Hey everybody, serious question here and I mean this with all due respect; besides the generic, we do everything answer what the nurses actually do like what’s the authority or where do they sit on the totem pole? Long story short is my wife is one of those nurses who thinks that no other job in the world could ever exist, and society would collapse if it was not for a nurse, don’t give me wrong. I know she works her butt off and I know she does a lot but she’s never been able to actually answer what she does when I ask like doctors and physicians prescribe and diagnose, surgeons, slice and dice etc; out of everything I’ve gotten it just sounds like nurses are the babysitters, or the caretakers that do the dirty work for everybody else. Now I know that that is not the correct assumption, but with no other insight, that’s the only thing I’m led to think of.

Can someone actually help me figure out what they do? I left the military and registered for nursing school thinking I could make a difference until my wife tells me that you have to ask permission for everything. She’s been a nurse for several years so she says that she is on the level with her team where she can just kind of talk to somebody about what she did but technically you have to get a sign off on a lot of stuff.