While using our intuition as a nurse can be very beneficial, we cannot rely on our intuition alone. We need to investigate this patient, this symptom or this problem and substantiate our intuition with evidence so that we can then solve the problem. In the book "Thinking as a Nurse" by Bruce Scott, I really enjoyed the story about nurse's intuition in chapter 7. The nurse was caring for a patient, when the girl and the the patient's son-in-law comes to join her. . She finished what she was doing and left, then immediately returned to the room. She returned to the room because she felt something was wrong with the son-in-law. He felt strange, his lips and tongue were becoming swollen and he was breathing rapidly. Come to find out he had an allergic reaction to the shellfish and shrimp he ate earlier in the evening. In this case, the nurse had never met this man, he was not her patient, but she sensed something was wrong and investigated (Scott,