Every unit has that patient that the nurses decide "he's going to make it.". As a team, they analyze labs, tests, research treatments, etc. They find that one doctor willing to listen and present more facts than he wants to know and change the course of treatment for a patient. Believe me it is not easy to talk a cv surgeon into letting us prone a recent cabg patient with chest tubes, but we had the facts ready for him on safety and effectiveness. Nurses Announcements Archive Article