Although using our intuition as nurses can be very helpful, we cannot simply abandon it. We must investigate that patient, symptom or problem and justify our intuition with evidence so we can solve the problem. In the book "Thinking as a Nurse" by Bruce Scott, I really liked the story about nurses' intuition in chapter 7. The nurse was caring for a patient, when the patient's daughter and son-in-law come in to stay with her. He finished what he was doing and left, then immediately returned to the room. He returned to the room because he felt something was wrong with his son-in-law. He felt strange, his lips and tongue were swelling and he was breathing rapidly. Come to find out he had an allergic reaction to the shellfish and shrimp he had eaten earlier that evening. In this case the nurse had never met this man, he was not her patient, yet she felt something was wrong and investigated (Scott,