Soft skills are needed to build interpersonal, caring, and connected relationships with patients and peers. These include skills such as emotional intelligence, compassion, motivation, empathy, collaboration, delegation, teamwork, leadership, time management, professionalism and communication (Lavender, 2019; Ng, 2020; Deering & Bal, 2023). Soft skills are intangible, more challenging to teach and more difficult to measure for effectiveness and competency (Vega & Hayes, 2019). While the technical skills of nursing are crucial to providing care, soft skills allow nurses to develop a deep understanding of patients and their needs to become better patient advocates. Soft skills allow nurses to build strong, caring relationships. Nurses can empower patients and facilitate positive outcomes (Preston, 2021). Nurses with robust soft skills can communicate and collaborate more effectively with the healthcare team. One example of an essential soft skill that nurses must become adept in is communication. Communicating with all healthcare team members ensures that the patient’s needs are addressed and met in a safe and timely manner. Communication can come from providing a thorough hand-off report to a peer, delegating to a nursing assistant, or sharing the care plan with the patient and their team of healthcare providers. Nurses can strengthen their soft skills with continued daily practice through observation, experience, and role modeling (Vega & Hayes, 2019). Additionally, educational courses and training on communication, teamwork, and leadership can further enhance nurses’ abilities to practice soft skills (Widad & Abdellah, 2022). Nursing is a fluid combination of both art and science — nursing is a scientific art. By combining clinical knowledge and skills with compassionate caring and connected relationships, nurses can provide safe, high-quality, effective, patient and family-centered care.