here to discuss the expanding role of nursing and the bigger healthcare picture we have judy schmidt who is the president of the new jersey nurses association doctor sheryl slonim chief nursing officer at holy name medical center melissa sirola is an adjunct professor in the department of nursing at caldwell university and finally maureen sweeney-mcdonough vice president of the administrative services for the newark community health centers i want to thank all of you for joining us. you know right before we got on the air and by the way there's gonna be a lot of great information in terms of the websites you can go to to get more information right before we got on the air i said you know the aca the affordable care act otherwise known as obamacare, it's expanded the role of nursing and some of you have said nurses have always been very important in fact in some ways >>[laughter] >>we're not in charge but we drive a lot of the healthcare system. fair to say? >>that's very correct >>talk about it >>i think nurses have really been at the forefront because we're the ones that take care o