My mom who is an NP, (nurse then) used to say 20 years ago that the nurses are the "rememberers" and the doctors, the "thinkers". The most important job of the

My mom who is an NP, (nurse then) used to say 20 years ago that the nurses are the "rememberers" and the doctors, the "thinkers". The most important job of the nurse was to remember what was going on with each patient and get the doctors up to speed as efficiently as possible.