Back in 2009 Julianne used this column to raise the issue of the importance of language 'in the way we describe ourselves as nurses and midwives, what it is that we do and what that means to both ourselves and others'. Her assertion was that when attempting to define nursing or midwifery, or the role of a nurse or a midwife, the definition never seems to adequately address all that a nurse or midwife is, or does. We are not 'just a nurse' or 'just a midwife'.