The BJN Nutrition Supplement: building a community

Welcome to the first BJN Nutrition Supplement in association with the National Nurses Nutrition Group (NNNG). This is a fabulous opportunity for nutrition specialist nurses and other health professionals with an interest in nutrition to showcase and share their work—building and developing the nutrition specialist nurses' work-based community and embracing, supporting and sharing information to enhance good clinical practice. The NNNG is delighted to be working collaboratively with such a well-respected and established publication.

The NNNG's plan for 2020 was to celebrate the International Year of the Nurse—the history, our dynamic work of today and the future. No one could have predicted the path that 2020 would take and, for many, it was a year we will not forget. We didn't get to celebrate in a traditional fashion, but many of the postponed celebrations were held online—a format we have all become familiar with. Although we did not get the time, have the energy or have the COVID-19 safe venues to allow for celebrating, what we did do so well was to pull together, support each other and embrace the virtual world to reach out to each other.