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29 Aug 2025
Raising Our Voices: Why I Chose to Get Involved in Activism as an Early Career Nurse
When I started my journey into nursing, I thought I鈥檇 be making a difference through care, compassion, and clinical skill. And I am. But what I didn鈥檛 expect was how deeply I鈥檇 be pulled into something bigger, activism. Advocacy. Speaking up not just for my patients, but for my peers and my profession.
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19 Aug 2025
New Name, Bigger Purpose: The Early Career Nurses Network
We鈥檙e excited to announce that the Newly Registered Nurses (NRN) Network is evolving鈥攁nd from now on will be known as the Early Career Nurse (ECN) Network.
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25 Nov 2024
The Repository Project: Supporting Collaboration and Connectivity in Nursing Research
Research is an activity which nurses do as normal, core business. But attempting to find a nurse researcher expert in the UK can be very challenging and there is no quick, accessible mechanism to understand the scope, nature and activities of Registered Nurses in the UK leading research in health care.
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21 Nov 2024
Speaking up
As registered nurses (RNs) we know we have a legal duty to speak-up when we have concerns about care (NMC, 2018). However, as newly-registered nurses (NRNs), in a time when care is often less than what we would want to give, this can be especially difficult.
