There is always a compromise. This is what I mean when I say I don't think there is only one way to achieve the goal. We need to make connections and we need to enjoy what we are doing to thrive. There is a quote I have always believed: “No man is an island.” While researching where it came from, I found the University of Adelaide Library online and learned that the phrase is actually a portion of a prose piece by John Donne called Devotions upon Emergent Occasions published in 1624. The message of the quote: “No man it is an island” in the prose says that every human being is part of a whole, of the world, and of each other that every human death or problem affects another (Donne, 1624). week, I believe a nurse's job is to care for the client and family holistically and this is best achieved if trust has already been established between the client/family and the nurse do everything