title: Exchange network wales.
abstract: Promoting the value of nursing with older people is a priority of both the RCN Advisory Panel and the Nursing and Care Homes Forum in Wales. There is good care practice which needs to be highlighted, praised and shared for the benefit of the public and the profession. However, there is also poor, underdeveloped and entrenched practice about which we sadly hear in the media. This has concerned me for some time ( Morgan 1992 ). There needs to be a mechanism whereby nurses can share practice which is person-centred, high quality and offers the best to the public. I see the RCN, and particularly the forums, as the professional organisation to take this forward.
authors.affiliation: Nursing and Care Homes Forum represents Wales and the Forum on the RCN Advisory Panel for the Continuing and Supportive Care Field of Practice.
authors.forename: Lorraine
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Morgan