15. Nurses are pivotal to hospital quality initiatives. Due to the fact that most doctors are not hospital employees and most nurses are, any improvement into the quality of patient care usually involves nurses.
16. Nurses play a pivotal role in preventing Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs). You go to a hospital to get well, but there is a rise in serious diseases that are acquired during a patient’s hospital stay. As your primary caregiver, your nurse is most responsible (although not solely responsible) for seeing that you do not develop any of these infections.
