ABSTRACT
This chapter tries to indicate that nursing is in a powerful position to influence not only the future of nursing itself, but the provision of health care in United Kingdom and abroad. Research in nursing practice in the United Kingdom has indicated that too often procedures and practices may be based on the unholy trinity, rather than on scientific assessment of effectiveness. Nurses must also make the case for the value of nursing and its distinctive contribution to health care. In so doing, they should articulate clearly the key values which underpin nursing. Some non-nursing academic staff in some institutions of higher and further education have had their own agendas and sought to impose their own subjects without adequate adjustment to the interests and needs of nursing students, and at the expense of subjects needed by nursing students.
