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title: Building the Professional Voice of Nurses
description: I had the opportunity to sit down with Steven Lewis. In this short interview, I ask him about he began getting involved in large scale health system projects and how he would advise nurses and nursing students to begin getting involved.
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### Building the Professional Voice of Nurses

*Posted By*  Alycia Sullivan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 @ 01:28 PM

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