If words are not carefully chosen or well understood, their message holds little meaning to very few. As the noise regarding workplace issues rises to a mind-numbing din, nurses need clear, meaningful messages," says Anna Atteberry, MSN-S, BSN, RN, a member of the South Dakota Nurses Association and a staff nurse at the Gregory Healthcare Center in Gregory, South Dakota. "Before determining how workplace advocacy strategies can be used by nurses, we must be clear about what these words mean.