“Nurses are the limbs while doctors are the eyes and brains”

[medi]

This is a must read article - here's how some so called "nursing career" sites describe nursing! Read What is Nursing and share your thoughts!

[Ricu]

This is a must read article - here's how some so called "nursing career" sites describe nursing! Read What is Nursing and share your thoughts!

Thanks for sharing this article. I find it hard to believe that ANY nurse in the workforce today would be able to write that statement. The author obviously has no experience with an RN scope of practice before. Say nothing about nurse driven protocols, emergency medical response teams, ACLS, advances practice nursing and so on. This "news feature" reflects archaic thinking and has no place in a journal about nursing education of all things. Although I still encounter a few physicians who have no regard for nursing input, they are rare indeed. For the most part, I find that physicians seek out nursing input when making decisions about patient care. While physicians makes the diagnoses and oversee patient care, I believe that nurses work in concert with physicians and are therefore, all of the above: brains, eyes and limbs.