Anyone who’s spent time in a hospital knows that the heart of a patient’s care team is the nurse. That’s who shows up at any hour to adjust an IV, answer panicked questions, or simply sit at the bedside while a patient tries to make sense of what’s happening to their body . That proximity—physical, emotional, and constant—turns into something powerful: trust. “The doctor is treating the disease,” says Marlo Robinson, dean and vice president of Purdue Global School of Nursing, who has more than