for the conference

The complete keynote speaker line-up has been announced:

Day 1 - Dr Alan Finnegan, Professor of Nursing and Military Health, University of Chester, UK

Day 2 - Prof. Hester Klopper, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Stellenbosch University, SA

Day 3 - Prof. Lyvonne Tume, Professor of Critical Care Nursing, Edge Hill University, UK

You can attend this conference as a presenting or as a non-presenting delegate. The conference provides the opportunity to:

• Hear how research is addressing contemporary nursing issues from inspirational keynote speakers
• Share and learn about cutting edge innovation in research methods, policy and management
• Showcase your research and your employer on an international stage
• Engage in supportive and constructive critical debate
• Discuss and debate the impact of research on health and social care policy and nursing practice
• Consider how you can use research findings to inform yours and colleagues’ nursing practice
• Network with like-minded colleagues – from those starting out in their careers through to distinguished keynote speakers
• Build new alliances and make new contacts
• Judge poster presentations – every vote counts
• Participate in a lively social programme
• Evaluate the event and contribute to future conference developments
• Accrue up to 18 hours of continuing professional development - for UK nurses CPD counts towards your revalidation

Don’t miss these session from researchers in Wales:

• Inside the Blackbox: Nurses’ use of professional judgement in safe staffing systems in England and Wales: Insights from an ethnographic study.

• Follow my leader? How embedding research is everyone’s business – a success story 

• Embedding a culture of nursing in clinical trials: a case-based critical reflection on the impact on inclusivity in trials

• The ASSISTANCE STUDY: Moral distress and psychological wellbeing of nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic 

• Exploring resilience in contemporary nursing roles in Wales: a mixed methods study

This conference is being run by the Royal College of Nursing if you have any questions, please contact the event team.