RALEIGH (August 20, 2021) – We’ve heard team-based care is increasingly important in health care – and it is.

But is there any question who spends the most time with patients, particularly in hospitals, nursing homes and assisted-living centers?

“Probably 99 percent of the time is nurse-patient contact,” Dr. Ann Marie Milner, Director of Nursing at Wake Technical Community College, says in the accompanying video.

“We’re there from the time they take a breath, when we start new life, until the time they go to heaven and they take their last breath,” Milner says.“So the nurses are really there.”