"There go my people. I must find out where they are going so that I can lead them." While there are undoubtedly valuable contributions that can be realized by incorporating nurses into primary care, why must the profession always try to position itself as "leaders"? I would rather see an argument that nurses would enhance function by becoming members of primary care teams and, moreover, acknowledging that the addition of other professionals (such as physiotherapists) would similarly add benefit. I feel that the nursing profession undermines the value of such ideas by embedding them in self-serving and ultimately self-defeating political statements.

"There go my people. I must find out where they are going so that I can lead them." While there are undoubtedly valuable contributions that can be realized by incorporating nurses into primary care, why must the profession always try to position itself as "leaders"? I would rather see an argument that nurses would enhance function by becoming members of primary care teams and, moreover, acknowledging that the addition of other professionals (such as physiotherapists) would similarly add benefit. I feel that the nursing profession undermines the value of such ideas by embedding them in self-serving and ultimately self-defeating political statements.