Get involved as Â鶹ÊÓƵ student member
Make your mark on nursing
Find your tribe, find your voice.
Being a student nurse is exciting, challenging and rewarding. As Â鶹ÊÓƵ student member, you can take an active role in the student nursing community and use your voice to improve the student experience.
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Represent the nursing student community
From putting yourself out there for a student role to speaking up about the things that matters most – your fellow students are counting on you.
Raise your voice as a Student Ambassador
You may have what it takes to become Â鶹ÊÓƵ Student Ambassador.
What it means to be a Student Ambassador
There's so much to get stuck into as a student ambassador. Here are just a few ways you could help to create positive, inclusive change for student nurses in your region and beyond.
- Direct students to RCN clinical and wellbeing resources and services
- Help members develop networks to share experiences and encourage peer support
- Act as a role model for fellow student members
- Organise opportunities to be visible to members
- Encourage members to get involved with RCN campaigns, events and Congress
- Promote the professional services of the RCN Libraries
- Develop connections with members to share their experiences and to work collectively
- Promote the RCN and recruit members and RCN student ambassadors
- Share examples of good and poor practice and organisational culture
- Encourage members to question and influence on student issues
- Create a link between universities, the RCN and members to promote partnership working
Find your tribe at RCN Congress!
Congress is the ultimate opportunity to network, hear from exceptional keynote speakers and take part in vibrant debates about issues affecting nursing.
Plus, with a day dedicated to students, an exhaustive education and development programme and buzzing Liverpool location, you're sure to leave Congress feeling energised and inspired.
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Hear from your fellow students
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15 Apr 2025
Leadership is a mindset, not a title: My journey at the Student Leadership Academy
From conquering presentation nerves to embracing her inner leader: Stephanie Todd, third year student in Adult Nursing at Swansea University, reflects on her experience of the Student Leadership Academy
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20 Feb 2025
Student, Senior HCA and now Forum Committee Member
New to the RCN Diabetes Forum Committee, student Nurse, senior healthcare assistant, and mum on a round-the-clock mission, Helena talks about her experiences of joining the committee.
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7 Feb 2025
It's time to do something that I really want to do
Josh Parker-Walsh, the newly-elected West Midlands representative on our UK Students Committee, recalls the experiences that have led him into nursing and inspired him to become a champion of the student voice.
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