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Find your nursing leadership community

Leadership is stronger when we grow together. The RCN Leadership Academy is a space for current and aspiring nursing leaders to connect, share experiences and learn from each other. Whether you're taking your first steps into leadership or shaping the future of health care in more senior roles, this is your community.

We're developing an exciting new platform designed to support collaboration, peer learning and the sharing of best practice, helping you to thrive.

Stay tuned as we build a dynamic space where leadership development meets real- world impact. 

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Professor Jane Ball, Director of the RCN Institute for Nursing Excellence

Jane is director of the RCN Institute of Nursing Excellence. Over the past 30 plus years her research has focused on nursing employment and deployment, looking at how features of nurse staffing affect care quality, patient outcomes and nurses themselves. The unifying aim of the work has been to identify conditions needed to allow nurses to deliver excellent care and have satisfying and sustainable careers.

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Dr Ada Hui

Professional Lead for Research

Ada is a sociologist, registered mental health nurse and executive coach with extensive experience working in research, health and higher education. She specialises in working with people who are under-served. examining institutional injustice, emotional labour, role, identity and belonging. Her work addresses health and social inequalities, and has gained recognition through national and international awards and prizes.

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