Finding your voice as a new registrant
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Finding your voice as a new registrant

Natalie Elliott Cardiovascular research assistant, Edinburgh Napier University

Tips and advice on how to step up to your professional role, and believe in yourself as a compelling advocate for patients

As a newly registered nurse (NRN), finding your voice in a professional sense can be challenging. You may feel you should speak up but are not quite sure how, or you may think your voice does not matter due to your relative inexperience. Or maybe you are so busy trying to keep your head above water and make it through the day that you sometimes forget you even have a voice.

Nursing Standard. 38, 5, 43-44. doi: 10.7748/ns.38.5.43.s18

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