The nursing field is ever-changing. The model is fluid and to be successful in this practice, one must be willing to update their previous thought processes and continue their education throughout their career. Two attributes of a professional nurse that will help them be successful are critical thinking and collaboration. Critical thinking is a skill that is important to every nurse. In the acute care setting, patients stability can change quickly, therefore being able to identify early changes in a patients well being could better their outcomes or even save their life. Nursing is more than just blindly following orders and completing tasks given by doctors, it is being the eyes and ears for the doctors. Nursing is assessing each detail
