At the 2016 Annual Meeting of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT), held in Valencia, Spain, Arno Mank, PhD from Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL talks about the importance of collaboration as a key to successful nursing research. Nurses should talk to each other and communicate how they handle their patients. Dr Mank recommends avoiding the not-invented-here syndrome and excessive competition in order to advance the nursing research.