Nurses must work together to make voices heard, urges RCN president
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RCN president Cecilia Anim is urging nurses to make their voices heard through petitions, branch activism and meetings in their workplaces.
In a blog posting to mark the new year, she said nurses must make their voices heard in 2017.
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Ms Anim, who was re-elected in November for a second term as RCN president for two more years, said: ‘Our profession brings great pressures that can make it difficult to remember why we do our job.
'And during these moments we feel downtrodden and isolated. But remember, we are a community of 450,000 nursing staff, each with a voice and with the skills to transform our patients’ lives.’
She added: ‘By working together; to sign petitions, to attend branch meetings, to organise in our workplaces – I know we can meet the challenges ahead. In 2017, let’s show the world how strong we are.’
‘On 1 January each year, many of us pledge to change something in our lives: to stay active, to volunteer or to learn something new. Let’s make 2017 the year nursing staff are heard.’
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