Care in administering medications or executing complex procedures. Care in communicating and documenting. Care in ensuring all the patients' needs are met. But nurses know that personal caring alone is insufficient to help patients achieve a level of wellness. The fact is, patients need nurses, because patients need the professional care we provide.
Nursing has an image problem.
It is an image of a profession in which educated, experienced caregivers are not given respect. It is an image of demanding work that is not adequately compensated. We must all work to change this image. We can start by respecting our own professionalism and insisting that others respect it too.