This is a briefing paper from the AHRC funded project called Re-envisaging Infection Practice Ecologies in Nursing through Arts and Humanities Approaches (RIPEN). This paper briefed participants in advance of the RIPEN Policy Workshop event held on 4th October 2019 in collaboration with the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). The event brought together nurses from clinical practice settings across the UK with key policy leaders and academics to plan how we can visualise, activate and optimise nursing’s power for change. The Policy Workshop drew on RIPEN’s processes and findings.

For reasons of space, only a brief selection of RIPEN’s findings are presented here. The first section of the briefing paper gives overview of RIPEN. The second section presents selected emergent themes from current practice and priority ideas for developing AMR-related practice. The third shows an example of developing an idea jointly towards policy action and also shows an example of how a priority idea has been developed as a protocol for enactment in a pilot initiative. The fourth shares some themes to emerge from participants envisaging practice in 2030. Section 5 raises a number of related challenging thoughts and questions. The outcomes from the event will inform the update of the RCN’s position document on nursing and AMR, and key themes from the previous 2014 document are summarised in the final section.