In this International Year of the Nurse and Midwife, the Queensland Clinical Senate sat down with the state's Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer, Adjunct Professor Shelley Nowlan, the Director of Nursing and Co-Chair of the Division of Surgery at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Sean Birgan, and Townsville University Hospital's Midwifery Unit Manager of the Birth Suite, Sari Holland, to find out what it means to them.