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Tell us Your Story – celebrate the year of the nurse and midwife

We’re celebrating 2020 the Year of the Nurse and Midwife.

We’d like to showcase all the great work that you do by collecting some of your stories.
  • What do you do?
  • What do you enjoy most?
  • What would you pass on to students and new recruits?

We’ll then share your stories by displaying them in the library.

#YearoftheNurseAndMidwife logo and photo of a group of nurses
#YearoftheNurseAndMidwife logo and photo of a group of nurses

Get Involved

Send us your story:
Contact Cheryl at c.kent@keele.ac.uk for a story template
Or
Go online at https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/findaform/peoplestories/ to submit your story

Please share this post with your colleagues so that we can showcase as many different stories as possible.

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