{"id":13872,"date":"2021-03-17T17:28:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T17:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smk.org.uk\/?p=13872"},"modified":"2021-03-17T17:52:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T17:52:17","slug":"thinking-about-nursing-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smk.org.uk\/thinking-about-nursing-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking about nursing activists"},"content":{"rendered":"
Over the past few years, we have all seen the power of activism to bring important issues to the forefront of public attention from climate change and racism to sexual exploitation and child food poverty.<\/p>\n
Working at the Royal College of Nursing<\/a> \u2013 a professional body and trade union for over 450,000 members working in nursing \u2013 the question of what we could achieve with the power of our members is something that has always interested me.\u00a0 Nursing staff are at the cutting edge of the real-life impact of policy and political decisions, seeing at first-hand the impact of every social and economic change on all sections of the wider population.<\/p>\n In addition, since first appearing in the index of most trusted professions in the UK in 2016, nurses have topped the poll each year, with 93% of respondents in 2020 putting them at the top of their most-trusted list (Ipsos Mori, 2020<\/a>).<\/p>\n So, I have always been aware of the potential of what our members could achieve if we supported them to step into their activism as a powerful and compelling collective voice for positive change.<\/p>\n