title: The first timeNorah Casey, Editor of Nursing Standard, extends her support to all would-be speakers and recalls her own ill-fated attempt to address the assembly.
abstract: I remember it well - my first RRB, as it was then called. As a fresh faced student I set off to Harrogate as a non-voting member not knowing what to expect but excited at the prospect of the week ahead. My voting colleague, a certain Mr John Kelly (now elevated to Chairman of Council) duly briefed me on the complicated rules, agenda and multicolored card system, but I have to admit I learned little from the education excercise.