The later assessments in the nursing curriculum tend to emphasize professional identity and accountability in ways that earlier assessments do not. The nurs fpx 4065 assessment 1 asks students to engage with the ethical and legal dimensions of nursing practice at a level of formal analytical precision. Students who have a strong intuitive sense of professional ethics, developed through clinical experience, may find that translating that intuition into formal academic argument is more difficult than they expected. The thing they know seems to resist the form in which they are being asked to demonstrate knowing it.