nurse's role is? I believe nursing education now to be a self-serving bureaucracy. I believe it is now up to us to decide what we want in nursing education and for there to be a forum -- a nursing initiative. That we need more staff is a given, but I suggest we do not settle for staffing with less than EN status. We deserve to work effectively and the general public has a right to expect that the nurse looking after them has a high degree of knowledge.