Nursing, as a typically female profession, must deal constantly with the false impression that nurses are there to wait on the physician. As nurses, we are (36) to provide nursing care only. We do not have any legal or moral (37) to any physician. We provide health teaching, (38) physical as well as emotional problems, (39) patient-related services, and make all of our nursing decisions based upon what is best or suitable for the patient. If in any (40) , we feel that a physician’s order is inappropriate or unsafe, we have a legal (41) to question that order or refuse to carry it out. Nursing is not a nine-to-five job with every weekend off. All nurses (42) that before they enter the profession. The emotional and physical stress, however, that occurs (43) odd working hours is a prime reason for a lot of the career dissatisfaction. It is sometimes required that we work overtime, and that we change shifts four or five times a month. That disturbs our personal lives, disrupts our sleeping and eating habits, and isolates us from everything except job-related friends and activities. The quality of nursing care is being affected (44) by these situations. Most hospitals are now staffed by new graduates, as experienced nurses finally (45) trying to change the system. Consumers of medically related services have evidently not been affected enough yet to demand changes in our medical system. But if trends continue as predicted, they will find that most critical hospital care will be provided by new, inexperienced, and sometimes inadequately trained nurses.