i worked as a nurse for many years.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care, training, and scope of practice. Nurses practice in many specialties with differing levels of prescription authority. Many nurses provide care within the ordering scope of physicians, and this traditional role has shaped the public image of nurses as care providers. However, nurse practitioners are permitted by most jurisdictions to practice independently in a variety of settings. In the postwar period, nurse education has undergone a process of diversification towards advanced and specialized credentials, and many of the traditional regulations and provider roles are changing. Nurses develop a plan of care, working collaboratively with physicians, therapists, the patient, the patient's family and other team members, that focuses on treating illness to improve quality of life. In the United States and the United Kingdom, advanced practice nurses, such as clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners, diagnose health problems and prescribe medications and other therapies, depending on individual state regulations.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I just got off work. I work as a Nurse in the ER."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Nurses practice many specialties within the field.  Do you have a specific one?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I work a registered nurse. Currently I work at a military hospital here in San Antonio. Mostly in the ICU."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Nurses have to develop a plan of a care to help work with the doctors, the patient, and the patients family."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Absolutely. A big part of my day is just talking to the patient's families. It's amazing how many people go to the ER everyday."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "In the US and the UK advanced nurses can prescribe medications and other therapies, although the details are regulated on state level."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I have to go through the doctor for most prescriptions although I heard in a long time ago we were able to prescribe Ultram or Tramadol to patients as needed."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Nurse practitioners are even permitted to practice independently in a variety of settings."}]