title: My passion is others' development.
abstract: Having trained as a nurse in Ireland, Paul Vaughan moved to the UK in 1989 to take up a post in orthopaedics at Gloucestershire Royal Infirmary. He then moved into ENT, rising to ENT senior nurse manager in 1995. The following year he became a sponsorship executive at the RCN, with subsequent roles at the college, including employment relations officer. He has been RCN West Midlands regional director since 2009.