“…However, I do agree that there are global shortages of nurses for the practice of what Watson (1996) calls nursing qua medicine . Nurses are, as most of us realize, ‘the largest single group of healthcare providers, and they oversee and deliver nursing care, which encompasses a significant portion of the care prescribed by physicians’ (Jones & Mark 2005, p. 271). As Registered Nurses perform so many medical activities, nursing qua medicine extends from those activities driven by physician orders for vital signs, dressing changes and medications to nurse practitioners substituting ‘for a physician in a range of predefined, protocol‐driven clinical tasks’ (Halcomb et al.…”