This paper will examine how nurse clinicians enhance ethics discussions among members of the healthcare team and positively influence the quality of patient care. In healthcare settings, ethical dilemmas can take the form of complex consultation-level issues, or may be smaller, more nuanced day-to-day dilemmas nonetheless impacting the wellbeing of patients. Whether the dilemmas are simple or complex, patients depend upon and receive care from a nurse. Nurses are educated with a focus on advocacy, a foundational moral concept from the nursing code of ethics, and they provide a necessary bridge between patients and other stakeholders. In discussing information and preferences with a patient, physicians and other providers may use the very best communication strategies, be empathetic and compassionate, and yet still struggle to fully elicit patient (or proxy) perspectives. The reasons for this are varied, and it is frequently the nurse, who has developed a trusting therapeutic relationship with the patient, who hears additional responses from them after the provider has left the room or after a time spent processing the conversation. Accurately identifying what to consider as being in the patient’s best interest is more likely when nurse clinicians are routinely enlisted as part of the team to provide these additional patient perspectives in the ethical discourse. Not only does this ensure representation of the fullness of the patient’s voice, but it also contributes to the moral integrity of a collaborative interprofessional team.