Nursing is a profession that requires collaboration with other healthcare personnel. While we may be thinking and processing the immediate needs of patients, it is the ability of the nurse to communicate patient data with others that sets us apart. We understand the patient's progress, how they might educate themselves further about their diagnosis, potential discharge needs, and what details must be documented for care to proceed.
Yet it is this communication with other healthcare professionals where unsettling aspects of nursing can appear. We are questioned about care, expected to produce patient data by rote (labs, vital signs, medications)
