This semester’s work revealed many ways that nusology knowledge and a nurse’s perspective differs from medical knowledge, complements it, and does not compete with medical knowledge.

Thinking about the new nursology ideas you’ve learned, please write a paper to defend the value of nursology knowledge contributions to an interdisciplinary discussion of a complex patient. Write your paper as a thoughtful personal/professional”letter” and use your letter to explain to a skeptical physician colleague, Dr.  Doubting Thomas, why nursology knowledge is as important to healthcare as medical knowledge, and why the two kinds of knowledge are complementary to each other, not competitive