Nursing is unique and we mustn't forget all the ways in which this is true.Medicine is almost always treated as 'the standard' against which other disciplines of healthcare are measured. But why should that be? What right has it earned to maintain that position beyond historical power hierarchies? Certainly contemporary evidence doesn't support that stance.You are an expert nurse. You are not a lower order version of medicine's implementation arm without prescriptive or diagnostic authority. And you're certainly not the punching bag for a medically-centered hospital system. You are an autonomous professional. Embody that and remember who you are and from where you came.