Like all healthcare professionals who work directly with patients to provide care and treatment, nurses play an important role in decision making. Nurses have to rely on their knowledge, training, and experience when making decisions regarding the right care and treatment for patients. Sometimes those judgements have to be made quickly, especially in acute settings. Nurses actively engage with the evidence and information they have at their disposal when making these critical choices. As a nurse, you have to be comfortable with the decisions that you make for each and every patient, knowing that they can make an important difference in healthcare outcomes for an individual.
